Guild Wars 2

I don’t have server pride, what I have is a bad PC in Australia with bad internet. I miss playing WvW but I can’t handle the population in WvW…

Need quiet servers or a tier with half the map cap population. Roaming tiers, small groups, not 80 man zergs causing my PC to freeze from across the map just because they clashed with another 80 man zerg.

I like pet builds for Sylvari Rangers…

2 x Hyenas, Rock Dog, Sylvari Hound and a few Flesh Reavers. The Sylvari Immobilize is also good in duels.

Also the Asura Golem when it was bugged, that was amazing watching it dump 100k attacks onto zergs.

Sounds crazy… But set up a few toons with different builds ready for PvP games….

So for instance, I have 4 eles set up, 4 Dh, 3 Nec and so on… Each with a different build.

Load into the map, look at team comp and enemy comp then select a class/build best situated for it. For ele, if they run condi heavy team and my team lacks heals, I play my Menders shout support Ele. If they have conditions but my team has a healer, I’ll switch to my D/D paladin Ele to help condi cleanse, do damage and give utility support while letting our healer do the healing. If my team is mostly thieves, I’ll play my selfishly built bunker ele and sit on far all game trying to pull as many 1v3 situations as possible.

If they run melee heavy I run static aura spam builds, if it’s range heavy then I use Magnetic Aura spam builds and so on….

Jeknar.6184:

sephiroth.4217:

Conditions might not last as long if they cleanse you say? Power might not hurt as much if they dodged…

Conditions can also be dodged and never applied in the first place just like direct damage can be dodged. However you cannot cleanse direct damage because it’s instant and not over time like conditions are.

sephiroth.4217:

So I’m really not seeing the issue about this damage reduction food nonsense, seems balanced to me. Starting to think OP might sit on openfield cannon siege with Seaweed food.

Honestly, I think we should be given more options than just the Seaweed Salad but I agree there is nothing imbalanced since there is already another food to counter it.

This could go on but while you can’t cleanse direct damage, power damage has to deal with weakness/protection/damage mitigation traits / skills and utilities… Conditions ignore all that. So to me that’s the power version of cleansing.

Jeknar.6184:

sephiroth.4217:

I don’t get how Rare Veggie Pizzas are ok but not damage reduction food. Isn’t this game favoring condition builds enough already?

Condition duration end up being useless if the conditions get cleansed before their full duration is reached. Besides, there are already counter food for condition duration such as:

Bow of Lemongrass Poultry Soup
-20% Condition duration
+70 Vitality

or

Loaf of Saffron Bread
Incoming damage reduced by 20% while stunned, knocked down, or knocked back.
-20% Condition duration

Conditions might not last as long if they cleanse you say? Power might not hurt as much if they dodged…

The food is the same situation.
Rare Veggie Pizza – +20% duration // Lemongrass – -20% duration.
Plate of Mussels – +10% damage reduction // Seaweed – +10% damage while moving.

So I’m really not seeing the issue about this damage reduction food nonsense, seems balanced to me. Starting to think OP might sit on openfield cannon siege with Seaweed food.

I want a tier of WvW where map cap population is halved for all sides just so I can have a lag free experience in WvW like I used too before Megaservers.

I don’t care if I sit in a 100 man que for that.

I don’t get how Rare Veggie Pizzas are ok but not damage reduction food. Isn’t this game favoring condition builds enough already?

draxynnic.3719:

sephiroth.4217:

draxynnic.3719:

sephiroth.4217:

Most people I’ve met in game don’t even know Ele can unload an Air Overload that pulsates Immobilize. Once you start figuring out those “combos”, all of a sudden the class is a lot more useful than you thought it could ever be.

If you’re talking about what I think you’re talking about, I’m not sure it’s worth the setup and fiddliness to actually pull it off. Cute when you do, though.

No it’s definitely not worth the set up outside of burn trolling or something…

Looks like I got it wrong anyway. I thought it was a matter of using Arcane Power with the Elemental Surge trait while in earth attunement, switching to air, and then overloading, but I was wondering if that actually worked so I gave it a try. Nope. Pulses blind instead.

Can use GoEP to pulse Cripple that way, though.

Close…

Fire Overload, switch to Earth and use the Arcane Power…. Immobolizes people in the Firestorm to stack burns, kind of useful for a Sage Amulet. Power/Condi application with intelligence sigils and Arcane crits.

Ele has lots of tricks up it’s sleeves and lots of builds, Paladin Ammy with Aura share with D/D and Surging runes is 20s uptime on static aura share. Absolutely brutal against anything with AoE or Melee heavy teams. (just an example)

Ele is hard to learn. after 4 years of the class I am still learning things about it. I would hate to see Ele fall into the DH trap tier of gameplay, boring and user friendly.

I’m salty they removed boosters…..

When you get a repair canister, a revive orb and a booster, atleast you could say “hey I got a booster”….

Boosters are always helpful.

draxynnic.3719:

sephiroth.4217:

Most people I’ve met in game don’t even know Ele can unload an Air Overload that pulsates Immobilize. Once you start figuring out those “combos”, all of a sudden the class is a lot more useful than you thought it could ever be.

If you’re talking about what I think you’re talking about, I’m not sure it’s worth the setup and fiddliness to actually pull it off. Cute when you do, though.

No it’s definitely not worth the set up outside of burn trolling or something…

Your first post was 10 months ago so you might have a level 30 scroll available.

Next step would be Tomes Of Knowledge.

Crafting 0-400 is about 7.5 levels last time I tried, it used to be 10 levels and it still might be for cooking/jeweler. (was 10 levels before ascended crafting)

I guess at this stage it’s what you prefer most, PvE or PvP or WvW. PvP and WvW have reward tracks with Tomes of Knowledge.

Alin.2468:

If something is limited, then most of the time is limited for 1 week. In that week there is enough time to buy gems with $$$ and that desired item.

A week isn’t enough time, it’s come and gone before the pay check hits my account. (paid fortnightly)

Also the gem store is going downhill. The conversion price for Gems to Gold is atrocious, I’m also another customer wanting to spend money, except I’m going to buy Nightfury and Incinerator… Just can’t until Anet decides to give a fixed price for gem to gold, 1500 gems for 250g is really bad. Should not have gone past 1000 gems for 250 gold.

That makes legendaries $150 roughly instead of $300-400 depending on the AUD/USD exchange.

Hammerguard.9834:

It actually wouldn’t be op.

condi, power, heal, vit would be op.
condi, heal, vit, power would be op.
condi, prec, heal, vit is not op.

get out my thread, most of you talk out your kitten .

Don’t post in a discussion forum if you can’t handle discussion or feedback.

but if this is a joke thread I guess mine would be “bring back celestial amulet or get out of my thread.”

Crinn.7864:

Just want a 1200 power, 900 condi, and 900 some random defensive stat amulet

Carrion.

Also condi/precision/vit/healing would be extremely OP to some classes offering way too much.

To an evasion thief that’s a lot of offense combined with defense, same to any condition druid. A berserker would spec into healing/condi shout build again just like the old settler styles. Condi healway bunker mesmers would come again and so forth but this time with chrono traits…. Yea, seems like a mess.

This years mask would have had a clown theme I bet…

Speaking of which, those Mesmer starting masks or oddly clown like.

Elementalist has a high skill high reward factor to it right now.

You can use about 6 Amulets currently that are viable (working on another build for Viper with the help of another Ele main), this Sage/Menders only thing is just an example of the Ele’s low skill high reward factor builds. There are MUCH better set ups if people knuckle down on the class and experiment a little.

Most people I’ve met in game don’t even know Ele can unload an Air Overload that pulsates Immobilize. Once you start figuring out those “combos”, all of a sudden the class is a lot more useful than you thought it could ever be.

As for Dagger Offhand – It’s a utility weapon more than anything.

Mesmer Glamour Bombs.

Mesmer Chaos Storm traits that did 70k damage.

Staff Ele Meteor Shower to Mist Form. Using Abilities in Mist Form.

Ranger before the buffs started with Longbow stealth. Then the class became “user friendly”.

Thief P/P Ricochet builds.

Vavume.8065:

sephiroth.4217:

Leaderboard Ranks: – WvW: 971.

What magic is this? :P

It may not be accurate but it’s https://gw2efficiency.com/

Create an API key here using “MY ACCOUNT”, you have full control of what you want to share. Head over to the site, put your API key in and from there you can view anything about your account.

You can search for items across your account, see how much each item is worth including your material storage, view your characters or look at your stats and compare them to other accounts. It can tell you your rankings according to your stats for almost anything.

I think anything related to crafting legendaries should be material storage.

Maybe infusions too….

Just a flesh wound.3589:

sephiroth.4217:

I fully support this.

I want to spend a couple hundred bucks just for in game gold…. Which isn’t going to happen until Gems to Gold conversion rate isn’t a rip off, 1500 gems for 250 gold is disgusting.

1000 gems for 250 gold is doable. With the price of ingame items constantly going up, doesn’t make sense to pay the same price for less gold. AFAIK, in the real world when this happens, people get a pay rise to help with the cost of living.

How does the OP’s suggestion of only real money for some gemstore items make the Gems -> gold ratio better?

I don’t want that ratio, I support the idea because we can skip the ratio and outright buy items. I like the concept proposed, not the exclusive part but the general idea itself is great to me. put some $$$ next to items, allow items to be bought with $$$ or just outright buy gold for $$$.

I know it’s not going to happen as the purchasing of Gems allows Anet to refuse refunds when items are changed, because we bought a currency and not an item. It protects them from consumer laws afaik.

Example would be: I bought heaps of gems to convert to gold to fully build a guild before HoT release, HoT changed the whole concept of guilds, stripped my guild to nothing and have to rework for everything I paid for. The catch here is I can’t get a refund on what I paid for because I paid for Gems. Gems being a currency controlled by players and nothing more.

IndigoSundown.5419:

sephiroth.4217:

I fully support this.

I want to spend a couple hundred bucks just for in game gold…. Which isn’t going to happen until Gems to Gold conversion rate isn’t a rip off, 1500 gems for 250 gold is disgusting.

1000 gems for 250 gold is doable. With the price of ingame items constantly going up, doesn’t make sense to pay the same price for less gold. AFAIK, in the real world when this happens, people get a pay rise to help with the cost of living.

You support the OP’s proposal?

You do realize that ANet would have to devote some of its store item staff to cash-only production? Why, that would mean fewer items for gems. Which would in turn mean less gold going into the exchange. That would lower the amount of gold you get for gems, not increase it.

No it wouldn’t.

He proposes a cash shop, something for people like me who have jobs and family who don’t want to grind or be at the mercy of others via gem/gold exchange.

I want a fixed price on gold, not one controlled by the richest game players. I want to spend hundreds of dollars on this game. I want to buy a legendary for $150 and not $450.

People can still have their gold to gem conversion and gem to gold conversion, people can outright buy gems for money and I would love to outright buy gold for money. I see why RMT’s attract such a large crowd in this game.

Nothing has to be demoted either. Nothing needs to be overthinked. It’s pretty simple. Allow players with money to spend money on the game.

Also having some items that are only obtained through real money is a great idea because this is a great game and it won’t survive as long living off the players who grind for everything in the gem store. If they could sell legendaries for fixed prices, that would be fantastic too! I would also pay $50 for invisible shoes, do you get the meaning of that sentence fully? I would spend $50 for an ingame digital item that no one can see. Currently gems to gold is controlled by players which means price inflation via greed.

The general idea of opening the floor up to people like myself who work and what ever to be able to spend more money more easily should be an idea worth looking into.

I have 2 bank tabs filled with ascended rings, 2 and half full armor sets and about 7 weapons. All from loot drops in WvW and PvP.

Drop rate is very low though, I might only get an ascended once a week to once a fortnight, mostly it’s rings.

I fully support this.

I want to spend a couple hundred bucks just for in game gold…. Which isn’t going to happen until Gems to Gold conversion rate isn’t a rip off, 1500 gems for 250 gold is disgusting.

1000 gems for 250 gold is doable. With the price of ingame items constantly going up, doesn’t make sense to pay the same price for less gold. AFAIK, in the real world when this happens, people get a pay rise to help with the cost of living.

JustTrogdor.7892:

sephiroth.4217:

Yes it tracks everything. Then it puts you in a ranking against roughly 90k accounts.

It doesn’t show your lifetime gem store purchase history (or gem store purchase history at all), as in every item you have ever purchased from the gem store, which is what the OP was asking about.

Shows a total a value but if this was off topic then I’ve deleted my previous posts if they aren’t helpful.

(also gems is a currency, when you buy gems, your just buying gems, a currency. what you do with that currency requires no further action as you purchased gems which is an ingame currency.)

WvW related one.

Svarty.8019:

sephiroth.4217:

People got salty the lord was being bannered. Made it too hard to take an objective.

WvW is EotM.

It’s natural to want to take the path of least resistance. WvW should be about beating defenders and all their clever tools. Sadly, these tools are a dwindling assortment consisting of arrow carts and more arrow carts.

I think the banner would give us more fun. THAT is why I propose bringing it back.

I’m 100% for the bannering of lords.

Just my 2 cents:

I agree that Legendary Armor should not be tied to raids, my only perspective about it is this: I still can’t join a raid group because people don’t accept “n00bz” or first timers.

Therefor that means I have to rely on the kindness of the internet to help me get my legendary. What an Oxymoron.

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

Redfeather.6401:

I wish we had a tonic closet, similar to the finishers one.
Add a tonic to the closet and it’ll show how many uses, just like limited finishers.

+1

+1

I hope Anet considers this idea.

As to OP: I like Tonics and Minis. I don’t like 20 Queens Janna’s or 48 Risen Balthazar Priests.

I think the reason DH is strong is not because of traps.

Ill start with the Pull: No other class has a viable pull, every other class that has a pull is still buggy after 4 years. DH doesn’t have to sacrifice ANYTHING to obtain that pull into the build. It also pulls multiple enemies.

Next is the passives: You can over stack stun breaking passives into your build that also give passive Aegis spam, which is more blocks. Those blocks not only block damage, but they heal, damage and remove conditions from yourself and allies. All passives too.

Shield of Courage: Blocks all incoming attacks even though it clearly looks like a portable reflection wall. (well to my bad graphics it does)

But I play at scrub levels, not pro levels. My Guard runs a Diviner Shout Guard lol

How about making skins and auras out of in game content that’s already there.

Take this Atmospheric Cloud for example, would be fantastic as an Aura item and not just a heart mission.

It’s also a great concept having those Spirit Weapons, but yea shame they aren’t that useful.

Since HoT power creep, A lot of skills dropped well below average. I’ve only just managed a way to make shouts viable again these last 2 weeks.

People got salty the lord was being bannered. Made it too hard to take an objective.

WvW is EotM.

DrDivine.5378:

sephiroth.4217:

DrDivine.5378:

sephiroth.4217:

Zerker Amulet – Arms, Defense, Berserker. Signet build for hunting DH or any class that relies on block.

Diviner Amulet – Discipline/Defense/Berserker. Focuses on Quickness and Resistance boon uptime, can stack minutes of resistance and have 6 seconds of downtime on Quickness.

Viper Amulet – Strength/defense/Berserker. Sw/Torch, Mace/Shield disruption burn build.

to name some.

Which one are you preferring so far out of the bunch?

Honestly I like all 3. Those are the 3 builds that my 3 wars currently have and I switch between Wars depending on the Enemy team comp.

If they have lots of condi, I play diviner because of the super stacking on resistance, if they have lots of Dh I play the zerk Amulet signet build which is stacked with unblockable attacks and if they have a messy team comp or lack of condi removal it’s the Viper war.

Can you link me the builds for all three? I wanna try them out, never even heard of the diviner one but it sounds neat

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJAURjMdQZI2GCWhAnIWyCMloWhLF8+ZDtrWkBQBIAA-TZQABAw+DAA

Left some parts open, need Divinier amulet but sigils I use blood/air. Doesn’t really matter tho.

Add me to friends if you’re NA and I can show you after work how the build functions properly, looks messy on paper.

DrDivine.5378:

sephiroth.4217:

Zerker Amulet – Arms, Defense, Berserker. Signet build for hunting DH or any class that relies on block.

Diviner Amulet – Discipline/Defense/Berserker. Focuses on Quickness and Resistance boon uptime, can stack minutes of resistance and have 6 seconds of downtime on Quickness.

Viper Amulet – Strength/defense/Berserker. Sw/Torch, Mace/Shield disruption burn build.

to name some.

Which one are you preferring so far out of the bunch?

Honestly I like all 3. Those are the 3 builds that my 3 wars currently have and I switch between Wars depending on the Enemy team comp.

If they have lots of condi, I play diviner because of the super stacking on resistance, if they have lots of Dh I play the zerk Amulet signet build which is stacked with unblockable attacks and if they have a messy team comp or lack of condi removal it’s the Viper war.

Zerker Amulet – Arms, Defense, Berserker. Signet build for hunting DH or any class that relies on block.

Diviner Amulet – Discipline/Defense/Berserker. Focuses on Quickness and Resistance boon uptime, can stack minutes of resistance and have 6 seconds of downtime on Quickness.

Viper Amulet – Strength/defense/Berserker. Sw/Torch, Mace/Shield disruption burn build.

to name some.

I hope Anet reads this post and put you under match manipulation which is a violation of game conduct and suspend/ban your account accordingly.

While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching

Que with people you meet in game. I have 17k ap or somethin and i que with people that havent reached 1k yet simply because they enjoy pvp like i do. Youre welcome to hit me up in game and join us, we even have a pvp guild thats used a friends list. We’re not all that good but we play purely for fun

Xillllix.3485:

sephiroth.4217:

Ele still has powerful DPS output. Just need to kite more, time dodges and hope someone doesn’t sneeze on you by accident.

It’s still less than what guards do with 10 times less effort and risk.

Trap guards are useless unless you’re pub stomping hotjoin or get matched against newbies. Infact I play trap guard once I’ve had too many drinks or if I want to watch a movie while playing the game, lay traps, watch movie, someone died, stomp, lay traps and watch movie again.

sophiewhite.3149:

sephiroth.4217:

Yes you can sell spots.

People used to charge others for Portals to vistas and JP, same goes for selling dungeon paths.

People sell wins in PvP, people also sell PvP potions to guilds and what not and PvP guilds buy shovels off PvE players… The world goes on.

difference is to sell a dungeon or jp or pvp potions you need to actually go get them. to organize a ab you sit still and watch lfg do the work for you. and when its over? youve still done nothing. dont fall for these lazy people. find a free normal one and do it.

I don’t see any difference to be honest, just for your example, the player doesn’t have the PIPS to sell either but yet people sell wins in PvP. People offer hundreds of gold for a whole division from what I’ve seen in map chat.

kin korn karn.9023:

sephiroth.4217:

Ele still has powerful DPS output. Just need to kite more, time dodges and hope someone doesn’t sneeze on you by accident.

Wow, that’s impressive. I don’t think I’ve ever received even half that much damage in a single match.

I’ve received more lol… Good thing a Marauder Ele can handle the pressure

Danikat.8537:

sephiroth.4217:

If Gems to Gold conversion rate drops to atleast 1000gems per 250 gold then I have nearly $250 for Anet regardless of balance changes.

From my understanding, in order for me to buy gems and create more gems for the game I need people who play for free to farm harder and convert gold to gems so the conversion rate is better.

Free players cannot use the gold to gems exchange. (They can buy gems and convert them to gold but they cannot do it the other way.)

But other than that you’re correct, the exchange rates are set by the number of transactions in each direction. So if more people buy gems with gold the price of gold will go down.

I don’t mean F2P, I mean your general playerbase who play for free after the initial game purchase. They have time to grind in game for gold to gems, I have to work so buying gems to get gold is the go to for me.

If Gems to Gold conversion rate drops to atleast 1000gems per 250 gold then I have nearly $250 for Anet regardless of balance changes.

From my understanding, in order for me to buy gems and create more gems for the game I need people who play for free to farm harder and convert gold to gems so the conversion rate is better.

The only issue I have with condi is that it can burst quicker than a damage build and still have no defenses to work past like you would on a power build with Protection, Weakness and a tonne of damage mitigation from skills like Rite of the Great Dwarf.

If protection/Weakness/damage mitigation worked against condi I wouldn’t have a problem with it or feel forced to run condi if in a group of 2 or less.

Ele still has powerful DPS output. Just need to kite more, time dodges and hope someone doesn’t sneeze on you by accident.

Yes you can sell spots.

People used to charge others for Portals to vistas and JP, same goes for selling dungeon paths.

People sell wins in PvP, people also sell PvP potions to guilds and what not and PvP guilds buy shovels off PvE players… The world goes on.

My suggestion….

Make Eternity and sell it. I did. By Making Eternity and selling it, you get to keep 2 legendary GS skins, even though you can only hold 1 at a time AND you get to buy a 3rd from the TP. So 3 Legendary skins from 1 skin sounds like a good deal right?

I thought it was when I ended up with Twilight, Sunrise, Bolt and Infused daggers in one day lol

I find staff to be very strong.

Pics have 600k to nearly a million damage. Don’t use Auto attacks, staff is not designed for Auto attacks, it’s for fast rotations and self sustaining fields/blasts.

Although I play mine with a Berserker or Marauder Amulet, it can still be used with Amulets like Sage.

Unranked is generally a steam roll between leagues…

Justine.6351:

Jeknar.6184:

There is no weapon that give enough expertise to be par with Giver Weapons in duration… Even Two-Handed Ascended weapons only have 118 Expertise which is roughly somenthing around 8% condi duration against 20% of a Giver’s weapon. Sure, you lose the condition damage, but you gain a quantity of duration far superior than any weapon.

and lose out on ascended weapon and more raw stats. but yay more condition duration when people are already capping it out without givers !

Not everyone builds the same…

One of my Engies uses Giver Weapons just to help stack the burns, uses Shaman/Apoth gear to bunk. So having that extra %20 duration has helped since Rare Veggie Pizza’s duration was cut in half and not all of my characters are privileged enough to have seen an Ascended item or HoT item yet.

Grand Avatar of Destruction.2537:

Oddly enough there seems to be a large arena like room in the obsidian sanctum that seems to serve NO purpose what so ever to my knowledge and the map itself is almost always deserted. That might be a good place to dual or do GvG without interference.

It used to be the GvG and duel spot till the game died out, oddly enough it was put in because people took up valuable PPT spots when it was organised south of the windmill on a borderland. Some commanders hated it so much they would roll zergs through there.

Now duels are mostly organic and happen when they happen, there is a common area that roamers can engage in and turn it into a dueling area but it requires 2 players of even skill. You won’t find a duel happening from a 1-3s fight.