Guild Wars 2

2/10 atm…

PvP: 10/10 due to having elites unlocked.

All people want is the elite specs they paid for…. That’s it.

Skye.4983:

And I don’t understand how people like you can press a button endlessly and get joy out of it as long as they can watch some progress bar go up.

“We don’t make grindy games — we leave the grind to other MMOs.”

You know who said that? President of Arenanet, when talking about the design philosophy behind GW2. You know what else he said?

“GW2 doesn’t fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn’t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun.”

People are mad because this expansion is everything GW2 is not supposed to be.

Here are some links for you, in case you want to look it up yourself:

http://www.guildmag.com/mike-obrien-on-monetization-of-guild-wars-2/
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_Design_Manifesto

Research Consumer Laws, then apply this post to it. Scary huh?

on topic: I’m honestly annoyed I paid for new class mechanics to enjoy in the new content, I’m also feeling punished for buying so many character slots…
There is nothing to do about it though, Anet want to show us their hard work so much they locked it behind content….

on a side note: for once PvE is entertaining as a solo player, wish I had elite specs to mob hunt with, but that will have to wait another 14 hours? or how ever long to unlock my 1st weapon on my 1st toon out of 17 or so…

7 hours in as a solo player:

20 hero points unlocked, level 2 on the bottom bar, still can’t use any class mechanics I paid for to enjoy in the new content.

So far I’ve unlocked 20 points in the jungle solo, I’m usually a solo player for WvW scouting or PvP, but here I am in the jungle unlocking my first elite out of 17 toons…

I have spent nearly 7 hours in the jungle now, can I use my greatsword on my necro yet? Nope… Can’t even use reaper skills or anything I paid for in terms of class mechanics to use in the new content..

/endrant.

Can I get hero points for elites outside of HoT map?

Has anyone unlocked their elite and how long did it take?

If you have unlocked your elite, how?

What is your best bit of advice about hero points towards newer players or those who don’t understand PvE?

For once they have made PvE enjoyable, it’s a shame it’s over shadowed by the grind of getting elite specs, I just want the mechanics I paid for to be unlocked to enjoy the content to it’s full extent.

SkiTz.4590:

How has this not been obvious already?

Anet doesn’t generate revenue with subs. It has to have other means of income.

This is where it comes in… it makes logical sense to entise players to BUY the xpac….

At the end of the day, Anet is a business, and they need income to operate it.

They will do whats best for them, its a business decision.

They don’t give a crap that core game players are HILARIOUSLY left behind in terms of making progress in GW2….

All the good money making strategies are now tied behind HoT…(raids and fractals, SW will be chump change compared to the new HoT Map rewards)

Want a more diverse and potentially BETTER spec to PvP/WvW with? pay up and buy HoT for elite specs… otherwise, you will get roflstomped in PvP/WvW by better specs.

its a cheap move, no doubt, but at the end of the day, anet is a business. They value THE PAYING CUSTOMER. NOT THE FREE.

The paying customer has the core game unlocked genius, or did you forget a lot of us paid over $60 for the original and another $50 for HoT…

I don’t even fractal, but fractals are apart of the base game and have been for 3 years, it is not HoT content.

Trapper rangers with 3 traps are good for trolls…

When I’m bored I run a rabid/carrion 3 trap ranger, drop 3 traps, by the time someone hits them your CDs are done so drop the next 3 traps and a Bonfire for double burn stacking and lol as your pet does the rest

By mid game, some players figure out to activate traps or range you though so it becomes useless as the game progresses

Laosduude.1690:

Do people even play games to build up their characters anymore? Guess not, lets get everything on a silver platter.

It has nothing to do with that at all in the slightest…

You enjoy games for a reason just like others, your reasons will differ from others and your playstyle also differs, what you might find fun aka: grinding for mechanics to a class and building your character, others wont, they just want the mechanics to use strait away so they can get stuck into the game play and have fun enjoying the game the way they like to play.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

sephiroth.4217:

Entitlement Thread ahead.

Can players/buyers of HoT atleast have an option on if we would like to grind elite specs? That way, people like myself who work and have family commitments can still enjoy the game for being a game and let us use our elites like everyone else, while those who enjoy grinding can go grind for it?

I agree with you. There is a legion of players who agree with you. But regarding structured PvP you will have everything unlocked. You’ll have acces to the elite specs. For WvW you will have to earn it through hero points. If you play GW2 mostly for WvW yes you essentially bought an expansion that you will have to invest hundreds of hours in to be able to enjoy any new play mechanics.

Looking at it from a high level thei decision had to be made based on maximizing monetization of the cash shop. Forcing players to grind so they would have incentive to buy boost items in cash shop. Perhaps this is how they are paying for the F2P accounts by taking from the rest of us? I’m not sure but it seems that way

You have zero chance at suing them. In fact you can’t do that according to the term of use. Bottom line is it’s a product. You aren’t happy with it return it and I do imagine if you asked ArenaNet for a refund you could get them to do that, but I’m not sure.

It’s possible you could find some attorney out there will to take up a class action lawsuit and reference all the hours you put into it, but I honestly think it would never make it to court and even if it did you would not win because they haven’t broken any laws.

What they have done is conceal this vital piece of information until right before launch. A big “surprise suprise casual players, but HoT isn’t designed for you…”. I see it as an unethical decision on their part, but as players we have options. One of those is to just walk away. I’ve decided to just focus on the PvP side of the game since that’s where all the fun is anyway.

Aye my quotes weren’t meant for legal grounds, it was just help prove my point on misleading information to make a sale, as you said What they have done is conceal this vital piece of information until right before launch., this is what I’m angry about. It’s only coincidence that it fits into the role of unfair marketing tactics..

Sytherek.7689:

Consider this…

ANET has listed several “features” that won’t be ready at launch.
They sprang this busy work on us at the last moment.

I’ll leave it to others to draw conclusions.

I, too, bought the expansion for the Elite specs. I, too, am feeling misled. Kinda like in the early days, when ANET made a manifesto they then abandoned without a word.

Never again will I trust ANet. I likely will never buy any product in advance from them again. I’m looking for another game — not a rage quit, a disappointment quit.

Exactly, you were also mislead into buying HoT, which confirms

It makes no difference whether the business intended to mislead you or not. If the overall impression left by a business’s advertisement, promotion, quotation, statement or other representation creates a misleading impression in your mind—*such as to the price, value or the quality of any goods and services*—then the behaviour is likely to breach the law.

Entitlement Thread ahead.

I bought the HoT expansion for new elite specs, that’s it. No other reason, all I want to do is continue playing PvP and WvW only, with new elite specs….

What annoys me, is that we are forced into earning these new elite specs… I don’t want to grind for it, I paid for it. I didn’t pay to grind specs, I paid FOR THE SPECS….

As someone who has way too many characters, how the hell am I supposed to be able to unlock all the elites for all of my toons?

Why so many toons? Well they’re all equipped with different gear for different situations for easy swaps, but all centered around WvW and PvP…

3 Guards – 1 mediguard, 1 zerger guard and 1 small group guard: With new system on EARNING THE STUPID ELITES THAT I PAID TO USE, I would have to earn Dragon Hunter 3 times just to get my 3 guards re-set up for easy swapping again…

Then I’ll have to do the same to my 4 mes, 3 necro and so on ……

I honestly thought buying the expansion meant skills would unlock, I must have missed the part prebeta weekends where they said you would have to earn it even after buying it, I feel mislead into the sale of HoT as a customer, it feels like this is important information needed from the start of HoT and not at the very last second after you have already taken my money. I’m almost tempted to speak to a friend of mine who could help me clear the air on this matter after researching misleading sales tactics

“No matter how a business communicates with you—whether it’s through advertising, packaging, online, logos, endorsements or a sales pitch—you have the right to receive accurate and truthful messages about the products and services you buy.” – There was none of this at all in regards to buying your expansion and elite specs, you dropped that bomb on us after you have made your sales…

Then there is also “It makes no difference whether the business intended to mislead you or not. If the overall impression left by a business’s advertisement, promotion, quotation, statement or other representation creates a misleading impression in your mind—such as to the price, value or the quality of any goods and services—then the behaviour is likely to breach the law.

For those unfamiliar with unfair sales tactics: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/misleading-claims-advertising/false-or-misleading-claims

/endrant

Can players/buyers of HoT atleast have an option on if we would like to grind elite specs? That way, people like myself who work and have family commitments can still enjoy the game for being a game and let us use our elites like everyone else, while those who enjoy grinding can go grind for it?

(just want to clear up that those links and quotes from unfair sales is not meant as grounds for legal action but it was more to prove my point in feeling mislead into the sale of HoT, sorry for that confusion)

Random.4691:

Wait didn’t the majority of “Ultimate Dominators” exploit OS with kill trades for this title ? lol

I know there are some legit cases of people earning it but it’s really not a status symbol anymore due to tarnishing it with kill trades.

Yup, the only status about that title is that you exploited WvW. It’s not a title I would display openly lol

IMO paying $50 for the expansion should have unlocked the skills, depending on how long it takes to unlock 17 character elites it might just be easier to request a refund for me.

We already have some mounts….

Magic Carpet, Riding Broom, Sonic Tunneling and what ever else, unless you want something to ride that boosts movement speed and other stats?

I’m all for what we already have, anything that gives extra stats though I’m against it personally.

Rauderi.8706:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Narrrz.7532:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

On a more serious note, here is the reason they gave: Source

ReginaBuenaobra
ArenaNet Poster
Kittens are cute. Even the most hardened internet denizen has a soft spot for kittens. :-p

The filter words in the German, French, and Spanish official forums are different.

In German, the word is “Liebsche” (a term of endearment roughly equivalent to ‘honey’)
In French, it is “papillon” (butterfly)
In Spanish, it is “minino” (the more harmless form of the word ‘kitten’ in Spanish)
The goal for these filter words is to diffuse the abrasiveness and take the bite out of posts containing profanity.

The irony of course being that us hardened forumites now use kitten as a curse word, even in our daily lives XD

Kitten that! I never would!

(Ok. Maybe I do say kitten, for real, sometimes)

I never say kitten in real life, but sometimes, someone is just so.. GRR.. that I have to type kitten because no softening of a vulgarity will do otherwise. :P

I’ve never said kitten but I have definetly said to taxi drivers to take me to Stonemist instead of saying stocklands.

princode.2750:

Tao.5096:

princode.2750:

Nerco is the worst 1v1 class any class can counter it..hell even reaper sucks for 1v1 but weird enough nerco/reaper shine in 1vX.

Reaper will be a free kill and will have barely any damage.

Not like perma 25 Might and 25 Vulnerability on enemy will be significant for damage enough to kill anyone.

Right?

have you ever play a reaper….its impossible for reaper to stack 25 might and 25 vulner in pvp. Other class can generate might faster then reaper. no one is saying reaper is a free kill. Reaper is extremely powerful when fighting 1vX but its the weaskest class in any 1v1 encounter

what!!!!????

It’s really easy to maintain 25 stacks of might and vuln as a reaper, it’s almost all passively too!

Spite:
Siphoned Power – Gain 2 might per strike to enemies you strike below threshold
Rending Shroud – Apply 3 vuln to nearby enemies every second while in shroud
Deaths Embrace – Apply vuln to enemies you strike below threshold
Bitter Chill – Apply 3 vuln to enemies you chill
Reapers Might – Shroud Skill 1 grants might

Reaper: – These ones come from synergy of other traits.
Reapers Onslaught – Attack 15% faster in reaper form. (15% faster might stacks)
Chilling Nova – Chill foes on critical hits (Bitter Chill proc)
Shivers Of Dread – Apply chill to enemies you fear (Bitter Chill proc)

Soul Reaping:
Unyielding Blast – Shroud skill applies 2 vuln per hit.

those are just the traits that allow so much vuln and might stacking, ontop of that is what those traits bring to the weapon sets, runes, sigils and amulets eg: Hydromancy sigil on GS = AoE chill + Vuln.

Your BrainHex Class is Survivor.
Your BrainHex ClassYour BrainHex Sub-Class is Survivor-Conqueror.

Survivor: 12
Conqueror: 12
Daredevil: 8
Socialiser: 6
Mastermind: 6
Seeker: -4
Achiever: -10

Seems about right I guess, I play to digitally murder comrades after work to help me settle down ready for dinner haha

The satisfaction of stomping someone after a prolonged battle, nothing can compare for me! If I fail, I work out ways to succeed!

Sir Alymer.3406:

I actually think a compromise would work rather well. The ‘fog’ is removed and replaced with a grayed out version of the map for all alternate characters when you reach 100% completion on one of them. You can see everything you haven’t discovered with no more stopping at scouts to find hearts. Your first time through has that blotched out, less-than-detailed fog, but your second time is replaced with a black and white filter over the map that gets ‘colored in’ as you discover the areas on the new character.

This would be the best QoL change ever in regards to map completion.

I can’t find the thread right now, but a Dev had said with HoT the WvW achievements were being greatly lowered and Yakslapper was being brought down to 2,500 kills while ultimate Dominator was staying the same.

Edit: Found thread and quote:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

For Heart of Thorns, we are rebalancing the WvW Lifetime achievement requirements to much more reasonable numbers. At the same time we’ll also be updating many of their associated titles.

• We are not changing the Realm Avenger (“Ultimate Dominator”) achievement requirements or title, as some players have actually obtained it and it’s a bit of a status symbol.
• The “Yakslapper” title will remain, but the requirement is being reduced to 2500 yaks.
• As an example title change: “Ultimate Liberator” will become “Kingmaker”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Suggestion-WvW-achievements-1/page/6

AlphatheWhite.9351:

sephiroth.4217:

The truth is that Mesmer can outdamage burn builds without perplexity runes as it is…

This is not remotely true, and I challenge you to prove it.

sephiroth.4217:

you can nuke out 12-18 stacks of torment and confusion on your first, second, 3rd and 4th bomb

Except no, you can’t. Do your homework before you start talking out your kitten .
Mind Wrack:
confusion: 4 stacks with 4 illusions.
torment: 4 stacks with 4 illusions.
cooldown: 12s
Cry of Frustration:
confusion: 8 stacks with 4 illusions
torment: 4 stacks with 4 illusions
cooldown: 25s
Distraction:
confusion: 4 stacks with 4 illusions
torment: 4 stacks with 4 illusions
cooldown: 38s
Diversion:
confusion: 4 stacks with 4 illusions (if they happen to be next to the target)
torment: 4 stacks with 4 illusions (if they happen to be next to the target)
cooldown: 50s

First bomb: 4/4
Second bomb: 8/4
Third bomb: 4/4
Fourth bomb: 4/4
Maximum total possible: 20/16
Chance you’ll ever pull off the max: 0%
That’s because you’ve gotta create 12 illusions in 2 seconds to even have a ghost of a chance to pull something like that off.

Oh, and note the cooldowns there. You talk crap about guardian’s 20s cycle, but hey! only one mesmer “bomb” has less than a 20s cooldown anyway, and 2 of them are much much longer.

sephiroth.4217:

A clear indication of how powerful the perplex rune set would be is that every condition build that didn’t take flame legion runes or vamp runes would take perplexity…

1. Pulled this out of your kitten too, did you? Because I’m curious how you know this is true.
2. It’s also not true. Condition builds don’t all take Perplexity in WvW, even now. And not just because of the money.
3. What the hell kind of condition build uses vamp runes?

sephiroth.4217:

Also Cele DD ele with perplex – No thanks.

How often are DD eles actually interrupting you? They’ve got maybe one reliable interrupt? That confusion is gonna do nothing.

tl;dr: you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, everyone here can safely ignore you now. Frankly I’m shocked that a player with “7k hours” and “3 mesmers” would be this ignorant of the actual mechanics.

lol someone is obviously having a bad day today…. Don’t get me wrong it’s great you did the math from shatters alone and disregarded scepter or any weapon/utility skills. If you had of added those factors in you would have proved me right! lol

BUT

Maybe our skill factors are completely different, maybe our builds and playstyles and experiences are completely different but I didn’t pull anything out of my kitten so to speak nor did I bother to go out of my way to attempt to discredit anyone elses opinion, they are after all, opinions… Based off experience. (assuming you are talking from experience and not he said she said but on paper it looks like?)

You think ele has 1 reliable disrupt? lol. Again, we must have completely different playstyles and opinions based off our own skill factors and experience.

So yer, due to your bad mood and need to degrade others without adding anything constructive to the actual topic of the thread I’m sure many people could ignore you too. I will be ignoring you after this post. Also going through your posting history, it’s nothing but you shoving your “knowledge” down other peoples throats, it appears you have every single answer to every single question.

TL:DR: You’re just another salty forum user needing to vent on someone.

(on a plus side, thank you for reminding me to update those out of date stats in sig.)

T raw.4658:

Fortus.6175:

Throughout all of gw2’s history, thieves have been a very integral [mandatory] element due to their mobility, however , I think it is time to address some aspects of the class, namely the way their mobility and stealth come into play in Conquest.

I keep hearing that thieves are in a bad spot (mostly by thieves players) but they dont seem to realize the strength of basically forcing a 4v5 everywhere by constant decapping threat, or their ability to get out of vitually anything and anyone if so they wish with Sb 5 and stealth.

Are we honestly ok with this? Is it ok for a class to single handily dictate the pace of a match with only 2 abilities? I honestly dont think this translate to much fun to both the opponent or the thief himself, since there is no fighting involved at all, jsut running around all the match, “chasing” after the incapturable ….

If you leave a point unguarded for a thief to decap you that’s on you.

The simple fact that a theif can’t 1v1 any other meta class in this game means all you have to do is get to the point before its decapped.

Hell even some of the worst players in the game can hold a thief off long enough until help arrives.

Complaining about thieves at this point in time is just a sign of a player who needs to improve his game.

You know, some people can actually play thief and kill people while being outnumbered on point yer? Do those people need to learn how to play or was it just unfortunate that they went against someone who played thief for 3 years?

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

kdaddy.5431:

This still hasnt been fixed. I did a ranked game earlier and ran to far and the necro had a full 2nd life bar. Jumping out of the starting area and getting fall dmg and smashing 1 shouldnt give them life force.

It doesn’t. Necros have to actually hit something to generate life force, and being in combat only matters for Signet of Undeath (which nobody takes).

And my guess is that he did not have full life force when you started to fight him, but built a fair bit in combat before entering Death Shroud. If you run to Far immedietly on Khylo, the Necro can, at best, have around 30% life force by the time you arrive (and that invloves already using Flesh Wurm once). If he had full life force when he first entered Death Shroud, it means he built the other 70% up in fighting you.

Besides killing your flesh wurm at the start, he might of built life force off the boxes that are sitting around you can kill assuming it’s Khylo.

AlphatheWhite.9351:

snow.8097:

mesmer can throw out torment and confu like candy, u can clean as u wish, but they just apply it again and again
runes that support condi builds in that way are not fun to play against
u get ton of T and C? U run – u die on torment, u fight – u die on confu, u just stand still and die too.
Condi mesmer is a build i just dont want to see get buffed

Yes, because the other condi builds are soooo much weaker :rolleyes:

The truth is that Burn > All, and mesmers don’t get to have it.

The truth is that Mesmer can outdamage burn builds without perplexity runes as it is…

Using burn as something mesmers don’t have is silly, mesmers don’t need burn when you can nuke out 12-18 stacks of torment and confusion on your first, second, 3rd and 4th bomb compared to a burn guard who just poops out his 24 stacks and is useless for 20 seconds or more….

A clear indication of how powerful the perplex rune set would be is that every condition build that didn’t take flame legion runes or vamp runes would take perplexity…

Also Cele DD ele with perplex – No thanks.

Exxcalibur.6203:

Jasher.6580:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Use tomes instead, and not everyone wants map completion to be account bound.

I do use tomes, but I don’t want an alt without map completed.

So complete it.

Or perhaps we can just give away everything in the game until everything has no meaning at all.

Or maybe he’s a poor bugger like me who has over 16 toons and doesn’t want to do map completion over 16 times?

I +1 this account bound idea based off that. Only other idea is maybe do it on 3 toons to unlock for all toons?

Commander tags are used more in PvE than WvW, be thankful we don’t have to grind PvE events for it lol

We wouldn’t be able to play BETA characters and maps if we didn’t have some of the expansion already right?

Constantly decap and +1 fights… That is a thiefs role for any newbies

You don’t get many premades in unranked, if you do it’s just people having fun for the most part but sometimes it’s also premade guild groups getting rofl stomped in ranked so they rebuild the ego back up in unranked against pugs.

I mostly want Courtyard to have its own que due to having seperate viable builds to conquest.

To me it’s annoying setting up for a conquest match only to have to switch a lot of traits to cater for a TDM match.

Zoltreez.6435:

lol

i have 400% more top stats then games played XDDD

Caine.8204:

Zoltreez.6435:

lol

i have 400% more top stats then games played XDDD

They heavily increased the amount of top stats you can get, so this is the norm, whereas your win rate is 49% and mine is 64%.

abc.5790:

If I started the same time as you did, I’d have like 4000000% top stats to games played

Sorry guys but my Kitten is bigger!

you think having 1 person afk is bad? I just had a match where 1 DC caused another to afk and complain until the rest gave up and then 3 of them watched us kill their lord….

Derenek.8931:

lol, I just log in a couple times a week and kill monsters and complete missions for fun. Been doing this since launch. Never bought any gems with gold. Never had more than 20 gold at once in my inventory.

sephiroth, overfarming and tp speculation are two beasts that feed each other, which leads to inflation. There’s nothing inherently wrong with inflation…as long as you have lots of money that is.

I’m always broke with all the reinvesting on the TP lol, the only reason I’m currently flipping is for a grinning ghastly shield but I don’t have enough invested at the moment to sell out, I would have had enough if electro blue dyes didn’t crash but that’s the fun of the trading post.

Wish Anet would just put some skins on TP so I could just CC it! Or maybe the 4th year birthday present similar to 3rd year dye selection?

Nothing wrong with TP flipping, as a WvW player it’s the only way I can make gold to keep up with the PvE playerbase without grinding content I despise.

(it’s also a game in itself, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, I recently lost big on electro dyes but kitten happens)

I already troll 3 trap ranger when I’m bored, this will make it even funnier!!!!!!!!

I don’t get it….

They’re ambient creatures that people are farming for poly-luminescent trinkets and what ever else, while you’re farming them for weapon master titles…

Why do you have right of way because you’re farming weapon master while they farm for something else? are you royalty? are you someone special we need to know about? what makes you so important that everyone else needs to stop doing what they’re doing to cater for your needs?

I would like a condition counterpart runes to strength and hoelbrak…

Since cele ele was nerfed all I see are burn guards with RoF 2.0….

Just about all my toons pack generosity sigils because of this, even my rabid necro.

Wryscher.1432:

Hexalot.8194:

Maybe you don’t have to grind Hero Points after all. From their latest blog:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/its-the-final-countdown/

“Our journey is nearly over—very soon, you will be gliding through the jungle canopy, battling to level 100 in fractals, building a guild hall with your friends, overcoming challenges in the jungle to unlock your elite specialization, competing with your friends and guildmates to get to the top of our new minigame adventure leaderboards”

Granted… not an absolute confirmation maybe, but it does strongly indicate that Elite specs will be gotten via some kind of “challenges” in the new maps.

Note that per the datamined figure of 170 HPs, you wouldn’t have needed to go into the HOT jungles for extra HPs to unlock your elites.

What worries me is the phrasing. Unlock your elite spec. there is a world of difference between unlocked, and having the skills/traits to make it useable.

For example right now you unlock the ability to add trait lines at certain levels. But if you dont have the points to unlock the skills in those trait lines it doesnt matter at all that the line is unlocked.

I thought paying for the expansion should have unlocked our skills … I don’t wanna step foot into PvE for my skills just like PvE players don’t wanna WvW for legendaries.

Thief is hardest for me, but I can’t accept the thief role in PvP… I much rather scrim than +1 and decap only.

Labjax.2465:

When I’m on the losing side, I can’t get through 200 points without seeing someone on my team leave. When I’m on the winning side, I can’t get through 200 points without a “team unbalanced” prompt. Are you kidding me?

From this I will assume you join custom hotjoin matches, nothing wrong with that either but it’s just a hotjoin. People come and go through those matches just trying to get dailies done, some quick kills or warm up or what ever..

If you don’t want that, join unranked or ranked ques, there’s still afks from time to time but atleast it’s a 5v5 locked into the team and game until there’s a winner.

Demented Yak.6105:

How do you even play solo?

What do you do once you’ve completed the map and the story?

PvP and WvW.

Solo q and solo roam

how many active members do you have during Oceanic hours?

This is Sylvari medium T3 armor with Poli-Luminescant… (pic 1)

What you’re referring to though is the character customization of Sylvari when you get to choose glow color and intensity…

Some Tips about Sylvari and Poly-Luminescant:

If you want to just make your armor green glow with Poly, then make your toon black so his skin color doesn’t become green also..

When selecting the color of your sylvari, keep in mind that with armors like TA, it takes your base color and applies it to the armor in sections you can’t dye (refer to pic 2 and the red in armor)

+1,000,000 to more plant based skins

Terimac.5871:

Silverkey.2078:

Terimac.5871:

Man, most of you guys are so salty :P I guess you guys prefer the braindead playstyle couryards offer.

We are speaking about PvP, so how is fighting players braindead? Isn’t that the point?
When a map distracts you from that (Skyhammer is one, Stronghold may be even worse) to force you play gimmicks, this is not fun.

Sitting on the hammer to kill people is not PvP.
Killing people by pushing them over, that is barely PvP.
Playing a match where you have to kill the NPC guards, so that your NPC allies destroy the (NPC) gates so that you can reach the NPC lord and kill it with the help of your NPC heroes… That’s PvE.

I dunno why you are complaining about a guy camping the hammer? How hard is it to go there and have a proper 1vs1? That’s what i do and i love it.

Feel free to come for your 1v1 while I pop my tornado on the tiny ledge…

Super explosive finisher is the last item I have to show off that is unique though :’(

If we do can we also make these things available:
- Boxing Gloves
- Wizards hat
-Bunny Ears
-Grinning ghastly shield
-Scythe skin
-Greatsaw Chainsword
- Super Adventure Box Backpack
- All SAB skins

You summed it up yourself, Ele and Necro have good cele builds… So does Mesmer if you’re patient enough

Skyhammer is a troll map that gets voted in by troll builds…

Mini Rainbow Unicorn

Mini Footprint trails (from invisible mini)

“Open All” option for loot, luck and various things.