Guild Wars 2

SplendidDust of AncientSuns.8453:

I have crafted 2 ascended weapons, and will soon have a third. I won’t be worried if armor crafting piece by piece requires a similar crafting process. You don’t have to be a hardcore player to get this stuff IMHO.

I must say however, the new players will find the grind hard to endure, as the older players already have most of the mats saved up beforehand. Starting with little or no mats will suck.

15 temple events and 25 dungeons isn’t hardcore? Ya you can do it overtime, but I sure don’t want to do 15 temples and 25 dungeons per piece of freaking armor.

Yaki.9563:

Legendary has no RNG. You just buy the precursor off the TP and craft it.

Mystic clovers say Hello there.

I am in love with Tribulation mode now. It tough, I’ve used a ton of lives, but I’m going to continue through it because I am finally having a ton of fun doing it.

ilr.9675:

I run more healing or vitality in my Dungeon mains than I run power…. And I’ve been lucky to never be kicked once despite that. So I’m not a Gear Checker…

That said…. If the rest of the team finds a Pugger who’s new to the run after this update, and DOESN’T have an AW as their mainhand Melee… I will /votekick on the spot b/c they definitely will not be competitive with the rest of us who all will have crafted either a Zerker or Assassin’s mainhand by that time.

I don’t mind carrying guildies. But I’m absolutely not going to carry puggers and I won’t expect anyone else to either. Anyone who thinks that’s elitist, go ask the rest of the dungeon forum if I’m exaggerating. I guarantee they’ll tell you exact same if not worse.

I find this whole post hilarious. Man that person doesn’t have all those extra stats that come from going exotic>ascended/sarcasm, but it’s okay if i run useless stats on my armor like healing power yay. Plus I feel a huge amount of jealousy coming off your next post about people with legendaries. /never going to read your posts again.

Arthur.9243:

Something is not right here. Why are people saying Clocktower was harder than Liandri?? I did the clocktower in roughly 10 tries. Liandri, in over 20 tries, still eludes me.

Because liadri was only hard because not all classes or build could defeat her, just because of the way it was designed. This is going to be hard purely because of game mechanics. Since everyone is going to be on an even playing field, which in all ways is a much much better way to do “hard” content.

I would freaking love this, but I can already feel the people whining about how everyone with a legendary would have an “unfair advantage” if this was possible. I would be amazing and would actually give a real definite reason to get a legendary.

Siphaed.9235:

Nuka Cola.8520:

I heard the whole original team who made gw1 left, Robert left so who is still with anet that has passion for gw as whole? Time will only tell i guess but its not looking pretty (especially endgame content)

You are aware that he wasn’t an “original team who made GW1”, right? His linkedin page puts him at A.Net for just over 2.5years from 2011. He was a hire on most likely only for Guild Wars 2.

It’s better to not pay attention to anything that Nuka Cola posts on the forums. He likes to say a lot of “facts” that have no factual basis and is really just what he feels is happening, it’s all over the Dungeon forums. Him and the rest of his guild is the main reason I don’t even read the dungeon forums anymore tbh.

Anyway back on point, it really sucks that Robert H. is gone, like everyone else has said he seemed to have his fingers on the pulse of what the community was feeling, but I think that was because he enjoyed playing the game unlike what I see with a good portion of the rest of the devs who post on the forums.

Edit: Added some more input.

…I have nothing to say. Did you not read the update notes at all, they are just making Legendary Weapons the same stats as the Ascended weapons that are being released at the same time. Which means no difference woooow.

Being awesome. 15char

goldenwing.8473:

First, I’m NOT a fanboi and would be horrified to be called one.

Second, I have 2 accounts, 44 alts, accounts activated during headstart, game also bought for family and friends. Not going to talk about contiguous monthly gem store purchases.

What I’m gonna say has nothing to do with this discussion, but how do you not see yourself as a fanboi? I mean 2 accts and 44 alts that’s $340 worth of just plain old character slots. That in my mind is the definition of fanboi. This is coming from someone who has put over 2200 hours into the game.

This tonic is amazing and when it wore off in only 5 mins I was incredibly unhappy. I mean really there is no real point to a full half hour cooldown, make it 10 mins or something anet.

Fail? What is it actually supposed to do, and there seems to be an internal cooldown that does not show up.

PERSONAL merchant express. I REALLY hope this is a troll thread.

draven.4796:

similar issue that I posted on here but from a different angle.

I have seem gear kittens, (can I say that?) snobs then. As people here say ignore em or dont join em. The root of this problem now tho instead of needing great gear to be able to complete the encounter, task, event. You need it to complete for the reward and do 5% damage. If it didnt matter like it didnt before you wouldnt get grief for you gear in open world pve.

Positives : champion being worth while killing is great!
Negatives : 5% damage requirement plus high pop, farming community = bad imho. Anet can only fix the 5% bit, they cant fix the farming community or gear/build snobs.

having good gear and a great build should be a matter of pride, not derision.

I really don’t understand what you were doing wrong to not get loot from the bosses, but I run these on my PTV guardian and all it takes is 1 single hit to get the loot from these bosses even in a massive zerg. I’m talking a 900 damage hit at most.

Archon.6481:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Sorry, but regardless of whether you play mmorpg or any other video game, there is always a goal to reach … or there is no fun or sense of accomplishment. My hubby loves his xbox. He plays all the games he likes to unlock ACHIEVEMENTS. You might play a game for a few hours without some type of reward, but i dont’t think you would play for 500 hours. I love GW2, but part of what i like is having the chance for loot and achievements.

Have you happen to have played any FPS’s before by any chance? I do believe those games have nothing to strive for. I have thousands of hours into TF2 and got nothing for it.

FPS’s have competitiveness to strive for. Being better than someone else, its basically what loot does in this game.

TooBz.3065:

Ok. But ascribing one of the seven deadly sins to someone is not generally a good way to have a conversation.

For illustrative purposes only here is the counter example, “Why shouldn’t I get two rewards for two characters. You could get two rewards also if you weren’t too lazy to level up an alt.”

Why hasn’t this come up more often during this discussion? The only argument most people have against alts is that the people with them get more rewards and are therefore greedy. I think the people without alts are lazy and should stop whining and make a 2nd or 3rd character if they want the same rewards as people who put 2-3+ times more work into the game.

First Yaks Bend LA talks about quaggan themed movies titles, now we have a full on Quaggan party!

Quaggan Party

Fortus.6175:

sirflamesword.3896:

If he does that when you are wearing a couple of pieces of PVT gear(or a few points into toughness traitline) then you can come on here and whine about it, till then no one should really care.

really, just really? Did you even bother to read the OP?

There should be an option to delete this stuff, why do people bother to post things without reading first?!

I’m talking actual armor not just the ~200-300 toughness you get from a weapon and a piece or 2 of jewelry. And read the stuff about trait lines please.

If he does that when you are wearing a couple of pieces of PVT gear(or a few points into toughness traitline) then you can come on here and whine about it, till then no one should really care.

Then why are you even posting? A thief did the only thing he can do, he ganked you.

Sorry but it is completely impossible to be using PTVitality armor and only have 12.5k health…even for an ele.

I’ve been having problems ever since the free preview weekend.

+1000…I honestly don’t know why this isn’t in the game. Someone will whine about making legendaries less “legendary” which is plain bs.

Bump because this is annoying.

Varonth.5830:

Nunganok.4590:

Evan Lesh.3295:

12) You cannot have bank access in the mists because anyone can port there for free.

17) This will not happen as it affects way to many things in the game. Why do you have that many things stacked at once as to need a stack size of 1000? The problem is not the stack size.

12) And yet people can port to the mists, walk through the portal into Lions Arch and get to the best bank, trading post and crafting stations for FREE

17) You’re right, the problem is not the stack size. Its the fact theres NOTHING to use our mats on. Theres SO LITTLE crafting/cosmetic content in spvp that you end up with multiples max stacks of PvP crafting items. Ugh, how do you guys not get this…

12) And when you want to go back to your previous location you either run or pay the waypoint cost. The Mist -> Lion’s Arch seems as it is for free, but it isn’t. It comes at the cost of giving up your position in the world.

Or you could you know…go to a borderland for the crafting station use the Bank there and then log out to char select to get back to where you were. This comment from Evan made me completely stop reading and disregard his whole post because it is complete BS.

And it should only show up in the cities, if not only LA.

For the last 4? days there has been an endless amount of Quaggan jokes consumed in Yak’s Bend Lions Arch. I think because of this the new nickname of Yak’s Bend server should be Quaggan’s Bend. And FYI we can’t help that were awesome.

http://i.imgur.com/phZ4sIg.jpg

Hamfast.8719:

PvP? What’s PvP?

Nope. Never PvPed in GW2. Wouldn’t know where to start, and don’t care to. Good thought though.

Wow way to go being an idiot to the person who was actually answering the question. He was right though if you have the same runes in your pve/pvp armorset it counts both.

I really wish this would get a reply…really annoying when you are halfway to tiger and the login screen still says dolyak o.O

RaynStargaze.6510:

Just so we get on the same point here..

Ostricheggs who claims HgH is OP so valiantly actually has:

ALMOST 1200!!!! tourney games on ladder! (so 1200 games ever since ladder started counting which is an insane! number)
over 5000!!!! matches played on engineer

honestly WHAT kitten! Ostrich is just that good – the build doesnt really matter in his case.

The number of other engineers doing solo qeue and still making top1000 is pretty darn limited (in fact there are 0 others i know of other than Ostrich but you can educate me on that!)

Then again you can make top 1000 with a few lucky wins in a row so maybe its not that representative.

Here are a few easy pro tips how to counter HgH engineer for easy instawins:

- STAY ON RANGE whatever the kitten you do dont get in close – all engi dps comes in close range/nades get harder to dodge point blank and blowtorch is only really worth using when in close
- DODGE SHRAPNEL
- DODGE BLOWTORCH
- KITE ENGI HgH engi is actually really bad at kiting unless the opponent allows himself to be kited – aside from the chill grenade on 16 sek cd and the aoe cripple from pistol on 25 or 20 sek cd (which can both be dodged very easily) – so in a logical row with what i said previously just kite the engi yourself instead and walk out of his nades (yes you dont even need to dodgeroll as long as you dont get too close)

ezezezezez

Me. I’m at the low end like ~900 but still there.

SmoothHussler.6387:

I’ve been interrupted by imob. Just saying he’s not altogether offside in his claims.

Ya it happens, but it only seems to on certain types of skills. May be a bug tbh.

Ostricheggs.3742:

IT’S ONE kittenING SECOND OF IMMOB

ONE
UNO
SECOND
one

On a 24 second cooldown. Literally there is a 1/24 uptime on immob. It is literally the shortest immob in the entire game on the longest cooldown of all immobs in the entire game.

ROFL

Sorry Ostrich, but you will never changes some peoples minds. He probably has gotten killed by a really good HGH engi one to many times and believes it is super OP.

Minion of Vey.4398:

The weird thing is the 200 rank you get for winning in tpvp doesn’t even apply towards your title achievement track. So if you tpvp much and win a good amount you can be in a situation where you’re rank 35 or something and not even have the avenger title yet.

I’m going to be very close to 40 before i get the Avenger title. I don’t even want to know what rank I will be before i get Ransacker etc. I think at least that should be changed to total rank points instead of point per match. It would also be nice to up the rank points per win in tPvp a bit.

Mind has been blown.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

and how does GvG work in a game without dedicated healers?

About 1000x better than conquest ever will.

SneakyErvin.3056:

Yeah usually end up the same way. Overzealous zerks faceplant then me and a friend finish off the boss.

Most commonly it’s warriors laying there, dirtnapping. I would be tired too if I swung a sword like they do.

Thank you for this post, because it describes 99% of all Zerker Wars. Most people don’t have any problem with people running zerker sets…it’s just when that person who has no idea how to stay alive with it.

I’m glad it’s not only me with this problem. Was just thinking that they didn’t want my money and that was okay with me.

Yep just happened again for a guildie and I…

I just created Juggernaut yesterday(thanks to some awesome guildies and a lot of luck from the mystic forge), and I just want thank whoever designed this amazing hammer. I love how much detail went into the hammer itself let alone the chromatic effect on the armor(who wouldn’t want to look like a solid gold statue while standing in LA http://i.imgur.com/ijoT89S.jpg). Having Atlas holding up the little globe of Quicksilver is really cool. I just thought since I didn’t find a specific Juggernaut thank you thread and it needed one.

PS I have a feeling I’m going to be messing with dyes for awhile ^.^.

Carighan.6758:

Munkee.3542:

official

Care to show a proof? At least a post by one of the ANet posters confirming it?

I think you are confused son. At least read the whole post instead of seeing 1 word and going off on a rant because of it.

Edit: added some to my post.

I REALLY don’t know how people think juggernaut looks like anything other than a hammer. It makes me wonder if you all have it on a charr/norn and it hasnt been resized right. It looks freaking amazing on my human guard.

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I just have to put in here that I would be fine with a little more quicksilver coming off of Juggernaut. But plz plz plz do not change the look/size/shape of the actual hammer. It is by far the coolest looking and has the most detail out of any weapon in the game and I don’t want that broken. FYI I want to shake the hand of whoever designed The Juggernaut it is SOOO freaking amazing lol.

Edit: A few spelling mistakes xD.

MH Pistol would be soooo freaking sweet. Need to start a petition for this for the next expansion. It would go well with the idea of the mesmer imo anyway.

Cirax.9231:

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Caffynated.5713:

Switching weapons cancels your movement abilities.

I just checked WW, Rush and Savage Leap and their ranges are increased by swiftness.

ele never swaps weapons. that is probably why RTL is not cancelled

Attunement change for ele’s is pretty much swapping weapons to other professions. For example, Sigil of Battle activates upon attunement switching. During RTL, the utility bar and attunements both become deactivated.

pot.6805:

Hold on, if RTL sucks as much as eles claim, why do they use it?

Where did anyone say it sucked? Perhaps it’s not as OP as people think it is – of all people who have complained Rtl to be massively OP, none have actually understood all of its mechanics.

Bonus points if you figure out why making Rtl the same as other charge moves (affected by chill/cripple, swiftness, and able to cast instant utilities/swap weapons) would make it better for bunker eles.

And I love how it’s only people that main Ele that say that RTL isn’t massively OP. ANYONE who has seen what RTL can do on Spirit Watch would have to be completely blind or stupid to not think it is OP. It’s less detectable on other maps, but anything that allows someone to completely disengage from a fight is OP IMO.

Voodoo.1709:

I don’t do spvp often so out of curiosity how much effort or time does it take to acquire the set in PvP? If it is reasonable I wouldn’t mind giving it a try.

I just got to Wolf rank today which would allow you to get the set, and I have 545 tournaments played. It takes a pretty considerable amount of time to get that far.

I would normally say stop playing hotjoins…but I don’t really wish you on any of the solo queuers in tpvp.

I agree with you Stormleaf. The best fix IMO for Ele runners is to make RTL effected by cripple/chill.

Stormleaf.1769:

mursie.3681:

I see all these comlpaints about the ele. they are warranted sure…but what about the freaking ranger? i’m seeing rangers carry orb from pedastal to raven in less than four seconds … taking almost no dmg and shedding any attacks and roots..one because of evades..and too because roots like inf strike don’t work on half the freaking map. they deposit orb..and bam are back at pedastal before it even respawns.

If they’re doing it in less than four seconds, they’re hacking =P

Either way it still only takes about half as long as an ele does if the ranger is even halfway decent. Plus like he said they have a million and a half evades and all that.

forrae.6708:

i was in a group with 4 mesmers. i was the only nonmesmer, on my ele.

on a related note, ive been against a team of 4 guardians and 1 warrior. needless to even mention who won that one.

what needs to be put in place is some system that tries to limit it to only 2 per class on a team. not sure how easy that would be to implement, especially considering you can just make a team of 5 insert class here and queue up.

I would rather them figure out how to actually put 2 groups of close to equal skill together before this. But that is for a different thread.

Back on topic I feel that on Spirit Watch alone is where the Ele is OP. Any other map and you can work around it and make it useless, but Spirit watch it just seems unfait tbh.

Wow…just wow. This is the elitism that will make PVP even more of a wasteland than it already is.