Guild Wars 2

I’m only here to defend the oil…. Oil is awsome if you have your masteries maxed and happen to be playing a burn focused build lol

Poxxia.1547:

Hmm:
AoE and cleaves in general is aids for clones. And it is abundant.
A single condition is messing up attunement-swapping.
Mobility and porting is messing up a class that lacks mobility.
The list goes on.

Instead of feeling victimised all the time, perhaps just wait a second and see if Daredevil doesn’t provide the 1vs1 possibilities without stealth-spam everyone (or at least a great deal) has sought. Perhaps the sky isn’t falling. Just hold your breath for a second – it isn’t like you have been out of the meta for 3 years or something. Stealth is a horrible mechanic anyway (imo) – the guessing-game is just a horrible counter to anything. Mind you: It doesn’t matter if engines get stealth: There will still be counters for stealth – even the very same class ironically.

It is getting old really fast to try to argue with people who wear earplugs and scream at the same time.

Daredevil is extremely fun with a monk mentality and appropriate gear (P/P + Staff)

I couldn’t care less about it, I play PvP because it’s fun… Getting a BL key for having fun sounds like a gift to me.

But I can understand why people are mad, it’s rare to meet other players who PvP for fun > dailies/AP farming.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Maybe look at profane set as well. For 500 gems it is disappointing that if you mix and match piece’s and exclusively dye in one colour, the profane pieces are inconsistent in colour matching. Every other mix and match piece will be the same colour, the profane pieces come out matt in appearance and about 17 shades lighter in colour. It’s not game breaking, but the armour does require gem purchase.

What’s wrong with profane? I use it for a futuristic Tron appearance with electro dyes and it looks fine to me?

Qugi.2653:

sephiroth.4217:

Gaile Gray.6029:

JEM.3574:

Gkitten24:

Things like this leave a bad taste in my mouth. I haven’t bought the ultimate edition so am not affected, but there should never be an excuse for making loyal innocent players have to pay the price for criminals. Not cool Anet, not cool.

You could have at least let those who don’t yet have their gems reserve sale items for, say, I dunno, how about 72 hours?

Mhmmm…it’s not like Anet cannot take back the items if the sale was counterfeit. Furthermore, if the sale was counterfeit they are going to remove HoT from my account and ban me! So, what’s the difference in letting me have my gems to purchase the items. Makes no logical sense at all.

Of course it makes sense. Imagine you’re a fraudster. You “buy” the Ultimate Edition using a stolen CC. You get the gems, buy items, sell them to innocent players to “wash” the gold, use the gold to acquire other items at which time the stolen CC is identified and the account is banned. You don’t care, because you’ve lost nothing and in fact have profited from the illicent activities. We can’t simply “take back” the gems because they’ve been used to acquire items that then go to innocent players. And those people are unwittingly impacted by scurulous behavior on the part of the fraudsters.

I got hit with this, sold a skin to someone who apparently used gold farmers, his account was banned and the gold he had sent me for the skin was stripped from me. Bye bye 200g.

If you use TP as it mean to be and not player to player sell which arena net do not support you would not have that problem. This is reason for TP safe trading. I guess you learn lesson hard way.

For sure! Haven’t trusted any guildies or people in game since then lol

It’s useful, but people want loot over being useful.

Gaile Gray.6029:

JEM.3574:

Gkitten24:

Things like this leave a bad taste in my mouth. I haven’t bought the ultimate edition so am not affected, but there should never be an excuse for making loyal innocent players have to pay the price for criminals. Not cool Anet, not cool.

You could have at least let those who don’t yet have their gems reserve sale items for, say, I dunno, how about 72 hours?

Mhmmm…it’s not like Anet cannot take back the items if the sale was counterfeit. Furthermore, if the sale was counterfeit they are going to remove HoT from my account and ban me! So, what’s the difference in letting me have my gems to purchase the items. Makes no logical sense at all.

Of course it makes sense. Imagine you’re a fraudster. You “buy” the Ultimate Edition using a stolen CC. You get the gems, buy items, sell them to innocent players to “wash” the gold, use the gold to acquire other items at which time the stolen CC is identified and the account is banned. You don’t care, because you’ve lost nothing and in fact have profited from the illicent activities. We can’t simply “take back” the gems because they’ve been used to acquire items that then go to innocent players. And those people are unwittingly impacted by scurulous behavior on the part of the fraudsters.

I got hit with this, sold a skin to someone who apparently used gold farmers, his account was banned and the gold he had sent me for the skin was stripped from me. Bye bye 200g.

PvE without a doubt…

So many players like to force their own play style onto you and if you don’t conform then you cop a tonne of PM abuse for it, it’s worse in a dungeon… Can’t even post for Casual run for dungeons without someone getting mad because you stacked on the left pillar instead of the middle one.. Don’t have zerker gear in your own dungeon casual group? You’re kicked from your own party.

jelle smits.5863:

I really hope there gonna bring back the 2012 halloween skins
I wasnt able to play the game then so i want to have a chance of getting them :,(

I am now too…

I was against bringing back old items due to the prestige value of them but since they brought back mini spooky trio, outfits and silly scimitar skins it would be nice of Anet to ruin the prestige effects of Ghastly Grinning Shield and Scythe skins too…

If they released the skins on Gem store, I’m sure they would make a lot of cash sales.

Diku.2546:

Hahaha…good spoiler.

ANet needs to redo our current WvW map mechanic in my opinion.

Which probably won’t happen anytime soon…in the meantime.

Hey…pull my finger…

Not sure if I really wanna pull that lol

Colly.4073:

But your night is someone else’s day!

shutting some people out of WvW would be unfair, I have no idea how the devs are going to address night capping but completely shutting people out because they are in a different time zone to you isn’t the answer.

Thanks for amusing me, you won top comment!

I propose we shut down WvW at night, it’s unfair that I train all day and upgrade stuff just for night cappers to take it undefended… I put a lot of hard work into following the blue tag and when I log off at the end of the day I have everything fortified, I should be compensated for my hard work if night cappers can take it for free when I go to bed, WvW should be shut down when I go to bed, it should only be open during prime time of the only time zone in the world cause Australia is the only time zone that players play in..

I think the “scrubs” are hating because they’ve solo’d keeps many times on multiple classes like thousands of other people but didn’t try glorifying themselves over it on a public forum.

The Condi mesmer, one of the most skill-less WvW specs to fight probably also causes a natural dislike.

Nice job though and congrats on the solo, it’s heartwarming the first time when you’re still enjoying the PPT war side of life

Anet should shut down WvW to prevent night capping… Atleast that way us Aussies can play without Americans screwing everything up as usual….

#AmIdoinitright?

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

That’s the one problem with the way the Reaper is designed. Since it has no disengage, it has to be the most powerful in a straight up brawl. Otherwise, the Reaper will never be played. The class that beats the reaper will be played, since the reaper will automatically lose once seeing that class.

Flesh Worm is one of the best disengages in game if used right.

Flesh Worm is love, Flesh Worm is life.

EremiteAngel.9765:

I think i know what is causing this mentality of pack roamers chasing half the map to kill a solo roamer.

I don’t experience this much in T1, but since coming to T2, it became very evident.

Pack roamers (2 or more players) will do their best to chase down an enemy solo roamer. sometimes going half the map just to do it.

Why? where is the challenge to pounce on an enemy with more numbers? is it fun?

I always justified it as “they are defending their homeworld. doesn’t matter if i am alone and they have 8. to them, i need to die”.

i finally figured it out after experiencing it myself.

it was the scarcity of meeting enemy roamers in T2 that resulted in this bloodlust the moment they see an enemy. they just want some action.

you could roam for 3-4 hours and maybe meet one or two evenly numbered encounters. and that is considered a lucky day.

so in the end, to these packs, any enemy is fair game. any enemy means action, it means some fun. even if it is not challenging.

Tier 2 is not the place to be for roaming for these reasons… It’s blobs only, those blobs barely fight eachother unless it’s 3:1 odds…

There’s also a reason why most people in T2 have WxP boosters, it’s a karma train tier.

Tiffany.8576:

P/P thieves are only good for catching you off-guard at the start. Then when everyone realizes you’re playing P/P, you’ll spend the rest of the game in downstate. At least, this is how it should work.

P/P damage was buffed recently, but they weren’t really unused due to their lack of damage before. They weren’t particularly viable due to their lack of survivability and the fact that most other classes/specs brought more to the table, which hasn’t really changed. You’ll see them for a little whilst people are still trying out the buffs, but not much beyond.

I’ve run P/P D/D for over 2 years
(WvW though, only 4 games in PvP for thief lol, not a fan of thief role)

trytonianYeti.4389:

sephiroth.4217:

trytonianYeti.4389:

sephiroth.4217:

Reaper can 1v4 pretty kitten good in close encounters..

I think it’s mostly perma 25 might mixed with 25 vuln ontop of damage amplifiers though, or atleast where my damage spikes come from anyway.

GS 2 skill crits for 12-18k and reaper 4+5 skills hit another 12k+ each ontop of wells and the freeze bomb.

Golems that don’t dodge nor hit back does not count.

Not defending the Reaper. I haven’t even played it. But Ive encountered it many times recently and it’s not hard to beat.

When did I say golems? Please point that out to me buddy unless you’re just putting words in my mouth?

You said so yourself you haven’t played reaper so why comment?

Because I’ve beaten it with non HoT builds. I don’t have to play it if I’ve beaten it. Learning to play it should be reserved for people that complain it’s op

so where’s your buddy then?

Does he have screenshots? Those numbers are skewed way too high. I fought reapers and don’t remember getting hit that hard, even on my shatter mesmer

You’re putting words in my mouth again dude…. I never said it was unbeatable or said there was no counters, what I said was “Reaper can 1v4 pretty kitten good in close encounters..”…

Please, just stop. I saw your post history, you’re obviously having a bad day.

(buddy was referring to you, kinda like callin someone you don’t know mate or dude or man or what ever the lingo is in your area)

trytonianYeti.4389:

sephiroth.4217:

Reaper can 1v4 pretty kitten good in close encounters..

I think it’s mostly perma 25 might mixed with 25 vuln ontop of damage amplifiers though, or atleast where my damage spikes come from anyway.

GS 2 skill crits for 12-18k and reaper 4+5 skills hit another 12k+ each ontop of wells and the freeze bomb.

Golems that don’t dodge nor hit back does not count.

Not defending the Reaper. I haven’t even played it. But Ive encountered it many times recently and it’s not hard to beat.

When did I say golems? Please point that out to me buddy unless you’re just putting words in my mouth?

You said so yourself you haven’t played reaper so why comment?

Reaper can 1v4 pretty kitten good in close encounters..

I think it’s mostly perma 25 might mixed with 25 vuln ontop of damage amplifiers though, or atleast where my damage spikes come from anyway.

GS 2 skill crits for 12-18k (which can be spammed) and reaper 4+5 skills hit another 12k+ each ontop of wells and the freeze bomb.

I can’t get a 5v5 AT ALL!

The moment a match starts up, someone has already raged quit over something or someone’s class….

4 losses in a row, 3 games someone had left due to “beta weekend” and the fourth game was a 3v5 because we rolled Skyhammer.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Every loss I’ve had today has resulted in playing against worse players and more rage quitters…

I hate the map due to rangers personally… If it’s anything like it used to be, it will be mostly rangers in the water who won’t die. Pet rez OP in water.

This thread made my partner laugh…

seriously though, it’s part of the theme and you have an issue with it due to names… You remind me of the guy in this pic.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Pockets.3201:

It also tells some players that they can’t play the endgame, so they should find another game to play.

My friend. That’s like someone saying “college is too hard, I’ll go work in a fastfood joint instead”. IF someone invests time in themselves, THEN it pays off. Anet can’t change a player’s mindset. The drive comes from within.

It’s a game not a life choice lol….

But I’m curious what your examples of “skilled players” are, is it knowing NPC rotations well or curb stomping everyone in PvP? I’m going to assume it’s the first one due to some of your elitism comments regarding raids in PvE.

well that sucks

Purchased Ultimate edition 3 days ago I think it was, $100 version and still no gems.

It said Gem delivery will be within 72 hours, 72 hours have passes but no gems yet and I fear the extra $50 I spent on another 4000 gems might have confused some people at Anet about how much gems I should receive.

All up I spent $150 for expansion and 8k gems, but only the separate purchase of gems have been delivered so far of 4k, any chance someone could put through the other 4k gems?

I finally bought expansion, but my issue is that I have banked my ascended trinkets to use on beta toon for wvw but they don’t appear in my bank?

I log on to a toon that is not beta, and the trinkets are there but when I try a beta toon, no trinkets.

Does anyone know a fix for this? I have tried to remake my beta toon but no luck.

I don’t get the issue?

I laughed seeing those pictures, it’s nice knowing they actually play WvW too.

Is your Charr max size? and was the other race you were playing Asura?

Basically every toon runs at the same speed, Norns look slow compared to Asura when playing alone but you still run at the same speed as everyone else.

I just want Ricochet back.

Vayne.8563:

Diovid.9506:

Vayne.8563:

5. My guess would be the new borderlands and the changes coming to WvW. Plus the meta will be shaken up.

Most of those changes do not require you to have the expansion though.

But they’re coming with the expansion. They cost money to program. You choose to support the game or not, but if you don’t, you sure can’t complain when your chosen area of the game gets less support.

This is a silly comment, I’ve put over $2000 into the game up until the HoT announcement. Please don’t assume I don’t support the game.
(if your argument is “you’ve spent 2k why not spend another 50?” I just can’t with a child due soon, every dollar counts now)

If anything, Anet doesn’t support WvW and treats it as some side game, granted it is to most people but not to me. Guild Wars 2 is the only game I enjoy for mass PvP, if I want to PvE, I play Far Cry 4 or Final Fantasy, but as it stands Guild Wars 2 is the only game I can WvW on which is why I have put so much money towards it already.

Thankyou for your first comment though.

lilz shorty.1879:

when it’s apparent they don’t listen to us about balance.

hundreds of ideas are thrown at them daily by different players, if they listened to all the personal ideas of balance from players then the game would be a mess as each players skill determines the perspective of what is OP and needs balancing.

Sharky.1470:

Yes, it’s the burns not the proffesion…Guards are OK.

I tried saying this on a DD ele thread once…

Moonlit.6421:

sephiroth.4217:

I think rewards should be stripped from WvW all together.

Too many players play WvW for the rewards instead of playing the game mode for what it is, and thats open world PvP.

unless I’m the only one who gets snippy that my enemies refuse to fight and never leave the blob that flips empty towers.

Lol who plays wvw for he rewards? There’s nothing you can get in wvw you couldn’t get easier in pve and likely with more of a profit. Also not everyone thinks of wvw as a vast killing ground, some people take great joy in protecting points they worked hard to improve lol.

I’m just assuming due to my enemies never fighting, hiding in towers, running away, only blobbing empty towers, dying once results in map switch, people linking how many embroided bags they have, people boasting WvW rank, groups of people taking out mosquito infestation in EB, commanders killing grubs, commanders zerging the Oakheart, zergs avoiding eachother and so on…. The common denominator here was loot and not the enjoyment of large scale PvP against other players.

In reference to WvW being a large killing grounds, over 3 years the game mode has seen many changes, the first change towards to current K-Train meta was the introduction of siege + golems to the trading post, before then, WvW was a killing grounds involving tactics and long sieges with communities who help fund their pugmanders, badges also had value as siege needed to be bought, siege upgrade books were pricey at the time, golems were a rare sight let alone an omega maybe once a fortnight. Now we have EotM, badges being thrown around like crazy, loot + exp everywhere just because we sneezed on something and the new WvW BL maps.

Yes, I’m a dinosaur.

Hopefully I can get some to the point simple answers. Preferably keep answers numbered if possible please.

1. If I buy HoT, will I have a spare key to the core game to give to my friend who is currently F2P?

2. If I buy the $100 version, how soon could I expect 4000 gems to spend?

3. Would this be worth buying if you only PvP and WvW?

4a. As someone who is on prepaid internet at 6gb per $50, how big will the expansion be in terms of size?
4b. Will the expansion download be mandatory to those who didn’t buy HoT?

5: Name the most exciting thing about HoT that isn’t PvE related or class related.

I think rewards should be stripped from WvW all together.

Too many players play WvW for the rewards instead of playing the game mode for what it is, and thats open world PvP.

unless I’m the only one who gets snippy that my enemies refuse to fight and never leave the blob that flips empty towers.

Don’t stress too much, OCT 23 and exp comes out, 1 class will shine above the rest and everyone will hate those players for playing those classes.

The stats exist because there are tank builds that provide a lot of healing to other classes, even necro can pull off 8-10k AoE heals if equipped properly.

TBH I don’t see the point of the stats outside of WvW/PvP.

Or maybe it’s just a simple case of 1 guy getting fights in the OS and the other guy refusing to give up after his first death, which a lot of “WvW players” do.

I really couldn’t help myself, but thanks for the laugh OP.

Edge of the mists is not WvW.

Play a rezmancer, always fun!

Torch needs fixing?

Ross Biddle.2367:

Remember when-

…scepter 2 had no torment, and scepter 3 had no AoE line effect? Back then nobody ran torch but me (or scepter for that matter -_-u).

Play my game kitten!

When was this?
I remember glamour builds could drop a zerg with confusion….
I remember traiting for fall damage and jumping off towers to instantly kill people under me…

I don’t remember those though

reinforever.8902:

Kocoff.7582:

Trapper Thief is a great build. It is OK. Reinforever made a real hype out of this, and it was really fun. Unfortunately, this build will go extinct when HoT releases.

Ps: we need to meet that Thief, he is getting infamous for his nice display to skill lol.

I’ve been on hiatus. Jesus, is this what the forums have come to?
The ghost trapper is balanced from a viewpoint of it will never kill you if you know wtf to do. As far as the power version goes, it’s far from permastealth and has it’s cons. for people that were wondering about the backstab trapper that I originally posted, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpiAUU9b3Ew here ju go.

I’m working on a p/p trapper pew pew build as my final hurrah before HoT comes out and breaks the spec. I’ll keep y’all posted.

Thank you oh wonderful and glorious Senpai

IMO it’s a bug.

Reveal is reveal plain and simple.

If it’s not a bug, then “reveal” wording needs to be changed or the trait needs to say “chance to reveal”.

Rampage engie > Rampage war.

(not sure why ppl hate nado, personally I think it’s great for getting the quick decap.)

I had a thief tell me how bad I was because he was finally able to kill me when the scoreboard came up…. I lost my kitten in laughter because he was also jumping on me…

In general though it doesn’t bother me if they want to keep fighting, I’ll lay down and take it like a roufied kitten. Lay it on me!

Tyler Bearce.3427:

• 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.

Status symbol???

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??????

Congrats on OS farming each other? Congrats on being in gold tier? WHAT STATUS!?

(good changes, yak slapper is way too low though, atleast make it in line with kills and bring it to 7,500 – 10,000)

While they can mouse over your name for the info, I have no objections towards a positive QoL change.

Personally I fixed the issue with naming all of my toons as knight"something", so people just know me as knight now.

On the other hand: Constantly someone whispers me under a different toon name and I get easily confused, maybe the nickname system from friends list could be projected on your guild chat. So you nickname your friend “rallybot” and no matter what toon they message you on you would see the name “rallybot”.