Guild Wars 2

Frozen.1347:

sephiroth.4217:

It’s imbalanced because of player choice…

Players barely have a choice, if the want to stand a chance. If you don’t run a boon share/spam composition yourself, you will just get mowed down by meta zergs of the same size, regardless of how much boon strip you take.
And there is only one single way for some kind of mass boon remove and that’s lich form 5, a skill with huge cooldown (180 seconds) and very obvious animation, so easy to counter, and even if it can work, you still need boon spam yourself to keep the necros alive. Other boon remove skills are either single target only (even if you can spike someone down, he can get ressed instantly) and/or remove only 1 or 2 boons, so you have to be super lucky to get rid of the important ones that are covered by a bunch of other boons.

If you say so.

Lahm.7056:

Tyrx.2471:

Lahm.7056:

I thought I was at least worth a flame ram or a catapult..

Flame rams and catapults? Pssh. Golems is where it’s all at.

No kidding, one of my guildies got sieged stomped with an omega golem, I guess you can say there’s luxury in siege stomping too.

Not just siege stomping, but mid animation for stomps, use a tonic. Quaggan and Tree stomps be my favourite, especially tree cuz tree can’t be knocked back or feared.

zinkz.7045:

sephiroth.4217:

It’s imbalanced because of player choice…

Looking at this mathematically:

6 Mesmers:
5 are playing boon share, 1 is playing boon strip. This alone naturally creates the illusion that there is an imbalance as there are 5 mesmers overproducing boons for 1 mesmer to handle stripping alone, it does make it feel like it’s not worth it because you’re over shadowed by boon share.

Side note: There is plenty of boon strip roles, they produce less bags but there are option to play it if one doesn’t mind missing out on tagging more enemies and being mostly group support. It’s like playing the dedicated Water Elementalist, no bags but you know you’re being useful.

Even if you ARE the ONLY boon stripping person or boon corrupting person in your group, you can still be a royal pain by focusing the driver… Have you ever seen a driver go to push just as his stab was stripped?

Not really, there is simply vastly more boon spam in the game than boon strip.

Let’s start with the differences in skills, a lot of boon generation is AOE, where as really all you have for AOE boon strip is null field or well corruption, so generation > ripping in this respect.

Then you have that boon generation skills are far more common amongst the classes, outside of necro and mesmer you basically have nothing useful for boon strip (and even some of mesmer boon rip that can be used in PvP like the rip on shatter trait is useless in large scale WvW), where as every class has at least some easily available AOE boon generation.

Then you have the difference in application, take nullfield as you mention mesmers, it has a 32 sec cooldown, meanwhile revs for instance can pump out AOE boons every 3 secs, it isn’t even close, and let’s not forget you have each player’s personal boon spam on top of the AOE boon spam.

No one who isn’t terrible wants to focus fire the commander in a normal fight, it doesn’t make for a fun fight, well as fun as fights can be since HoT, also focusing one guy has no bearing on balance in large scale, that you have to single target to such an extent to make boon strip work, to overcome the ridiculous level of damage mitigation that is out there now, just shows how broken it is, and is also one of the reasons despite having a “melee” meta back that many wanted, players and guilds are still leaving the game, because if makes fights as boring as hell, it is basically the equivalent to the first season of PvP where bunkers bored everyone to death.

There’s a few more boon rips available to Mesmer that you forgot to mention and many other classes but that’s ok because it looks like your perspective is a general metabuild scenario in 60v60v55 threeway SMC fight, which would make us both right but in a larger scale.

25 players are playing the meta, 1 isn’t.
25 players playing boonshare – 1 playing boon strip, too much to handle 25:1 ratio

I thought it was mandatory to throw siege on everyone in WvW, including allies?

Then we should remove the Plague Signet!

Chris Cleary.8017:

There are active internal discussions pertain to issues that could impact RMT spam. We are always attempting to make the experience for our players better. Suggestions like a client side chat filter or a friend only whisper option only tackle the surface of the problem as players would have to enable those options. By doing so, they would become less social with the rest of the community and that’s not what GW2 is about. I understand that may be what some want, but I’d rather spend developer time fixing the core issues than adding surface filters.

A system like party chat.

2 way verification system from another perspective.

A Scenario:
Someone called “The Lone Ranger” tries to party you for a chat, you just saw them playing the game or know them through WvW or what have not, the fact is you recognize the name and have the choice to accept the chat/whisper.
Now “dfghjkkjhvfghjkjhgf” tries to add you for a chat, will you accept it?

which is a lot better than our current system:
The Lone Ranger: Did you kill Shadow Behemoth yet?
sdfghjkjhgfggggjkkjhgf: W W W . ############# . C O M buy lots of kitten with lots of discounts for low price guarentee best blah blah
sdfghhhhhgfdfghjkkjhgf: W W W . ############# . C O M buy lots of kitten with lots of discounts for low price guarentee best blah blah
sdfghjkjhgfdfghjkkjhgf: W W W . ############# . C O M buy lots of kitten with lots of discounts for low price guarentee best blah blah
Oddball: Nah not yet
sdfghjkjhgfdlllljhgf: W W W . ############# . C O M buy lots of kitten with lots of discounts for low price guarentee best blah blah
sdfghjkjhgfdfghjkkjhgf: W W W . ############# . C O M buy lots of kitten with lots of discounts for low price guarentee best blah blah
sdssssgfdfghjkkjhgf: W W W . ############# . C O M buy lots of kitten with lots of discounts for low price guarentee best blah blah

I get you don’t want people to be unsocial, but going “offline” is sometimes the best choice, and playing offline is no communication to your actual guild friends unless you’re in a party with them already, a party of 5/xxx guild members.

Of course this is spare time side project stuff, " but I’d rather spend developer time fixing the core issues than adding surface filters." –
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug in which downed players could appear to continue moving.

Awsome

zinkz.7045:

subversiontwo.7501:

Boon duration is directly countermanded by boon rips.

Wrong, because in WvW large scale there is massive imbalance between the amount of boon spam / boon duration available and the amount of boon rip, it wasn’t even balanced years ago when you had melee heavy meta when there was far less boon spam/duration which is why it was all about immobilize/chill back then.

SInce HoT boon spam/duration has gone through the roof, whilst boon strip has barely changed in comparison, so it is even less effective now.

It’s imbalanced because of player choice…

Looking at this mathematically:

6 Mesmers:
5 are playing boon share, 1 is playing boon strip. This alone naturally creates the illusion that there is an imbalance as there are 5 mesmers overproducing boons for 1 mesmer to handle stripping alone, it does make it feel like it’s not worth it because you’re over shadowed by boon share.

Side note: There is plenty of boon strip roles, they produce less bags but there are option to play it if one doesn’t mind missing out on tagging more enemies and being mostly group support. It’s like playing the dedicated Water Elementalist, no bags but you know you’re being useful.

Even if you ARE the ONLY boon stripping person or boon corrupting person in your group, you can still be a royal pain by focusing the driver… Have you ever seen a driver go to push just as his stab was stripped?

[oPP] Thief.
[FEAR] Thief.
[XOXO] Mesmers/thieves

Those are the ones that stick with me, always get a good fight from these guys. Decent fight with [oPP] thief last week that lasted minutes, left me shaking from adrenaline. No one won, we kept resetting on each other and trying to take different angles on attacking each other. The sorta kitten I live for in WvW, thanks for moments like these.

Evan Lesh.3295:

/fifteencharacters

Forget that. We need 1 or the other.

(I love admins with GIFS/Memes)

People still use plague signet?

Gaile Gray.6029:

stale.9785:

I do like the idea of not receiving whispers from people who aren’t mutual friends. That is a worthy suggestion, in and of itself, regardless of the gold selling scum.

Frankly, I would agree with those of you who feel that way, and I do see the value of that. In my line of work, it wouldn’t be the best thing. But for most players, yep, it’s something I believe could make a good QoL change.

But I wanted to ask a question: How would you build a friend list without whispers? Or maybe I’m more wondering how would you discuss adding someone, mutually, without whispers? Open chat?

There’s party chat.

I like the idea but not for gold sellers, sick of people in WvW and PvP whispering me because I have cheese build or no skill or what ever that needs to be said just because they lost/won.

dragonrage.8921:

I agree with leaving boonshare be , however I also agree with tuning down the buffs in wvw so you don’t have invincible zergs by default. Also its not the normal mesmer players, but mesmers that often abuse stealth, blinking and other movement and other sills that generate the nerfs so blame the abusers if you don’t like whats happened to mesmers. This is just the latest in the long line of wvw metas that get overused abused and therefore nerfed to the ground instead of properly balanced for the wvw application.

I have to ask… How does one abuse blinking?

Junkpile.7439:

ArchonWing.9480:

False dichotomy here.

Have you ever considered that those people might just be taking a break from running around? A lot of people encounter each other roaming and it’s just more convenient to meet up at a predetermined spot rather than just run around aimlessly hoping to get lucky.

Try giving this a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_

It can be useful to hone various skills which can be applied in more practical situations, aka getting better.

In a game that promotes zerging everything, I suppose people that seek some degree of self improvement in a game where the bar can be set quite low are quite the bane of its existence.

I have seen players who are 1 vs 1 monsters, but in real fight they are totally useless. So i could say that 1 vs 1 fights will lower your skill level.

Or you could say big zerg fights have unplayable FPS.

I’ve heard the same thing about me, I die on the first push cause my FPS drops to about 2-4…. Gimmie a duel or small scale fight at 30fps anyday.

Vorhees.1296:

Noticed over the holiday weekend that many of the world boss events, and Octovine were seemingly unbeatable due to lack of people playing. What’s up with the current dip in players online? Would have thought more folks would have played with the long weekend.

I haven’t really PvE since game launch…

Now I’m doing map completion for a Legendary and wow, the maps sure are empty.

I remember running through map completion the first time, before megaservers, there was always atleast 2-8 people in sight at all points of the day, always little groups running past you screaming odd things, now I’m lucky to see one person while completing a map.

Loathar.9375:

I don’t know if this is a thing or not still (Maybe fixed/changed?) because I have not seen this done to me in any match but…

Portal stomps….

Like, Anet how the kitten is this allowable? How is cleave damage going to affect THAT situation? Same goes for the thief teleport stomp…If anything needs some balancing………………

Portal stomps are legit.

So are Phase retreat > blink stomps, Judges intervention stomps, Blink stomps, Shadow step Stomps, Steal stomps, Infiltrator signet stomps, elixer s stomps, mist stomps and my favorite from a Necro: Spectral Walk > Flesh wurm teleport > Spectral walk teleport stomps or plague blind spamming stomps.

Another cool trick is from Mesmer: When stomping a thief, if you have a sword equipped, use skill 3 on the thief right as you stomp, when he teleports you can use your skill 3 to teleport with him. Illusion follows :P (saves you a blink if you’re that sorta player)
There’s more, but you get the idea.

HIlarious!!!!!!

“Rezzing a downed player” @ 1:46 makes me laugh everytime!

Falan.1839:

Another option would be to increase the effectiveness of poison against downed enemies, maybe even make the res of posioned downed players impossible.

Not a lot of people use poison on people who are getting rezzed. Poison is probably the main culprit behind instant rez skills not working too…

Best bet is an AH symbolic trap guard… Or maybe a thief but just play decaps. I’ve won so many games on thief just from avoiding fights and decapping. Without real bunkers, no one sits on point anymore. The moment you decap a point though, most likely 2-3 players will come so run run run.

Please remove the PvE crap from PvP, thankyou.

Otherwise don’t change Khylo, it’s the only map where I can go strait to enemy treb, kill the stupid map mechanic and just have a game against 5 other players with no PvE clutch bullkitten.

Better yet

How about fixing the clock tower? Camera angles get whack inside that thing because it’s so enclosed, people accidently throw skills on the roof and then there’s targeting and path obstructions from sitting near the windows.

Then there’s also unfair pathing that people can abuse with blink and many other skills that teleport you from GROUND FLOOR to the roof of clock tower.

Hammerguard.9834:

Fix your classes first. And I’m not even talking about balance, I mean build diversity. Give me terror necro and sword/dagger thief back.

Terrormancer is still a thing isn’kitten You just need to time skills a little better rather than spam fear and to rely on boon corruption timing a bit more.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

sephiroth.4217:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

sephiroth.4217:

The price won’t come down anytime soon unless supply is bumped up dramatically. Too profitable right now to place buy orders and wait a week to resell.

That doesn’t appear to be true: when the current events first started, the price dropped dramatically, even though there was little change to the supply — people feared a change to the supply and hoarders were willing to sell much more cheaply.

Right now, regardless of any faucets or sinks, buyers are willing to spend much more on the coins. As long as that remains true, the prices will continue to rise.

Put another way: buyers are much more impatient right now than sellers. However, sellers are still impatient: any small change could set off another set of panic selling.

I don’t understand why you say not true, then proceed to agree with what I said?

You said: “The price won’t come down anytime soon unless supply is bumped up dramatically.”

I said: It seems to be more about patience rather than actual supply. When there was an event that barely touched the supply, people sold at much lower prices.

I also said “Too profitable right now to place buy orders and wait a week to resell.”…

*was lol

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

sephiroth.4217:

The price won’t come down anytime soon unless supply is bumped up dramatically. Too profitable right now to place buy orders and wait a week to resell.

That doesn’t appear to be true: when the current events first started, the price dropped dramatically, even though there was little change to the supply — people feared a change to the supply and hoarders were willing to sell much more cheaply.

Right now, regardless of any faucets or sinks, buyers are willing to spend much more on the coins. As long as that remains true, the prices will continue to rise.

Put another way: buyers are much more impatient right now than sellers. However, sellers are still impatient: any small change could set off another set of panic selling.

I don’t understand why you say not true, then proceed to agree with what I said?

Izaya.2906:

http://i.imgur.com/EBwjLwz.png

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow…..

Here I thought Legendary items were legendary for having all stats available on demand.

Danikat.8537:

Ok, apparently I misunderstood. Here’s the quote from Chris Cleary:

Mystic coins
Chris Cleary writes….

Most of this price increase revolves around players that are pushing the value up due to the players willingness to pay more. If players are willing to pay more for an item, it’s going to keep increasing until eventually it hits a ceiling for the commodity. We’ve seen the same thing occur with numerous commodities over time.

Right now there is a consistent supply of mystic coins entering the game (way more than are being consumed) and churning through the trading post at a very slow rate. Most of the coins on the market are ones that have been flipped.

In retrospect, this is actually causing the daily login reward to be worth significantly more to players who wish to convert mystic coins to gold.

So the new sinks are increasing demand, but most of the price hike is actually due to people buying them up in order to make a profit from the increased demand.

Either way though the outcome for most people is the same: If you’re able to wait the price will almost certainly drop again over time.

Alternatively maybe talk to people in your guild/s and see if any of them would be willing to sell coins to you for a lower price? (Note: this will have to be done by mail so there is a risk of being scammed, but I assume you can trust your own guild mates, or use an intermediary.)

I know a lot of people who never use mystic coins and are often quite happy if they can do something useful with them instead of just selling them off when they no longer fit in storage. (When I’m not making legendaries I’m one of them. I’ve recently run out of coins for the first time in 4 years, and even then it’s mostly because I gave away or sold most of them. Didn’t know I’d be making a legendary so soon.)

The price won’t come down anytime soon unless supply is bumped up dramatically. Too profitable right now to place buy orders and wait a week to resell.

Karka Hatchlings.

Djinn.9245:

sephiroth.4217:

Torzini.1523:

Djinn.9245:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

This is a thread where a transgendered individual thanked ArenaNet for recognizing him or her in a positive and respectful way. That’s all. The OP never politicized it. It’s not a ‘political’ issue, but a reality one for them.

Please quit taking someone’s thank you down this road.

Some people can’t help but be negative.

Agreed. It’s pretty amazing, the number of people who instantly get offended when any small recognition is given to a group’s mere existence. Kind of sad, really.

I’m happy that you are happy, OP.

Kirschsahne.2081 wasn’t being negative. Only logical.

There’s absolutely nothing “political” about a gender… O.o

We’re not living pre-women’s liberation or in the middle east. Including all types of gender is simply reflecting the way the world is.

No, it’s political now….

Realistically this thread should have been closed the moment Anet received the thankyou rather than leaving this open out here like this. Very grey subject.

Rotteny.8743:

sephiroth.4217:

There’s no point ignoring the condi chrono in the room just because it’s broken. It still comes under condition builds and as you said, torment/confusion is low on the priority list of cleanses which makes it even deadlier.

Can’t say much for the warrior vs mes thing, to me Warrior has always excelled in condition cleanses even with just Cleansing Ire and Berserkers Stance.

Ikr, it’s like the 8th time I’ve linked it to you now hahaha

I’ll stop tho, you took it as a joke the rest of the time.

What I mean when I exclude it from my opinion about condi builds is: I don’t mind condi builds these days except for the condi chrono which have a heavy application of the anti-play conditions. I’m not sure however how I would tone it down without making it completely useless compared to the other condi builds. I would at least revert the confusion change to it only tick when you use a skill. That passive tick on confusion is kittened and only needed in PvE.

And yeah, Cleasing Ire and Brawler’s Recovery along with resistance from Berserker Stance and Healing Signet (when it need to be used) make warrior very strong against most condition builds. And Longbow Burst activate both Cleasing Ire and Adrenal Health regardless if it hit a target or not. I also put some mango pies for extra regen flavor but I could go with condi or dmg reduction foods aswell.

Oh and don’t bother with the screenshot. I was wondering if you were trying to annoy me with it so I decided to “take the bait”. Seen it wasn’t the case.

Nah the screenie as I said in the PM was just that joke from like 8 months ago from gw2wvw.net…. It’s the only one I got of you guys from the challenge.

Completely agree on Mesmer too as much as I love the class it needs a massive nerf bat to some of it’s mechanics.

Rotteny.8743:

sephiroth.4217:

And I summed up at the end why I love my Viper Mes.

Viper mes has no “burst”… It’s just passives and shatters and stealth. It’s continued application or 10+ stacks of torment/confusion. I believe you’re an avid Mesmer player and would know this?

And that’s why every time I talk about condis not being all that bad as everyone claims I always keep the Condition Chronomancer out. It’s broken. But honestly, the big deal with mesmer is the fact that both of the condis they apply are counter play. If you act with confusion you die. If you run with torment you die. And both of them seen to be very low in the cleasing priority. In fact confusion seen to always be the last, except for bleed.

sephiroth.4217:

Anyway, what I posted is what I can see after 4 years of watching WvW evolve with 27 characters. Others will see differently, I know personally if I’m having a bad time roaming I will always seek out condition builds for easy wins. Trapper apoth/shaman thief right now being the go to or viper mes.

Yesterday I was testing how long it would take to a condi mesmer (no chrono) to kill my GS/LB core warrior. Honestly I just walked away after I saw that my food ran out. I don’t think he would be able to finish it. But since people rather complain about condis than building to fight them yeah, I supose that’s a good choice.

sephiroth.4217:

I also got a pic of you guys when I played my condi perplex shaman/settler Elementalist build back in the day

“You guys”? I see 2 [SotD] players that I don’t know/regonize and TibbsDelTelTel in his mesmer which he plays once in a blue moon. Btw, this isn’t the first time you link this screenshot as a reply to me. You want to hear a “good job!” I guess?

sephiroth.4217:

Conditions OP! I’m an avid hybrid condi player, so it’s not like I’m power complaining about conditions, its more like I’m a condition player and those are my reasons, I’m not going to fight a system that clearly gives an advantage to condition players. I’m going to adapt and evolve with the game to exploit it as much as possible.

Well, if everyone decided to adapt we wouldn’t see all these cries about condis tbh… I see several solid power builds who can outlast condi bunkers. The boon spamming meta allow power builds to be much more effective than they were before. People that keep dying to condis are people who refuse to play a proper build to fight all kind of adversity they may find. They say they will “lose DPS” doing so. Well, dead people don’t do any DPS…

There’s no point ignoring the condi chrono in the room just because it’s broken. It still comes under condition builds and as you said, torment/confusion is low on the priority list of cleanses which makes it even deadlier.

Can’t say much for the warrior vs mes thing, to me Warrior has always excelled in condition cleanses even with just Cleansing Ire and Berserkers Stance.

Ikr, it’s like the 8th time I’ve linked it to you now hahaha

I’ll stop tho, you took it as a joke the rest of the time.

I could be mistaken but I’m 100% sure I got mine from a PvP track somewhere…

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mordremoth_Cache

No RNG, hope it helps.

Rotteny.8743:

sephiroth.4217:

2.
Most condition skills are applied with one button, a passive or it’s inbuilt into Auto Attack skills.
Most power builds rely on timing, setting up the burst or a combination of skills to perform correctly.
-Condition builds are easier to play, require less thought.

Condition applied by auto attacks normally are low duration to even be effective. It’s like auto attacking in a power build. And considering a full zerker Revenant for exemple can do 4k crits with a 1200 range auto attack, I don’t think they are weak compared a 4s bleed from necro scepter.

Unlike the popular beliefs, condi builds also have a “burst” and a “downtime” like power builds. If you think you can just equip full dire and go 1111111111 you’ll find yourself dying a lot.

And I summed up at the end why I love my Viper Mes.

Viper mes has no “burst”… It’s just passives and shatters and stealth. It’s continued application or 10+ stacks of torment/confusion. I believe you’re an avid Mesmer player and would know this?

Anyway, what I posted is what I can see after 4 years of watching WvW evolve with 27 characters. Others will see differently, I know personally if I’m having a bad time roaming I will always seek out condition builds for easy wins. Trapper apoth/shaman thief right now being the go to or viper mes.

I also got a pic of you guys when I played my condi perplex shaman/settler Elementalist build back in the day

Conditions OP! I’m an avid hybrid condi player, so it’s not like I’m power complaining about conditions, its more like I’m a condition player and those are my reasons, I’m not going to fight a system that clearly gives an advantage to condition players. I’m going to adapt and evolve with the game to exploit it as much as possible.

Jim Hunter.6821:

sephiroth.4217:

4.
A condition built player takes condition, stun breaks and something else.
A power built player takes condition removal, condition removal, all traits to condition removal and will still die to passive condition application.

so you’re saying a condition builds is immune to conditions and doesn’t need to bring condition removal?

Also there are plenty of power builds in the game that don’t require you to go full glass due to traits, sigils, boons, etc. making up the missing stats. There are also plenty of condi builds that require crits or +condi duration to be effective.

No I didn’t say that, it was a nice try to put words in my mouth, and you are correct about applying conditions with crits, I thought I had that covered under “passive application”…. I also said “and something else” which could be a condition cleanse but most likely a condition transfer.

Oh and I could totally play a viable Sentinel Elementalist, doesn’t need to be full glass…. Hopefully I don’t need to spell out what I’m implying there for you…

EnderzShadow.2506:

Prince Vingador.8067:

And why do they afk?
Just had 2 games in a row where i got players insulting me with racist commments.
I win them 1v1 or in team fights and they whisper me after insuling me.
Then i get them in my team next game and they just keep going on and on.
When is enough really enough and a player should just sat kitten it and stop playing?
Why are players alowed to insult others and get away with it?
Im talking to players like helseth for exemple that kid thinks hes the best in the world and insults players 24/7 .
Ofc in real life they wouldnt even talk back at u that nerd.
Problem is at least for me that i really hate bullies i really do and thats one one the reasons that im a martial arts instructor.
So i get so kittened at this kids writing all this racist remarqs and nothings gets done about it.
But if u stop and u afk cause of this kids then u are the reason pvp sucks and afm players should be banned and all.
But why not ask why they afk?
Game is 300- 20 no caps why are the players not alowed to afk?
There is 4vs 5 no caps why are we not alowed to afk?
Some 1 is insulting u and your family why are we not alowed to afk?
Its easier to blame the afker right ?
I sent loads of messages sreens emails, about certain players , but i still get them in my team.
I know u all pros and u all think u can insult every one and every one should just kitten and take the insults.
I just want to say that bullies never gained anything vs me in real life and will never gain anything in the game by beeing like that.
I do my best even tho im not a pro player i reached legend all seasons soloing in the first 2-3 weeks, so i really dont tolerate insults or racist remarqs of any kind.
Gl with your video game

Helseth is better than you, that’s for certain.

And how do they insult you with racist comments?

Being Pro in GW2 is like being the star of a little league touch football, not many people take what they say seriously, it’s more of a laugh.

As for abusive people, just block them and keep enjoying the game as you see fit. (obviously don’t afk in ranked, we’re already bleeding players due to Anet, don’t need playerbase contribution too)

I’m a casual player. I have friends, family and dependants.

This “Casual” game has already sold itself it me because it was advertised as “casual”…
I can level up a character to level 80 in 20 minutes with tomes then get out there and enjoy the game, no grinding or chore like work. You won’t find me in raids or new maps unless the game itself forces me there, eg: acquiring OP HoT stats

10/10 GW2 awesome game to relax and feel like a God with very little time and effort invested into it. – Reaper Alim.

Jayne.9251:

apharma.3741:

Jayne.9251:

I remember when everyone laughed at my poor original condition Mesmer. They scoffed at the build. Lol.

You know, I’m now on an opposing server to you. Most definitely not going to entertain the possibility of duels after this comment.

Awww c`mon! I haven’t played in months, I’m total crap now. You could down me easily.

Sniff.

My point was that I used condi build at launch of GW2 and while it wasn’t optimal, it fit my playstyle. And everyone was like “you’re using condi on a mesmer?!!” … and now I find it mildly amusing that’s all people run now.

To be fair, glamour confusion bombs were OP.

(even better was the traited chaos storm bug jumping off towers onto people below for 50k damage)

Multiple reasons:
1.
Condition damage comes from condition damage, that’s the only stat need which means the other stats go into defense.
Power damage NEEDS power/precision and ferocity, that leave no room for defense.
-Condition damage requires less to build effective.

2.
Most condition skills are applied with one button, a passive or it’s inbuilt into Auto Attack skills.
Most power builds rely on timing, setting up the burst or a combination of skills to perform correctly.
-Condition builds are easier to play, require less thought.

3.
Condition builds are not effected by any boon except resistance.
Power builds are effected by Protection and Weakness, which decreases over all output damage. Condition builds are not.
-There’s more DPS output from condition builds in general.

4.
A condition built player takes condition, stun breaks and something else.
A power built player takes condition removal, condition removal, all traits to condition removal and will still die to passive condition application.
-Power creep has heavily favored condition builds and passives/blocks. Passives and blocks don’t stop conditions from ticking.

There are more reasons, but it’s mostly a case of low risk high reward builds.

Example: You can hit someone with 14 ticks of burn then stealth/invuln and block till they die on a condi build or you could bust your kitten off landing hits onto someone with protection while they dish out aoe passive weakness onto you forcing you to disengage and reengage over and over. Why do all that when you could have ended the fight with a burn stacking and blocks?

In saying all that, it’s why I like Viper Mesmer so much. (full cheese PU/Manipulation/shatter)

I have it happen at least once or twice a game and everytime it works to the enemy favor.

Kirschsahne.2081:

If someone asks me they should keep politics completely out of a video game.
This reminds me of the guys that was offended by one of the free armors becuase it looked like it had crosses all over.
These things go pretty ugly fast.

The next person wants a black transgender… then an asian transgender in a male body
with female hair and a quaggan lower body. Soon we end with ghost marrying horses.

Like i say, they should keep politics out of a video game.

That was risky…

But yes, I’m sure there was a lot of people who agreed that Earthling problems should have been kept out of Tyria. It ruined immersion into the game being reminded of real world problems.

On the other hand,

It’s great for people to feel welcomed in Tyria, as Earthlings haven’t quite accepted how to let others live their lives yet.

How about the PvP lobby being open PvP?

Weighing up the options, no.

Play unranked, there’s no incentive to sit in ques for ages then to play with foul players in ranked unless you’re grinding for a legendary.

Just enjoy the game in unranked or elsewhere.

How come I’m never in the QQ videos?

You guys gank me all the time 6:1 and you were chasing me from sentry to sentry last night on my zerker necro lol

Also hi to your mesmer that chased me without having the rest of you
(that was actually a decent fight until my zerg rolled you over)

This is from Wiki:

Endurance is the resource used to dodge incoming attacks to evade them. The endurance pool is shown as a yellow bar just above the health orb.

Each dodge requires 50 endurance, meaning that most characters (who have 100 endurance) can dodge twice in a row; the exception is the thief elite specialization the Daredevil, who has a total of 150 endurance. Endurance regenerates over time, at a base rate of 5% per second and a max rate 10% per second.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endurance

I’m not 100% sure but I think it stacks but it stacks like damage amplifiers…

Damage multipliers combine in a multiplicative fashion rather than additive; i.e. they stack on top of each other instead of being calculated separately. For example, the Superior Sigil of Force (5%), Superior Sigil of the Night (10%), a 10% trait, a 20% trait and the (6) bonus of the Superior Rune of the Scholar (10%) combine for a final damage bonus of 1.05 * 1.1 * 1.1 * 1.2 * 1.1 ? 1.677 or approximately 67.7%.

Also from wiki
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Damage_calculation

Have a search on wiki, you might have more luck than I did.

General Health.9678:

sephiroth.4217:

It’s guild wars 2, its a fashion war. If you remove peoples ability to flaunt it here, then there’s another game they can go flaunt it on so to speak.

It is guild wars 2!
It isn’t a fashion war!
I already have my graphics turned down, I already can’t see your stuff.
A slider would let me bring the environment back.

How do you even have a fashion war? Makes no sense. How do you fight a particle effect? With a dye channel? So confused.

It says in your signature “Legendary questing”….

Anyway, refer to the rest of what I said before you quoted things out of context and you’ll see you I don’t care if it’s implemented or not, if wings can give FPS problems and such then so can Legendaries and other player effects. I even said I would use it IF it actually did give FPS problems.

Your guild also has a lot of shiny pictures, nice website btw. Funnily enough the best picture was everyone naked at the bar.

Heibi.4251:

A Half Black – Half White tag.

+1

15 charrs to fix a thread

MoarChaos.8320:

sephiroth.4217:

How would people feel if Anet removed visuals from legendaries, chak eggs the bee item and poly luminescence items?

They ruin immersion, hard to see and blah blah blah too? Or do people get to show them off because they’re worth more?

It’s guild wars 2, its a fashion war. If you remove peoples ability to flaunt it here, then there’s another game they can go flaunt it on so to speak.

I see most people arguement is “but i cant see in a JP”….. Have you guys tried like, waiting for the guy with wings to move on? You don’t have to run ontop of a norn with wings to do a JP, you CAN wait for them to move or better yet, zoom all the way in to first person mode and run strait through them….

I swear. What don’t you get? You’re forcing something on others. How is that ok to you? We are in no way forcing something on you by asking for this. As you will have no way of knowing if we have the setting on! So allow me to address all the points in your “argument”.

First point: People who want to be more immersed in the game shouldn’t have any say in what’s included in their game, as they are second class citizens to people with legendary skins and auras. What they have to say doesn’t matter “blah blah blah blah”.

Second point: Guild Wars 2 is fashion wars. It’s a requirement that everyone be apart of it, and that no one feels a disturbance in the fashion force by getting a slight feeling that maybe someone can’t see their skins. Otherwise players will all leave to a new game because they somehow know people can’t see their skins in their client side options.

Third point: Have you guys tried just waiting for the person blocking the view of a ledge in a jumping puzzle with their wings to move? Yes, someone mentioned the exact scenario as a problem. There’s nothing you can do if they’re afk as no matter what setting you put on in pve the wings blocking the view will still be showing.

So please just quote this last part if someone again brings up the fact that, because they earned it everyone should be forced to see it. And people arguing against, you need to answer this and stop putting your hands over your ears.

How will you know someone has the toggle on if it’s implemented? And how does that effect you in anyway? They already didn’t care about your skin if that’s the reason they’re turning it on.

lol you must have typed this on pure emotion because you’re the one who doesn’t get it buddy.

Before you try cramming your opinion down my throat as my own let me be very clear about this. I do not care if this option is implemented or not….

My view point is purely based on what is here on this thread with very simple logic applied. Eg: “Wings make me lag and particles”… LOGICALLY speaking it should also apply to legendaries, chak eggs and everything else. THAT’S IT!!!!! Logic.

As to your points:

1. Incorrect. We all paid for this game, we all get to play how we want. People can be immersed as much as they want to be as much as the next guy running naked through the snow with Quip.

2. I completely agree, hence my logical stand point should be applied to all areas and not just wings. people worked really hard for their wings as much as someone else working for Sunrise. If it wasn’t a fashion war, we would all be wearing standard character models. Everything in this game is revolved around “grinding” for a cosmetic item. Why discredit someone because they made Ascension instead of The Moot?

3. I said this exact solution already in the thread earlier, suggested to move through people or go to first person mode.

As to the last few parts of what you wrote, refer back to point 2. In a game where everything is based on grinding for flashy items, people should see it. Doesn’t matter if it’s The Ascension or Sunrise, remember this is a MMO and not a single player game.

Again like I said, I don’t actually care if the option is implemented, just apply it to all areas and not just the wings, it’s only logical based off this thread and IF wings can make people lag and IF an option was added to disable wings/legendaries/particale effects for the sake of FPS I would most likely use it.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

sephiroth.4217:

How would people feel if Anet removed visuals from legendaries, chak eggs the bee item and poly luminescence items?

They ruin immersion, hard to see and blah blah blah too? Or do people get to show them off because they’re worth more?

It’s guild wars 2, its a fashion war. If you remove peoples ability to flaunt it here, then there’s another game they can go flaunt it on so to speak.

I see most people arguement is “but i cant see in a JP”….. Have you guys tried like, waiting for the guy with wings to move on? You don’t have to run ontop of a norn with wings to do a JP, you CAN wait for them to move or better yet, zoom all the way in to first person mode and run strait through them….

Again why does it matter if everyone has to see your infusions/Particle effects / ridiculous back piece?

If they added in the options for players to disable those t would have no affect on you, these block more than just JPs, it clutters screens and obscures important visual Queues in WvW against players, it obstructs visuals in boss fights and so on.

Why should players be forced to see these things if they do not want to? What makes you so special to force your decisions and fashion choices on to other players gameplay?

Since these suggestions will not impact you in the slightest if they are implemented.

It honestly doesn’t bother me because I help myself, if someones wings are in the way, I find a way around it.

What I’m saying is, if they add the slider to back packs, it should also apply to legendaries, chak eggs, queen bee and poly luminescence items based on the arguments presented in this thread, should it not? Of course I’m only looking at this logically.

(on a side note I agree, im a selfish person and if I see a chak egg sak blurr past I would love to hide that effect because I know I will never get that item therefor I don’t want to see it, I’m childish at times too)

How would people feel if Anet removed visuals from legendaries, chak eggs the bee item and poly luminescence items?

They ruin immersion, hard to see and blah blah blah too? Or do people get to show them off because they’re worth more?

It’s guild wars 2, its a fashion war. If you remove peoples ability to flaunt it here, then there’s another game they can go flaunt it on so to speak.

I see most people arguement is “but i cant see in a JP”….. Have you guys tried like, waiting for the guy with wings to move on? You don’t have to run ontop of a norn with wings to do a JP, you CAN wait for them to move or better yet, zoom all the way in to first person mode and run strait through them….

This is my first MMO and what not.

I spent days farming white and yellow moas, running away from cave spiders and trolls and was stuck on the same map until someone messaged me about joining a guild….

I joined Warriors and Rebels [WaR], they explained that I could leave the starter map and that killing whites and yellow mobs actually did nothing.

As someone mentioned above: The first run through Orr to get to the ARAH wp was like running a gauntlet.

Then someone said “have you tried WvW?”…. First time WvW, got creamed over and over, maxed out a ranger then forever stayed in WvW/PvP.

Seera.5916:

sephiroth.4217:

Other players effects don’t bother me and if they do it’s my FPS so I just drop the graphics a little till everyone is standard models.

Probably WvW issues, the very few world bosses I’ve done I don’t see anything except lots of skill effects.

People with not the best computers would see it in PvE.

And there’s also jumping puzzles to consider with regards to large backpacks.

And standard model (without having to tank graphics) in open world PvE would help with the large charr/norn problem. Just like I turn off ground shaking when I’m doing jumping puzzles, I’d turn on standard models if I could. The game’s too pretty on my system to tank my graphics.

Yea like I said, other players backpacks don’t bother me….

I don’t do JP unless I have too and when I do it’s always 1st person mode so I don’t see wings and if there is someone else with wings again it doesn’t bother me, they are faster at JP and will have run past me.

I really don’t see other players backpacks as a problem, given I’m mostly in WvW or PvP all I see is skill particle effects and the very few times I do pve it’s the same there, lots of players skill effects.

(Actually the only back pack that bothers me is the “beep boop” one that talks every 5 seconds but I fixed that by muting the game and turning up media player)

In the name of sharing pretty outdoor pictures….

And yes, this place exists. Rainbow Mountains – China.

Other players effects don’t bother me and if they do it’s my FPS so I just drop the graphics a little till everyone is standard models.

Probably WvW issues, the very few world bosses I’ve done I don’t see anything except lots of skill effects.