Guild Wars 2

You have to learn one thing, GW1 lore made sense and was awesome in GW1 while most of it makes no sense in GW2. Simply because GW2 is another game with the same name and nothing more.

I’m pretty sure i won’t main revenant.

Can we not have this “buy skins for X relics” mechanic? Thanks.

Matchmaking has to be fixed/adjusted, take number of matches played into account or use some other indicator because it happened that i felt absolutely terrible for steamrolling a full guild premade in pretty much their first match ever.

That’s not how you get people to play pvp. If it happens to them more than once, it will eventually discourage them and it’s NOT what experienced pvpers want from their matches either.

Haha, that’s creative.

You can reach level 30 in a couple of hours. Then you can do dungeons if you so desire.
The game throws xp at you for everything, events, killing mobs, gathering, exploring, crafting.

No xp gain for pvp? My 550 tomes of knowledge beg to disagree.

Fay.2357:

Some of the nerfs were justified. Most of the nerfs were heavy-handed, poorly conceived, poorly executed, and overall awful decisions.

This is very true and i think the root of the problem is, nobody at arenanet plays mesmer, nobody knows what’s what. They are balancing based on forum QQ.

I’m wondering how often other dungeon sellers hijack instances. For me they seem to be the prime suspect for this.

You can ask support to replace the item for you. They usually do that only once so you might want to consider how much you want that box fixed. Good luck!

Six rangers in one match! I can almost hear the whistling of arrows. Almost see the rapid fires and barrages blotting out the sun. Must have been almost as epic as battles from the Lord of the Rings movies.
Perhaps we need mounts in pvp to have a glorious charge and run them down.

Zealot’s gear is account bound. You have to craft it yourself.
That said, the recipes needed for zealot’s crafting should be available on the TP.

xDudisx.5914:

Are you saying mesmer has no passive or rng? Tell me more about how you get 1 free clone every dodge with no internal cd or how your ilusions inflict bleeding on crit or about the fire+air sigil, etc..

It’s not a “free” clone because you have to use a trait slot for it.
Also, clones only bleed on crit if you have spent points in dueling.
I know you have no clue about how mesmer works but you should really try to write your comments to at least appear informed.

As for celestial, i think it’s not OP as some say, but looking at PvP lately it should probably be nerfed just for the sake of the game.
Celestials are perfect to queue up alone, self-sufficent, no need to rely on team mates. But if you take the team aspect of it, PvP becomes less interesting.

Well, they said they would fix it when there is enough developer time for it. Now apparently there isn’t a single developer who has time to set a variable to “1” instead of “0”.

Another option is that they lied, which is not something you should do when you are a game developer.

I’d say – and even with pvp taken into account – GW2 does have a really “outstanding” community. Sure, there are different people everywhere but generally the community is much nicer than the average.

Pockets.3201:

serenke.4806:

I agree, we need dye collections.

Why? Do you want the cost of dyes on the TP to go even higher?

As i have them all already, i wouldn’t mind

I agree, we need dye collections.

WvW cannot be balanced. So many people have stated it so many times and it’s still true.
Why does this balancing WvW come up every now and again?

The game mode itself is a sandbox. There are so many factors (number of people in a BL on either side, their level, their gear, their build, food, commanders). There is no balance. WvW balance is a lie.

sMihaly.1492:

All i have to say to those narrow sighted “meta-or-kitten-off” guys, is that you have to learn to enjoy the game and play for fun or don’t play at all. It is a game afterall.

No can do. Got to have perfect rotations and such, if a party member does something half a second too late they should be kicked and reported for griefing.

Dungeons are serious business after all.

I like a smooth run just as much as anybody else but honestly sometimes people get carried away with their whole dungeon expertise. The game has an AI that is as smart as an amoeba, aside from certain cases it does not react to what players do. Therefore a well-trained monkey could be taught to do these dungeons.

Honestly, i don’t get all the “you rushed” posts. OP said they’ve maxed it “recently”. I am at almost 250% without ever having rushed this (just by salvaging whatever dropped for me and wasn’t worth selling).
It’s a valid concern if i think about it. I’ll keep salvaging stuff after having maxed luck, but then luck essences will keep piling up rather quickly, hogging inventory space.
Sure, i can delete the essences -or Arenanet can come up with a solution to this.
And yes… sooner or later this will be a problem for everyone who says you shouldn’t have “rushed” it.

What the heck, was this thread really only much ado about nothing?
Next time, can you wait with posting until after you’ve gotten your precursor?

There’s so much misinformation, hearsay and just lack of knowledge in this thread (apart from a few actually well-informed mesmers), it’s ridiculous.

Amir.1570:

Neptune.2570:

Thief is the single, undisputed, hardest class to make effective at high tier pvp. Fact.

Fixed.

If by hard you mean baiting dodges with Phantasms and then instant-cast shattering people after they don’t have anymore endurance while spamming evades and invuln as you do so is hard then it just shows how much you know.

Ranger is easier than Mesmer, but Mesmer is still pretty easy. There are harder specs in this game, specs that take real skill. Even Thief is more skill-based than Mesmer really but I guess it’s just hard to understand that just because you play a Mesmer.

You Sir are quite deluded.

Kuroko.6239:

So everyone says Rangers the easiest class, I have a 80 mesmer and it is so easy to play in PvP and WvW… In PvP all you have to do is press 123 and the clones will do everything if you’re using an illusion greatsword build.. hunter has a lot more mobility / kiting you need to do, so whys everyone say mesmers hard when I’m getting top scores easily?

You have to actually enter a match and not fight vs. the dummy golems in the heart of the mists. They are NOT considered pvp.

I’d come back to the game if i would have left.

Shield could have a nice blast finisher… But then again putting shield on a mesmer is already a sin.

There are options for eles in case they ever nerf celestial. It’s just that while d/d celestial is this good, not many will look for other builds.

Saying that ele is the weakest in pvp is a bucket full of nonsense overflowing.

Well, many items don’t show any stats when linked. Why not have an inspect option for the skins/dyes only? Would that hurt?

For all the AP hoarders out there: achievement points only mean you have farmed achievement points. It does not make you a good player, nor does it show any skill related to any game mode. It’s also not prestigious because you can still suck with 26k APs and you can be a great player with 2k.

I think if they would have any plans to add any instances, they would have pointed that out. I’m still hoping they will come up with two dungeons for HoT, wouldn’t hold my breath though.

Rule 26: If you cap a point after a 5 minutes long fight, ALWAYS leave it immediately without checking for incoming enemies first. Especially true in graveyard on legacy.

Rule 27: If your team mate holding home says he’s got 3 incoming, don’t bother to go help them, go to far instead because you’ll probably win a 1v2 there before the enemy wins 3v1.

naiasonod.9265:

serenke.4806:

The PvP-phobia in this thread is amazing. The community is not THAT toxic, but because of such threads it has come to the point where you think about using team chat twice since you could be labeled a “rager” for saying “please don’t go mid” or “don’t push far”…

Also, if that necro in your example was actually trying necro for the first time and they went to unranked immediately, i can see why people would tell them to go to hot join (or maybe some stronger words).

It’s quite toxic to join unranked/ranked with a class you don’t know how to play because you will be a dead weight for your team to carry.

Phobia implies fear. In my case, I fear PvP about as much as I fear a screaming toddler at the movie theater.

It’s a nuisance to me, and one that seems to do everything in its power to be unignorable as often as possible.

Not a thing more.

People mentioned that it went that far, that they are nervous pressing the queue button. There’s also a lot of comments mentioning to just stay out of pvp because that’s the root of all evil, so yeah i still claim that the PvP phobia is rampant in this thread. Perhaps not you of course, if you don’t fear the queue don’t feel included in this.

AllNightPlayer.1286:

Found the old Commando class trailer and look, old idle and running animation on females. But nowadays, you cannot make these cool videos anymore, A-Net.

Commando Class
1:25 & 3:15 stretch animation | 3:32 front view run animation

Nice find! Those were the days… Honestly, i cannot grasp why it’s so difficult to just put the animations back in the game. Especially since miniatures, inappropriate armour combos (pink moustached norns, etc.) tonics (in the eternal alchemy cutscene) have ruined our immersion anyway.

We laughed those off so why is stretching and kicking dirt such a heinous act? Can we at least have all of the above removed as well so as to keep our immersion intact? Or have the animations put back.

The PvP-phobia in this thread is amazing. The community is not THAT toxic, but because of such threads it has come to the point where you think about using team chat twice since you could be labeled a “rager” for saying “please don’t go mid” or “don’t push far”…

Also, if that necro in your example was actually trying necro for the first time and they went to unranked immediately, i can see why people would tell them to go to hot join (or maybe some stronger words).

It’s quite toxic to join unranked/ranked with a class you don’t know how to play because you will be a dead weight for your team to carry.

Veydar.5017:

serenke.4806:

Getting them guaranteed will turn fractals – the only place which is not afflicted by this – into something resembling a regular workplace.

That is your opinion. For me Fractals are exactly like dungeons -> a grind. The only reason why I enjoy dungeons a bit more is because I get guaranteed rewards that are useful to me (gold). Fractals are just as much work, but without the guaranteed reward that I consider worthwhile. I don’t see how giving players a guaranteed way of achieving their goal would make it more like work.
It doesn’t really matter if you spam Fractals to get more relics or to get more dice rolls, the latter just feels less rewarding and gives less people an incentive to run them, since they might get nothing in return.

So basically you – and most other people here – actually find dungeons/fractals/the game a grind and don’t really do anything for the sake of doing it but to get the awesome rewards. The whole thing with everything in this game is, the community wouldn’t lift a finger if not rewarded by lots of in-game gold or items they can turn into gold.

If you recall how in the beginning everybody was running around in CoF gear because it was considered high-end gear and a full set meant you completed your zerk set. Now we turn dungeon tokens into ectos and salvage materials and only a few actually wear CoF things and people only run dungeons as a source of gold and find it a drag (we cry for better rewards from them all the time).

Now apply the same mechanic to fractals, give skins for relics and ruin it just like every other dungeon. I understand that people quit doing fractals because they didn’t get the skin they wanted, but i have to ask, once you get your skin for relics wouldn’t you quit anyway? How is it different if you run 100 fractals, get the desired skin and quit or if you run 100 fractals, end up with a few skins you didn’t want and quit because you were disappointed? Bottom line is, you’ve stopped doing fractals…

Imagine if people would do content because of the challenge, the company (doing guild runs), and only consider the reward on third place. It all happens in the mind, you can turn anything into a grind if your first and foremost incentive is that you want to get something.

Generally i wouldn’t do that. There was this one time when i spent every last copper i had so if there is something i really want, i would do it, just not on stupid legendaries.

I keep getting ~30k karma per day for doing my daily fractals. Can’t get rid of my ~8 million fast enough.

Knighthonor.4061:

Carighan.6758:

jportell.2197:

It still will. If you think about it Anet is going to have to redesign every single mesmer weapon for the chronomancer to not use illusions. That is a massive undertaking.

“While Chronomancers create clones, they don’t actually try to attack a target, instead they perform the same animations as the Chronomancer wherever they were created.”

(… actually, please make that a change to Mesmers as a whole, I could actually fool people with my clones then)

That won’t fool anybody unless you are stationary, which I doubt in a mobile focused combat like in this game.

Imagine if the clones would mimic all the actions of the mesmer including movement. That’d be a mess and also great fun.

Unless they come up with some smart mobs using proper builds in HoT, this won’t change a thing. Maybe all the banner+signet warriors will have to take a stunbreak for once. But i bet the taunt will be telegraphed so you can … drumroll … dodge it!

They are not too fond of 5-man instances so whatever. It can be fun in pvp/wvw though.

Pointless thread is pointless?

Dragonball is horrible but Southsun Survival manages to be worse.
Why can’t we have keg brawl for teams?

99% of statistics on the internet are taken out of thin air and worth about as much.

I understand it can be disheartening to get no skin for ages, or to get duplicates. It’s the one time when you do get it that makes up for it.
It’s also stupid when someone gets the skin you wanted on their first run while you didn’t get it for months.

But once you can actually put a price tag on fractal skins (time spent, not gold) they are just worthless because you can get it guaranteed if you just work for it.

“Work for it…”

Getting them guaranteed will turn fractals – the only place which is not afflicted by this – into something resembling a regular workplace.

Bottom line is, do fractals because you enjoy doing it, because you do it with friends or guildies and when you get that skin, be happy. Don’t turn it into a second job.

Alteros.3019:

serenke.4806:

As long as both sides have an equally big blob, it’s fun. It’s as close to an actual battlefield as it will ever get in this game and like others have said, if you want small scale combat you have pvp or you can flip camps to help the main blob achieve its goals.

There is one problem with the blob, if the other two worlds have nowhere near as big a blob as one. Then it’s incredibly one-sided, but it’s not exactly the game mode’s fault.

So yeah, to stop the blob, get a bigger or more organised blob and may the better one win.

I beg to differ. It totally is the game’s fault through either poor or intentional design that one side has a huge blob that can roll through an entire border land unimpeded. As I have said before and will continue to say until I’m blue in the face: normalize the base power levels of the servers dynamically and virtually all of the problems plaguing WvW will go away. I don’t see a functional difference between a 40 man Zerg moving in unison melting everything in sight vs the only guy on the opposing server doing the same (extreme example, but you get the point).

The game has to be fun for both sides playing. Last time I checked, it’s not fun to be a loot bag because your outnumbered 3:1 no matter what time of day your on. My server has attempted every conceivable strategy to overcome such odds, but it’s always a numbers game. And we’re tired. And we understand why people jump ship to the safety of the friendly blob. But in the end, we’re on course for the active WvW population to condense down to a handful of servers who aren’t bored of blobbing and a whole lot of empty ones.

It sucks to be outnumbered of course, but WvW cannot be completely normalized since it’s basically a big sandbox. It is what the players make of it.

And if you see the enemy blob rampage somewhere, then go elsewhere, capture other things. If they have scouts and move to intercept, split up and capture things like that.

Even an 80-person blob cannot be in three places at once and you can take care of a lot with three 15-person groups.

Dyes i have to have just to still be able to say i have every dye in game.

Buying skins for pristine relics is a bad idea.

Season one was actually much better than two. It had the molten facility and aetherblade hideout instances, large overland events (as much as i hate zerging, it made people do things together more than S2).

I might be biased because i generally dislike this whole Mordremoth thing. Whatever.

And also because they don’t want to. Mesmers here are supposed to look like elementalists or necros.

I wouldn’t want to be able to get fractal skins with relics, but having upwards of 65k relics i would love these to be useful apart from buying skill points.

As long as both sides have an equally big blob, it’s fun. It’s as close to an actual battlefield as it will ever get in this game and like others have said, if you want small scale combat you have pvp or you can flip camps to help the main blob achieve its goals.

There is one problem with the blob, if the other two worlds have nowhere near as big a blob as one. Then it’s incredibly one-sided, but it’s not exactly the game mode’s fault.

So yeah, to stop the blob, get a bigger or more organised blob and may the better one win.

Rezzet.3614:

serenke.4806:

So basically turret engi is easy to kill to all of the above top tier players but it takes too much time and effort and as such it has to be removed.

so Warriors and Guardians should be removed from the game by your logic

It was not my logic but how this whole thread sounded.