Guild Wars 2

My game started crashing after latest “quick” patch, 2 days ago i think, and this error is one of the few i’m getting. I’m getting kicked randomly every 10min-few hours…

Very social and nice guild! Even tho gw2 is lacking guild features and content, our coucil and other members always come up with new and fun ideas for activities.
We are all relaxed, fun and enjoy each other’s company.
I’m still fairly new, but i’m glad i found Mist Angels, if i hadn’t i would probably not be playing gw2 anymore
If you’re mature, social, fun and think you’d like it in Mist Angels, than take a look at our website and apply for membership. And thank me later in game. :P

You people keep repeating “insults here, insults there” … I have done quite a lot champ farming and i barely see any insults. Well, i haven’t done much queensdale one, but still, i think you are all exaggerating with it. Besides, if anyone is alergic to some bad language then they chose wrong genre. Not genre, they shouldn’t be even playing mulitplayer games at all. Every multiplayer game with chat will have some idiots talking crap. So i think every new player who has played multiplayer game before should know to expect some idiots here and there.
So, if you still want to kill train for that reason, then i’m not sure what impression would empty starting area leave on new players.

uknortherner.2670:

Arcuss.6457:

GW2 needs open world duels.

No, it doesn’t. Why do people like you assume you speak for all GW2 players?

Arcuss.6457:

There is no good reason not to have it, ANET.

There’s plenty of good reasons and many of them have been stated on this very thread. You have simply chosen to ignore them.

Still, if you insist that this game somehow needs a cut-and-paste mechanic that only serves the interests of trolls and people who feel the need to show off every five seconds, then perhaps there should be a price tag attached – say ten gems per duel invite. Should cut down on the annoying in-game spam that duel requests would inevitably lead to.

Why do YOU assume you speak for all players? Some players want it and some don’t. Who are you to decide which one is right?

And where are those plenty reasons? I can only see one, repeated over and over again, just in slightly different words – trolling/harrasing, for which we came to conclusion that no one can predict what would happen if dueling would be implemented and trolling would most likely not be such a big problem as you claim it would be, especially if proper system for accepting/declining would be put in.
But i guess you simply have chosen to ignore those ideas?

Grimrist.3917:

serialkicker.5274:

Substance E.4852:

Jrunyon.3012:

LOL have you not been reading the forums at all? Anet just tried this and the backlash was phenomenal (and rightly so).

In my opinion, this should never happen. Yes to new armor skins, no to changing cultural armors.

Backlash was insane because Cultural Armor 2.0 cost 60 gold to make vs 1.0 that costs 160 gold when you as in the 10 transmute crystals to get the skin on good stats. It was also insane because it was one race’s armor. If you were human you just got a new effect, every other race got an entirely new armor set.

If they redid this so that every racial armor was reworked to be universal for the same cost the amount of happy people would greatly outweigh the upset.

To OP: I disagree op and would say this is bad idea.
Why don’t you consider that a lot of players bought it for the reason because it was unique to the race. And now you want anet to change that, why, because of your own selfish reasons?

Grimrist.3917:

Cons:
*All races lose some uniqueness - Losing the exclusivity within each individual race may not sit well with some people. Some people were forced into playing a certain race just to be able to wear the armor they want; the same people may have chosen a different race if these armors weren’t restricted in the first place.

I’m sorry but did you read what I typed at all? I’ll just assume you missed this part where I clearly consider what you’re saying as a con. Anyway, I’m not sure how wanting cultural armors become open to all races is any more selfish than wanting them to stay exclusive.

Tbh i haven’t read whole post, because there is no reason good enough you could give to make your request reasonable.

Well, you can say i’m selfish, but i’m selfish with a good reason. Cultural armor was exclusive since realease and whole point of it was just that. It’s only one armor for each class, one unique armor for each race and you want to take out even that?

Gw2 already lack with the variates between races. Cultural armor is one that is unique to race and might be a reason someone would join the race. Just like classes armor. How many people in beta or lunch of the game fell in love with class just because they saw cool looking armor that class is wearing on “class selection screen”?

In my opinion there should be even more race specific armors and skills and other stuff too, so it would give players more reasons to play other races. A lot of people, my self included, have all their toons human. Why? Because there is not much difference to play as other race, other then if you really want some racial skill or cultural armor or just because of appereance or roleplaying reasons…

Arrelaine.5692:

daimasei.4091:

And while you are at it, please make racial skills available to all races.

Also, allow any race to start in any city.

Oh! And please, make voice acting race-wide so I can put an Asura voice in a Silvary.

And if you can allow me to be a Charr with human appearance, now, that will be great.

After all, who need variety when we all can look the same

You can start in any starting zone you want. It’s called going to a nearby city and using the Gates. Ta da, now you can be a Sylvari in the human starting area. gasp
You don’t choose your voice-acting. All male and female of each individual race has the same voice actor. All Human females sound the same, all male humans sound the same.
You can roll a Charr that looks like a human. It’s called rolling a human. There are no racial differences except for appearances. Everyone gets the same class choices, same access to the rest of the armor. The only difference is racial skills, which amounts to all of about six skills. Most of which are healing. And they’re all on par with one another.

So in fact, the game is already homogenized, save for cultural armor, racial skills (which you lose in PVP), and appearances. Your only leg to stand on is the racial skills. Oh, and personal stories, which you failed to mention.

By voice acting he meant how they sound. Same voice actor can speak in different language, with different tone and dialect, using different words and phrases and more…
You can’t have a charr that looks like human by rolling a human. Is a peach that looks like nectarine a nectarine?
There are racial differences besides appereance – racial skills, elites, quotes, voice, movement, dodging, animations, attitude, home city, starting area, story, lore, DANCE…

There are trolls everywhere, even on forums and you still use them. Ok, not the best example, but i couldn’t resist.

I don’t see any harm in implementing this feature. Only potential way of harrasing would be someone could follow you everywhere, because they can see where you are on contact list. But even that is not likely, if you change the map, will they really tp to there and search whole map for you?

Besides this would be another perfect reason for anet to finally remove the stupid ability for players to see others where they are even if they are blocked. Who tought of this bright idea, it makes no sense.

Substance E.4852:

Jrunyon.3012:

LOL have you not been reading the forums at all? Anet just tried this and the backlash was phenomenal (and rightly so).

In my opinion, this should never happen. Yes to new armor skins, no to changing cultural armors.

Backlash was insane because Cultural Armor 2.0 cost 60 gold to make vs 1.0 that costs 160 gold when you as in the 10 transmute crystals to get the skin on good stats. It was also insane because it was one race’s armor. If you were human you just got a new effect, every other race got an entirely new armor set.

If they redid this so that every racial armor was reworked to be universal for the same cost the amount of happy people would greatly outweigh the upset.

I was not as much upset for gold as i was because it was meant to be race exclusive.

To OP: I disagree op and would say this is bad idea.
Why don’t you consider that a lot of players bought it for the reason because it was unique to the race. And now you want anet to change that, why, because of your own selfish reasons?

If you want more armors, ask them for new armors. But good luck with that.

Lol, so you’re saying you want to see more pointless titles? Why?

Would be cool if we could buy some animations from gemstore, so we can “apply” them to our characters.

I like the animation (idle) where my character stands and holds a weapon facing ground. It’s so simple but very nice. And i very much don’t like the other idle animation where my toons is in like “ready to attack” pose. I wish i could just disable this one and only have first one.

I would also like to see some idle animation without weapon equipped as i don’t like most of them on human.

I think this would sell really well in gemstore, what you guys think?

Was just browsing all medium armor skins today and i just can’t find anything for my thief. I’m so sick of trenchcoats and can’t even look at them anymore…

Sturmruger.3920:

They took it away because it looks sooo much better on the Norn gals

Well, that’s just…. like.. your opinion, man.

Poplolita.2638:

slurpey.6014:

serialkicker.5274:

Why did you make this thread if you have 1000+ posts in other thread about hows and whys on the same topic?

because people that complaint about the T3 armor made 140 topics as well. So OP has the right to open a new topic on that too.

Which is understandable. I don’t get how the OP can’t even answer himself this question.

Exactly, lol. You don’t need forums to see what’s the problem with the armor.

slurpey.6014:

serialkicker.5274:

Why did you make this thread if you have 1000+ posts in other thread about hows and whys on the same topic?

because people that complaint about the T3 armor made 140 topics as well. So OP has the right to open a new topic on that too.

They are merging threads, if you haven’t noticed. And he’s asking why and what is the problem with armor while he has 1000+ posts about exactly the same thing in other thread. Read them and you’ll know what is the problem with it.

Why did you make this thread if you have another thread with 1000+ posts about hows and whys on the same topic?

Manda D Ulin.2367:

Morinmeth.9823:

This. Unfortunately, Arenanet is just following what the community asks for. It’s not the company’s problem, trying to please the customers, the problem is that the customers are… well, don’t get me started.

The real problem is a minor section of the community cried and now another section of the community is starting to find out about it but only after Anet sided with the prior.

I said it once in this topic i think and i’ll say it again. Don’t assume players who use forums are the only one that didn’t like this crap. There are a lot of players in game, who don’t use forums or don’t post on it and they too didn’t like this armor bussines!

EDIT: A lot of players in gw2 are casuals and a lot of them don’t use forum, they don’t like forums in general (because let’s face it, a lot of gaming forums can be quite messy), or they just don’t care enough to go post on it if they don’t like something.

I’m no hardcore myself either, but i do read forums and i’ll take those few minutes to express my opinion if i like or don’t like something.

And to the poster you quote: Why they shouldn’t listen to playerbase? Even among some QQ topics, there are many topics and posts with absolutely lovely and acceptable ideas that players cam up with them and would improve game.
But if you think developers ignoring their players is good idea, then you should visit some other forums where games died because devs didn’t give a **** about anything but their own thing – earning as much money as possible. i’ll give you one example APB:Reloaded.

Now this i didn’t expect. Nice to see you came to your sense, anet.

isendel.5049:

While i totally agree with this, i think you guys are missing the point here.

For every one of us here on the forum, there are 10s in game. The people reading (and complaining) on the forum are a minority. And the people complaining, even if it seems the majority, is the minority due to the fact that usually if someone is happy with the game you know, he plays it instead of spending time out of it.

This said, I played a couple of hours today and i’ve seen a lot of the new armor skins around, especially in tpvp. Why? ‘cause lots of people like it. We really like the idea to play this great mmorpg for free, so we should stop complaining about other people financing our playtime.
My thief has human t3, but what’s the point of it? I like it. I couldn’t care less if other people, maybe not even humans, had something similar. I like it, and i go with it. That’s the whole point of the game guys..

Again, they will be making money out of it, a lot. All the complainings on the forum won’t make them change their mind and why? Because it’s going to take a couple of clicks for them to notice that for each people compalining, 10 are buying the new armor. So, the majority of their playerbase is probably enjoing the add..

And FYI, i haven’t bought the new armors (yet, probably gonna go for the flamekissed with my asura ele though..looks decent and i already have light asura t3 on 2 characters..)

Now wait a second there, mister. Just because players on forums are not the majority of playerbase that doesn’t mean they are the only ones that don’t like the change. You know, there are people in the game who don’t use forums and they still don’t like this crap.
And yes, some non-humans in game find it cool to be able to buy human armor now, but next time anet will do something else which will kitten of those or any other group of players.
If they keep giving us crap, than in half a year they’ll be left with few very casual players, who logs into game so rare they even don’t care what devs do with it.

Carighan.6758:

From testing, I don’t think it’s broken. But as expected, the Phantasm wasn’t meant to move and it cannot handle it well given how it’s utility is based around being a reliable stationary wall to hide behind.

It has nothing to do with being stationary. We all know warden is stationary. The problem is he won’t attack while summoned sometimes.

Looks like we can never have all phantasms working properly in the same patch.

Guhracie.3419:

serialkicker, don’t misunderstand my tone. I’m not apologizing for them. That’s just my prediction of how they would word a response to this uproar if they did decide to address it.

I know, i got your point right. I’m just saying they can’t get away with apologises forever.
But, its’ true, they should at least try to do so, instead of ignore us.

Guhracie.3419:

Ashen.2907:

Harper.4173:

So – last time I posted this thread was on page 3. We are now on page 8. Could they really not have noticed it all this time?

Its almost two in the morning during a period that is often paid time off in some industries. Not excusing a lack of response I just wonder if the people who can make a call on this are on their way to grandma’s house for turkey and pie.

This thread has been around all day long. If they were going to respond, they would have done it by now.

Personally, Anet, I think it’s strange you didn’t have some pre-planned statement to acknowledge the complaints that you had to know would be incoming. Here’s my suggestion:

“Hi guys! Sorry for the delay in my response, but we’ve been busy with the update and the holiday. Happy turkey day for those of you in the US! It’s great to have all my relatives in town and I’m feeling really thankful for many things this year.

We understand that many of you are upset or disappointed with the direction we’ve taken with our latest set of gem store armor skins, and I personally understand that to some degree. Some responses have been inappropriate and over-the-top, but I do appreciate the respectful discussion from the rest of you.

The fact of the matter is that there are variations on these armors that we feel make them distinct enough to stand on their own as unique and separate from the sets you are associating with them. Again, I apologize to those of you who are disappointed, but this is not something we are going to reconsider. I also cannot comment on the potential for future skins inspired by legendary weapons or other cultural armor, except to say that nothing is off the table. Thank you for bearing with us, and have a happy holiday, everyone! I’m off to eat some turkey!"

Anet, if you want to hire me to write these up for you, I might consider it. You have my email address.

They can apologize all they want, it’s not gonna change anything for me.
I can take one, two, three apologises, but more is just pushing it.
“Yeah, sure let’s release this crap, we can apologise later and it will make all go away.”
Yeah, not for everyone.

korelg.7862:

Avster.1935:

korelg.7862:

so much whining… if you don’t like it, don’t buy it

also, the funniest thing is that Norn look better on the Human tier 3 than the humans themselves xD

Kid. It’s not whining, it’s proper understanding if what is being done incorrectly.

Sir, it is whining… what is so bad about having slightly reworked cultural armor available for all races? I mainly play Norn and let me tell you, I’d love to have those mid and heavy armor available for my human char… most cultural armor have really beautiful designs, it would be a shame to not use them more

Of course you want it as Norn. If you would be human and one of those players who worked hard to get this armor, BEACAUSE it was unique and race exclusive, then you would later see all races having it for less then half the price, would you be happy then?
You have to understand that character progression and making it unique by aquiring rare skins is a lot of players’s one of the end goals and that’s why they are still playing, especially in this game where there is pretty much nothing else worth to do, since everything is rng, low reward or boring grind.

Anet response: We’re sorry you are not satisfied with the patch, we listen to all your feedback, positive and negative. We have big plans and good stuff coming! In the meantime, would you like new Twilight skin with fire effects for 10,000 gems? wink *wink

slurpey.6014:

When does the day come that players understand that game content is virtual and not their property. Any company can change, delete, add or whatever their own Virtual Content at any time of the day. Users agreed to that as they signed up for the game or purchased it…

Or rather when will anet understand, that playerbase is the reason they have a job and earn money, and that playerbase will not put up with their crap forever.

hash.6287:

Ok so next step. I have whole Emblazed set with runes + Pearl weapons with sigils. I only need rings and earrings from laurel vendor + backback(from i don’t know who). But…

I would like to have set for dungeons(i have it) and WvWvW so my next request to you are tips about making gold. I was watching a couple of videos and i didn’t find something interesting.

I have read few threads and i found only a text about trains in Queensdale and Frostgorge Sound but it is boring as hell and for a short period of time. Are the crafting professions profitable? I was wondering about farming T6 mats but i have only 80% MF.

“Emblazoned” is just a name for one of the armor skins. Doesn’t have to do anything with stats. As other people suggested, berserker armor is most used and best in pve.
You should already know that berserker has following stats: Power, precision, critical damage. Armor with such stats is available on tp, you can get it with tokens from dunegons like “Citadel of flame” and “Crusible of eternity”, you can craft it, loot it from enemies etc.

As for the gold and t6 mats… Farming t6 mats is… well not really much more fun then champ train. In fact you will get most mats (t5 and t6) from champ farming in frostgorge sound. This is imo the fastest way of getting mats. And maybe gold.
Another good way to make gold are dungeons. Citadel of flame p1+p2 will take you max 30 min to finish and will give you about 2.5g + loot. Another pretty fast dungeon is Crusible of eternity, you can do all three paths in about little more then an hour (depends on group). So that’s another 4.5 gold + loot. (btw CoE gives quite a lot of loot in comparison to other dungeons and also since it’s lvl 80 dungeons it can drop some nice stuff like t6 mats.

Also, i have nothing against rangers, but the truth is you will have a hard time finding “speedrun groups” for dunegons, if you’ll want to do those once you learn the dungeons.

Oh and another nice way of making gold is gathering mats in open world – chopping trees, mining ores… the most profitable would be orichalcum ore and ancient/orrian saplings.

There are other ways to make gold, but i think these are most popular atm, and probably best.

an advice: don’t rush with content too much, take it easy, nothing in pve is really “must have” except exotic gear is highly recommended for dungeons. Asc are really not needed. And the rest is just cosmetic stuff.

Have fun!

OP translation:

I’m so awesome i can solo this kitten, while all other are complaining the content is too hard. Dude! Did i mention i’m awesome? I like watching these idiots dying so hard, it boosts my egooo, oh yeah!

Way too many mobs that takes forever to kill. If you stop to help, you die. If you want to solo, you must keep running and even that will be frustrating as hell.
So if you want to experience the whole content you must join a zerg, or forget about it.
Sorry, not impressed with the patch.

same error here

a t s e.9614:

Maledictus, they must leave the dungeons as they are . They are already such a pain in the **** with pugs and stuff . It’s my only source of income for my twilight that I probably never get if they keep fixing “bugs” or “exploits”.
“If they ever fix “stack” or skip I want dungeons gold to be buffed by 2 . Just imagining all the problems it would create if we couldnt stack … We woukd be forced to run in circles like some mindless dumb chickens. For the love of god stop QQ about dungeons before arenanet “fix” it in their own way.

You know, it’s ironic that you don’t want them to fix “exploit”, which makes killing boss way too easy and quick, while you made a “QQ” thread about champ farming and how it should be nerfed because people (guess what!) stack and kill champs with autoattacks!

Everytime i want to help someone, they are on NA servers… Scr*w you guys, i’m going home! :/

Anicetus.1253:

AC 1-3, (CM?), TA up/fw, SE 3, HotW 1-3, CoF 1-3, CoE 1-3, Arah 1-4.

Same goes for every other class. None are needed, but some are highly appreciated and mesmers usually are among those-

This is like asking “Why does guardians have so much support?” or “why does warrior do so much damage?” or “Why does engineer have so much utilities?”

Those are all class specific features, their core mechanics, like illusions and phantasms are of mesmer.
You don’t even have to use a build that focuses on clones at all and you’ll still be using them in every single mesmer build. But if you trait for phanstasm build, then of course they will be major source of damage, since mesmer’s base damage is pretty low.
Most of mesmers are relies on clones, utilites and avoiding damage.

Yes, would be cool if guilds had more features, something that is guild exclusive, so it would actually be rewarding and compelling to be in guild. Right now, like many said, you can do almost everything in game without guild. All guilds in the game are mostly the same, the differences are only: type of gameplay guild does, the kind of people that are in guild and the size of the guild. Aside from these, there is nothing unique that you could see only in certain guilds, like idk, if guild is active and good in pve, maybe they could have some trophies and maybe “guild achievement points” and guilds that are more active in WvW would have trophies and stuff from there. And if we had guild halls, there could be a display that shows what players participated in what content like guild missions for example. Or if guild achievement would be added, we could learn achievements doing guild only dungeon runs and missions and by hitting certain amount of points we could get “guild chest” that would reward us with something usefull for guild.
Things like that would give players more reasons to play with their guild and not just representing for guild bonuses and to get commendations, and would also make players more loyal to their “main” guild. They would feel more attached to the guild, because they would see in guild hall that they helped earned guild this and that achievement, reward, completion…

There are so many thing they could add to the guild i could talk about this for a while..

You’re asking for more nerfs, really? What you gonna do then, farm for a month to be able to get 100g? Stop asking for nerfs for every single thing people find profit in it. Instead rather ask for buff where there are needed. Champ train might be the most efficient method to make gold for some, but it doesn’t mean it’s out of control. You could make way more gold of cof p1, before nerf.
If you want them to nerf everything, then just quit game now, no point in playing then…

Vayne.8563:

serialkicker.5274:

rhapsody.3615:

serialkicker.5274:

declan.3968:

No, just no.

I have a full time day job and only play this game for around 10+ hours a week, and I’m thankful that I can use a small portion of my salary to substitute for wasting hours in a game.

Oh sure, if declan thinks “no”, then, who are we to argue…
Screw the people who can’t afford to put money in virtual money… Right?

The option is there for gems to gold. It isn’t fair to judge people who use a feature that is available to them. People play a game in different ways and get satisfaction from playing that way. If throwing some money each weak into the gem store is making someone enjoy the game, then that’s fine and it isn’t up to you or anybody else to decide it’s wrong.

Please first read op post and the post that replier is replying to.
I have nothing against gemstore or anet putting items on gemstore or people spending real money on gem store. What i meant is, that skins or gear shouldn’t be available ONLY trough gemstore. Sure, maybe some stuff here and then, but anet keep putting new stuff on gemstore and almost none that could be obtained trough playing the game, unless it’s ridiculous rng, like black lion chest.
And i was repling to declan, because he says, he has a job and can afford to buy gems, therofore screw other players and op idea is not to be considered, which i disagree with.

There have only ever been three armors in the gem store. That’s because when they come out with three armors it’s a set, one heavy, one medium, and one light.

There are far more armors in the game. There are 8 sets of dungeon armor, for example. There are also at least a couple of sets of crafted armor. And there’s armor that drops from mobs and armor you can buy with karma and badges of honor.

I’m not sure that 4 sets of armor in a year (one of which I believe was here from launch) is particularly overkill.

I said “stuff”, which means not only armor, but anything they put on gemstore.
And of course there are a lot of armors already in game, would be pretty funny mmo if no armors were be in game when released. We’re not talking about them, we’re talking about new ones that are added to the game. And it doesn’t matter if it’s only 4 sets, that were added on gemstore, the point is they haven’t added any set that would be obtaniable trough fun and challenging way, all we get is gemstore and ridiculous rng in which case you don’t even know if you’re be lucky enough to drop it.

rhapsody.3615:

serialkicker.5274:

declan.3968:

No, just no.

I have a full time day job and only play this game for around 10+ hours a week, and I’m thankful that I can use a small portion of my salary to substitute for wasting hours in a game.

Oh sure, if declan thinks “no”, then, who are we to argue…
Screw the people who can’t afford to put money in virtual money… Right?

The option is there for gems to gold. It isn’t fair to judge people who use a feature that is available to them. People play a game in different ways and get satisfaction from playing that way. If throwing some money each weak into the gem store is making someone enjoy the game, then that’s fine and it isn’t up to you or anybody else to decide it’s wrong.

Please first read op post and the post that replier is replying to.
I have nothing against gemstore or anet putting items on gemstore or people spending real money on gem store. What i meant is, that skins or gear shouldn’t be available ONLY trough gemstore. Sure, maybe some stuff here and then, but anet keep putting new stuff on gemstore and almost none that could be obtained trough playing the game, unless it’s ridiculous rng, like black lion chest.
And i was repling to declan, because he says, he has a job and can afford to buy gems, therofore screw other players and op idea is not to be considered, which i disagree with.

declan.3968:

No, just no.

I have a full time day job and only play this game for around 10+ hours a week, and I’m thankful that I can use a small portion of my salary to substitute for wasting hours in a game.

Oh sure, if declan thinks “no”, then, who are we to argue…
Screw the people who can’t afford to put money in virtual money… Right?

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

serialkicker.5274:

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Mesmer is literally the most survivable class in melee range. If you are struggling to stay above 90% on a Mesmer you won’t be able to do it on any class.

Please enlighten me, mr. pro, maybe record a dungeon run where you use for example sword+focus in berseker gear and can stay above 90% health at least 70% of the time in combat.
I use ruby orbs, because it fits my playstyle, i won’t be bothered to use necessary utilites and skills to keep myself above 90% just so i can have that 10% bonus if it doesn’t fit my preffered playstyle.
If you can keep yourself above 90% that doesn’t mean you’re doing more damage overall then other mesmer below 90%.

You’re quite condescending. But i’ll be nice and answer you politely instead of engaging in your lame polemic.

1. Where is this 70% number from? Scholar runes are better if you are there for 24% of the time. That’s not too crazy. So if you’re going to use some number, why not use the real one?

2. Special utilities? You have 2 dodges, vigor on crit, Distortion, and Blurred Frenzy. This is part of every mesmer sword build. If your “playstyle” doesn’t include using these things optimally, your playstyle needs to change.

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GuFc1D-jTU

K thx bye

Sorry, didn’t mean to be rude there, but anyway, from your video, yes, “you’re there” for at least 24% time above 90%, if that’s what it takes for runes to be worth it, i don’t know, i haven’t done the math. Still, this is orginized dunegon run, you guys are even on voice chat. I mainly play with pugs atm, so there are not always boons flying around properly at the right time and people are not that coordinated. It’s pretty easy to stay at full health and clear the dungeons in minutes if you have good team,a t least one guard is very helpfull, i’ve done such runs myself, but playing with pugs that happens maybe 1 run out of 10.
And there is also other content aside from dungeons, roaming, taking on multiple enemies by your own. Will you be able to stay above 90% in Orr most of the time?
But, if you’re saying you gotta be there 24% of the time, then it’s not such a big deal, i think most of mesmer can stay above 90% for 24% of the time.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Mesmer is literally the most survivable class in melee range. If you are struggling to stay above 90% on a Mesmer you won’t be able to do it on any class.

Please enlighten me, mr. pro, maybe record a dungeon run where you use for example sword+focus in berseker gear and can stay above 90% health at least 70% of the time in combat.
I use ruby orbs, because it fits my playstyle, i won’t be bothered to use necessary utilites and skills to keep myself above 90% just so i can have that 10% bonus if it doesn’t fit my preffered playstyle.
If you can keep yourself above 90% that doesn’t mean you’re doing more damage overall then other mesmer below 90%.

Caramel Ham.4891:

The current “meta” which is followed by dungeon speed clearing guilds is

Scholar Runes>Ruby Orbs

Ruby orbs being the poor mans choice. So Strength runes are out of the question since speed clearing guilds keep a constant stack of might during fights.

I actually switched scholar runes for ruby orbs for my mesmer.
I get quite a lot of power from ruby orbs as well + a lot of precision and 12% of critical damage, that’s a lot. I think it’s more usefull then scholar’s +10% damage while above 90% health, because how often are you above 90% while in combat? I guess it depends on your build and playstyle, but being berseker (who usually will use such runes) your health will mostly stay about 40%-80%, unless again, you’re staying in the back with your greatsword.
At least that’s my experience so far.

What i would do is increase passive speed for 15% for all classes. Then further i would give medium armor clasees additional 5% and light armor classes +10%.

So basically at the end:
Heavy armor: +15% speed
medium: +20%
light: +25%

For gods sake, this got to be one of the most annoying things in the game – descreased speed while in combat mode.

My mesmer is already slow, then put me into combat mode and it’s slow freaking motion. Why, anet, why? This does not make harder at all, just makes it more annoying and time consuming.
I see zero reasons for this and even less logic in it. I put my clone or phantasm out to attack the enemy, i’m at full health, didn’t even touch the enemy and i suddenly can’t run at full speed? Say what?

Please remove this nonsense from the game. I could have legendary by now, for all the time i lost for moving slower!!!! Kidding, but seriously, remove, delete, eliminate, get rid of, destroy, erase, neutralize, throw it out, make it disappear, do something!

Who the f*** wants to play an eagle that walks on two legs? Seriously people! But i guess lot of you, lol.

Largos for me too.

luckyguse.2674:

Mesmer:

Dear Anet,

I would love to have an out of combat speed boost that doesn’t require me to have a focus in my off hand or have those ridiculously expensive travelers runes . I really want to play WvW with my Mesmer but its painfully slow as it is.

Thank you.

This.

And also, MH pistol!

I tried once full soldier gear and i tought i was doing well until i switched back to full berserker and saw a huge difference. I would very much like to play different builds, especially considering that i’m running berserker gear on all toons, but unfortunately anet decided to make other gear way less efficient. If you’re in full soldier gear, then sure you’ll survive a bit longer, but enemies will die slower, which means there is more chance your teammates will die and then you are alone trying to fight enemy which you can’t kill (bosses) because you lack dps and they can’t kill you if you’re at least decent player with soldier gear. So, in short, you’re wasting time with never ending fights.

The thing is, if you’re in soldier gear, you only help yourself to stay alive longer, you don’t help your teammates. If you’re good enough to survive in berserker gear, then there is zero reasons to take soldier over berserker, because you survive in both, but in berserker you do way more damage.

Vayne.8563:

serialkicker.5274:

Wukunlin.8461:

in which case healers should heal enemies too

In which case enemies should damage their allies too or should magic just work for players?

You mean like players can be knocked off cliffs and enemies can’t. It’s a game…I’m proposing a solution to a perceived problem.

Trying to throw logic at an idea that will fix a problem doesn’t cut it.

No, i mean if you want immersion – players damaging players, then enemies should damage their allies (our enemies) too. Like enemy swinging sword all over the place should hit and damage his ally too.

Also, you’re proposing a solution to what problem? Are you saying it’s a problem that some people like playing with all offensive team? It’s their choice. You’re not in that team, so why would you care? And some of those people think other builds are useless… Who’s right here? No one. You all have your own opinion and you can all play however you like.
Of course it would be nice to see all classes and builds being perfectly viable in most content, but unfortunately this isn’t the case. You want to “punish” players that play certain playstyle because they like it and they think it’s effectiv, but you don’t like it…
Well, it’s up to anet to properly balance classes.
Anyway, i’m not saying all berserker is the way to go to play this game, i’m saying don’t “hate” on people who play this way, they have the right to play their way as much as you have to play your way.

Wukunlin.8461:

in which case healers should heal enemies too

In which case enemies should damage their allies too or should magic just work for players?

Sword obviously – lowest cd, can interupt multiple targets if you “doble click” skill, if not you spawn clone.

Bright.9160:

serialkicker.5274:

Bright.9160:

Yeah, you go ahead and smash your face against your keyboard for money and feel good about it.

In the meantime, I’ll be in Arah, being broke.

Why do people hate so much on poeple farming cof? I agree there are quite some idiots you can meet there, but there are nice people farming too. If you want to farm gold the hard way, fine, no one forces you to do cof if you don’t like it.

Because I don’t think the easiest dungeon in the game should be the most rewarding and the fact that scrubs and sh*tters make more money by doing something a trained monkey can do better than most PUGs than I do by actually doing challenging content just strokes me the wrong way.

First: What makes you think cof rewards you the best? Afaik all dungeons give same rewards (that is same amount of money and tokens). Actually, if you want to go into details, you should be able to make more money PER run doing CoE then CoF, since cores are way more expensive and also you get way more loot in CoE.

Second: Cof is not by far easiest dunegon. CoE is very easy too. You just need to know the drill. Same as for CoF. You can still fail miserably in cof if you get crap party. (slave driver, acolytes and final bos wipes are easy with lame party). So CoE is not hard at all, it just takes more time to complete.

Third: People do CoF for money because it’s the best way to get money. Now if that’s the funniest or not doesn’t matter in this discussion. It’s simply the fastest way. If anet would make cof harder, people would just switch to next best thing.

I farm cof from time to time and yeah it gets boring and yeah i’ve met some crazy people that are now on my block list. But that doesn’t mean cof farmers are bad people that others should hate. Some poeple just don’t wanna spend time in something that is less rewarding if they have a “better” choice. It’s not really their fault tbh, it’s more of anet, because they haven’t balanced stuff. It’s also bad rewards all over the game. You must know people have different goals here. Some of them just want to kill stuff, do content and others maybe have done content already or not, doesn’t matter, but they want legendary or something else that is expensive. So what they gonna do? Go farm? You can’t farm, loot is pathetic. For those people the other aspects of the game are simply not rewarding enough.
I’m pretty much in the same boat. When i want something and it’s costly, i’ll go do some dungeons to make money. I won’t go do hearts (that i’ve done) or do events, farm mobs etc. Sorry but if i’m gonna focus my time on earning gold i’m gonna choose best option for earning gold. When i feel i wanna have fun, i’ll choose something else then cof.

Ok, sorry for long post, but the important thing is it’s prettymuch anet’s fault. The game is not rewarding enough, if it would be, not all “gold runners” would run cof all the time.

I agree on defiant. Just a kittenin horrible design. They should make it as skill that bosses apply it every 30 sec for 10 sec or something like that, becase right now they have it 100% whole fight, this is just plain stupid.