Guild Wars 2

Look at all these filthy casuals who didn’t step into fractals before the rework and don’t have stacks of globs already

What are you talking about. Dungeons are dead and there’s no queue times for anything in this game. you just post your lfg and wait for ppl to join

People have been constantly complaining about the collection item for Nevermore IV: Friend of the Owl spirit and this still hasn’t been addressed. I have made tickets to support about it and here’s the responses
http://puu.sh/lIv91.png
http://puu.sh/lIv9n.png

Basically, complain enough and we’ll get it is what I’m seeing from this response. Can we at least get a confirmation that this has been noticed by anet and is being worked on?
There was a reddit post addressing the need to fail events for the precursor collection and it has been stated that it is not inteded https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3qveea/rant_can_we_not_have_precursor_collection_depend/cwiw93c

>ignorant and hate on thieves for whatever reason

The reason thieves are “hated” on, or don’t see any play in raids is because they bring no other utility than stealth, which is not a thing. This is not ignorant hate, this is simply the fact that the class has no other possibilities of usage other than stealth. The idea of making bosses require stealth is fine but don’t start calling the lack of a need for stealth ignorant hate

I didn’t see that before making this post. Oh well can you give me your opinions on the matter? Will this make wvw more accesible for people who don’t already play it?

I feel like I shouldn’t be posting in this forum. All WVW I’ve ever done includes karma train in EOTM for leveling alts, but I have a serious question for all you seasoned wvw players out there. Do you find the current Server v Server system good? Imo this is the thing that’s keeping me away from wvw. I don’t find it appealing due to my server being basically rekt everytime i open the wvw window, and upon entering the battlegrounds I see no commander tags. Does this basically mean that I have to pay gems to server transfer if i want to experience actual wvw?

On the same subject, do you think a system where guilds “join” up with alliances ,or “worlds” ,like the Red, Blue, Green “World” would benefit this gamemode more?

Drath.9702:

I think that food is great, but people don’t move when they are lawlhundredbladesfacerolling mobs and/or stacking

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Oh and yes, seaweed salad would obviously win, but that stuff hurts your wallet badly if you’re poor like me.

^ Only reason I mentioned this. I see all the time on metabattle or buildcrafter’s videos them mentioning the Seaweed salad instead of the Exp Remnant and people don’t even know this exists.

Why does everyone refuse to learn about the Experimental Remnant?https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experimental_Remnant It’s such a good food and I never see build crafters even mention it

hf doing dredge fractal w/ engi

little kitten

zerk because i’m not a scrub

Iris Ng.9845:

Greetings,

This weekend comes with the first time ever we are able to try out the new Raid content. My plea to our beloved top players and elite guilds to refrain from posting your World First completion video on the public venues like the forum and reddit during this weekend. I’m personally very excited about the encounter and would love to figure my way out the encounters without getting spoilers unavoidably (I’m an avid forum and reddit reader and a very curious cat). Let us try our best wholeheartedly and relive the moment of first timers to a challenge without any direct guidance. That said, you guys are free to post your amazing feat when the beta weekend is over. It would brew up some really nice discussion and feedback.

If this plea reaches you – top players, I thank you very much for your understanding.

P.S. Please be kind and tag [Spoilers] on your bug and glitch reports. I totally understand that those issues need to be addressed asap but they may still be some minor spoilers for the rest of us. Anyhow, have a blast!

>Read title of forum/reddit post
>see it’s about raid completion
>dont click on it
Wow i just saved your life

perry.9645:

Quiznos.4296:

I hope you don’t need to hit lvl 100 fractal… I was looking at the maths. Looks like you’ll need all the normal plus 5 infusions (for 70 AR), AND 3 plus 25 infusions to total 145 AR needed for the minimum 1% health loss per tick @100

I hope we wont be able to just outgear agony and actualy have to avoid the boss attacks.

>avoid attacks

Anet laughs in the distance

As we all know, dodging is an exploit, so in the new fractals, agony will always tick , even when you’re not in combat. We hope this will incentivise players to drop some of the dps gear and stack up some nomad’s pieces

khesi.2786:

AC meta zerk bla bla bla party (it was only group with full run so I joined I have meta build) so my only fault was using staff on guardian (it’s normal for me to use staff in pugs on AC mainly for might and skill no 5 to stop trash durring skipping in tunnels) and there was one ele

- staff on guardian isn’t meta.
- staff is useless
- You guys are not meta build group etc.

after first path (very smooth fast and without wipe) he left. we get another player and do p2+p3 even smoother than before.

But I wonder if ppl think meta it’s only one build for every encounter in game I mean I know there is no more too many places for staff on guardian except some tagging and swiftness but cmon if You know what you’re doing than there is no way You can play always with same traits and weapons yes You should be meta for efficiency but there are some encounters where You should change your traits/weapons and You should be able to adapt for rest of your group even on metabattle.com you have some other options for meta build.

>staff guardian isn’t meta = true
>staff is useless = true ,if you have a competent party

There is 0 reason for you to use #4 , like literally. You said you had a meta group. That means you had a PS warrior or at least some eles who could stack might. Never use your staff 4 ever if you have any kind of might coverage. If you keep your staff in a secondary weapon slot, again there is no reason for that. Using a mace+ torch/scepter would have been way more useful.

The only usefulness of a staff is a quick swiftness boost that you can do by simply double clicking your staff in your inventory , using 3 and then double clicking your gs. Again, that isn’t very useful if you have Retreat, Thief that uses Thrill of the crime, warrior that uses warhorn or elementalists that stack swiftness properly.

>join lv 40 pug
>metazerk whatev, i’m on ele
>get mossman
>thief wants to do it underwater( this is important)
>kill him underwater
>it’s like 2 am and i’m really bored so i ask them if its ok if i switch to my engi cuz im bored af
>thief starts flaming me for picking engi cuz it’s “a trash class” and “i dont want to carry an engi through cliffside if we get it”
>ignore him
>ascalon part after dulfy
>i start charging up my blasts to skip stuff
>thief starts pulling every mob and we just kill everything
>at this point i ask him the reason why he cares so much about a meta team comp if he’s too incompetent to use the meta tactics
>his response → “lol u think i trust pugs”
>get aids
>die the next day

[FGS]: How long has it been, boy?

[IB]: 1 year and 20 days exactly

[FGS]: Nothing is ever built to last. I still remember that fateful day. They placed me against the wall, beat me senseless, forced me to confess to a crime I never commited, then destroyed my one and only precious gift I got from my grandfather, my Fiery Rush. They didn’t stop there, though. They forced me to use it against the wall. Over and over again. They just watched as I kept trying to kill a sparkfly that was just too strong for me.

[IB]:Dad, please. You told me this before. You were even talking in your sleep. I should have listened. Every night I kept telling myself that it won’t happen to me. Every night I kept ignoring the warnings. The little bump on my Frost Fan should have been a clear message. They were going to do the same thing to me as they did to you.

FGS got up from his chair and walked around the police station. He glanced at his son. As he stood there, he remembered himself sitting in that exact same chair just over 1 year ago. It had been 3 days since his arrest. Maybe it was his own fault, he thought to himself. Maybe he should have tried harder to protect his son. But he failed. His son was going to be trialed just like him, for a crime he did not commit.

2 Years have passed ever since people found Variety laying dead in the Trader’s Forum. The case is still opened. It seems like even after condemning FGS, the Meta Police was still not satisfied. They just hungered for more and more influence. And they could never be stopped.

IB picked up the latest number of The Dungeoneer and read some of the headlines. “Icebow arrested this weekend when attempting to smuggle illegal DPS over the FOTM border” “Is this the end of the meta?”. The text was taunting him. He opened it at a random page. The title of the article was “The meta is changing at an alarming rate”. It was an interview with Nike. “This is more of a disaster for the people who loved him, like thieves, than it is for him”. IB closed the magazine and started crying.

All this time, a suspicious figure had been watching them from the window. He was wearing an empowering aura, and had a rather odd Phalanxey look to him. He grabbed his banners and swiftly ran away when a police officer opened the window, leaving behind only a note that said “lv 50 zerk meta guard thief 2 engi GEARCHECK mossman rdy”

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

24k AP warrior goes confused when we tell him to stop activating healing singet because it has a passive effect as well.

I DONT EVEN

Or you can learn that precasting signets is actually what you’re supposed to do due to the Signet Mastery trait

GUTB.8436:

So, on my first character, I am trying to find the fun in the combat system. I’m really struggling. I rolled a Charr Thief.

1. The rune/skill/weapon system in the game seems incredibly counter-intuitive. I’m sure this problem will go away when I learn the game — are there any meaningful tutorials that assumes the system makes no sense and explains everything?

2. Going by the few ability slots, rotation doesn’t seem complex. In fact, it seems extremely casual. However, the system mixes in action elements like dodging which appear to be necessary in order not to die. To me, Wildstar is a joke because it is too action-oriented — is GW2 going to be plagued with the same problem?

3. Thiefs. I understood going into this game really doesn’t have a stealth class, but so far I just don’t see how this character is going to go out ganking anything if the opponent sees you coming a mile away. Escapes seems powerful though…is Thief really just for trolling?

4. Voice acting. It’s….atrocious. Maybe my expectations have been too heavily skewed by WoW and SWTOR, but is there some way to listen to my character in battle without cringing? Do you just become desensitized to it? Are there other races with better voice acting? kitten .

>play wow for 5 years
>superior action combat mmos come around
>"wow what a kittening trash combat system"
average 16 year old

can i get my 4 brahams pls

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Ropechef.6192:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:
Just because the druid line and staff is all about healing, it does not mean that druids will just stand there spam heals…

yes they will

okay, bye!

cya

Literally nothing will change other than pugs maybe killing some mobs cuz they want extra points.

Evapor.6849:

It’s so sad that even on reddit all those plebs rocking necro and ranger flairs think this will somehow make their class more appealing, like they are mad at the world because they picked a garbage class at launch and never bothered to change. Elementalist is a high skillcap class, smallest hp pool in the game on light armour, it only makes sense that the highest risk has the highest reward to play. Even if raids were remotely challenging I doubt icebow would be used anyway as their are much better survivability options or you could just go with the glyph of power to keep even more chill on bosses.

Don’t worry ele’s will still be able to carry raids, even if anets whack-a-mole balance policy continues the exact same thing has happened with fgs and look where eles are today.

Zenith.7301:

stambogalizi.8356:

Zenith.7301:

We just have to remove the monopoly on the vital boons (might, fury) from just two classes who also do some of the highest damage and provide insane utility (banners, glyphs and blast fields).

So that means nerf everyone down to the same kitten tier level and we can all be mini-necromancers. Gr8 idea m8

Totally better than giving classes the same tools but in a different manner

Yeah, because what we need is more power creep than we already got last patch.

I know your precious ele/warr is near and dear to your heart and it might be too convenient, but games are not balanced by just buffing everyone, particularly PvE.

Alright , you need to understand that ele and warrior have been nerfed. Particularly PS was nerfed with the spec patch and ele will be hit kitten tuesday and was hit even harder when fgs was gone. But they’re still here.
I don’t see how dragging everyone down to the same kitten tier level is good balance

You don’t have to give ranger the capability to stack 25 might, you just have to buff his spotter and frost spirit so that he might actually see more play.

Eponet.4829:

Thoughts on this evasion/lifesteal tank build? You know, since they’ve said that survivability is going to be a thing.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZEQNAsYVl0MhSnYhTw4JQ/EHwElPNij2YfBLXHqTgAIDA-ThSBABccIAKUHAlq/YmSwrU+R0+DTcCAwTbgGHBAAeAABAOAGuwFe4Arv+6rv+6N8wDP8wDXKAzVaB-e

You literally changed a single trait from the usual zerk thief

Zenith.7301:

We just have to remove the monopoly on the vital boons (might, fury) from just two classes who also do some of the highest damage and provide insane utility (banners, glyphs and blast fields).

So that means nerf everyone down to the same kitten tier level and we can all be mini-necromancers. Gr8 idea m8

Totally better than giving classes the same tools but in a different manner

Or they could buff bad classes instead of nerfing good ones

Can’t wait for the nemesis video claiming necro has completely replaced ele

deep freeze is exploit enjoy ur ban

The only point I was able to understand from OP’s post is that even if you have a meta party, some people in your party like the ele might be kitten at the game even if he has scholar + zerker or whatever and that we shouldn’t deny any all necros/rangers that join our party.
OK, OP , but do you realise that just because they are a necro, that doesn’t mean they know how to play their class? They might just as well be using some weird kitten like axe or staff; or a ranger using bear + longbow all the time.

I consider all pugs bad until they prove themselves not to be bad. And if they do, I’d rather have a good elementalist than a good necromancer in my party imo

Actual dps tierlist ( not including exploits like icebow or using whirl against a wall for higher dmg)
1)Hybrid Necro
2)Normal Power necro
3)Executioner necro(coming soon)
4)Healing guard
5)Warrior that doesn’t drop banners
6)Warrior that drops banners
7)Other classes are irrelevant cuz things like stealth and reflects are exploits

Miku Lawrence.6329:

SE3
- Warrior can you use Fear Me for the mobs at dredge car so we can aoe safe?
- sorry i am no pve god
Car adds die to icebows and car goes invuln.

thats why you take a necro

why would you even play warrior? Necro has more dps

should get some exploiting icebows and reflects in there to skip 90% of the content

I’m not the type of person to ask for gearchecks when pugging, but after today you bet I will.

Pugging Hotw p2 “all welcome”- sort of party; 3 people from the same guild join. They have some weird builds but I don’t mind them. We go through very slowly, they all die at the svanir + 2 quaggans boss over and over but eventually we manage to finish it. Then they can’t get through the underwater skip part and they just keep dying and just standing there in the middle of the skip waiting to be ressed so i start pinging them the waypoint to respawn. At that moment they kick me.

By the way, OP. You’ll get more people to agree with your stupid conception of what dungeons should be if you post threads in the General Discussion section instead of “Fractals & Dungeons”

Erebus.7568:

dutchiez.7502:

Maybe it’s time to realize that development on dungeons has pretty much come to a complete stop and complaining on the forums isn’t going to change anything.

+- yer… it is a saaaad thing that something so simple to fix is ignored

but if that truly is the case… on the bright side 3-4 months untill B&S

I mean, this guy is either a complete idiot or this is a low quality bait thread. Either way I don’t see why you’re responding to him

completely agree with the 2014 stacking meta being so bad

If the elite specs were better, then the meta would change and some people would require you to run them. But they aren’t. Just look at tempest or dragonhunter. Why would you need to run them in the current dungeons/fractals

Stop trying to push this mentality. Why would you give people more rewards for taking longer to do something? It’s a concept I don’t understand.

dlonie.6547:

Jerus.4350:

I…. I’m sorry…

I just did the same thing. Watched the brazil video, thought “huh, what’s up with all the hate?”

But if that’s how he behaves on runs…yeah. kitten him.

practice what you preach eh?

Gear up all your classes and play whatever your party requires

Jerus.4350:

stambogalizi.8356:

Pugging 50 with nemesis and his healing power guard bud:
http://puu.sh/jNaA1/cbc47c76a5.png

also this http://puu.sh/jNaAH/f2da2fe6ef.png

After seeing Brazil sit down and talk with the guy I can’t help but feel that this community does it’s best to take him out of context just to demonize the guy. I’d be curious to see the rest of those conversations, not just the bits that are obvious bingo phrases.

Oh I also forgot to screenshot the bit where him and his healing guard were trashtalking the other necro we had in the party for using assassin’s armor and staff

EDIT: I actually did
http://puu.sh/jNn7F/f31d345a46.jpg
http://puu.sh/jNnal/cc4352119b.jpg

Jerus.4350:

stambogalizi.8356:

Pugging 50 with nemesis and his healing power guard bud:
http://puu.sh/jNaA1/cbc47c76a5.png

also this http://puu.sh/jNaAH/f2da2fe6ef.png

After seeing Brazil sit down and talk with the guy I can’t help but feel that this community does it’s best to take him out of context just to demonize the guy. I’d be curious to see the rest of those conversations, not just the bits that are obvious bingo phrases.

After seeing Brazil sit down and talk with the guy I can’t help but feel sorry for brazil for not seeing his flawed logic.

Pugging 50 with nemesis and his healing power guard bud:
http://puu.sh/jNaA1/cbc47c76a5.png

also this http://puu.sh/jNaAH/f2da2fe6ef.png

Stop playing necro

ham.8209:

Arantheal.7396:

Why do most people not search for Mesmers / Rangers / Necros?
- Because their AI often enough breaks the stack (doesn’t include necros).
- Because they don’t bring unique group-buffs (spotter is never needed, since the party is already on 100% crit-chance without it)
- no reasonable dps
- are usually brought by people who are special snowflakes, new or refuse to play the meta because reasons, hence turn each run into something awful per default.

And now we speak -again- about why you think you’re surrounded by elitists:
- Because you can’t read the lfg and join groups that were not searching for you.
- Because you don’t open your own lfg, clearly stating free-for-all.
- Because you don’t join a guild that is doing casual runs guild-internal. They exist, just saw such a recruitment text today in LA.
- Because you’re too shallow to accept that the mayority of people just farms dungeons for the gold, not because they like them, and rather do so fast instead of “immersive”, so stop trying to shove your preferences down the “elitists’” throat.
- Because you are the minority, just like RP’ers. They organize themselves in guilds. Do the same.

it will be ok . let it out and have a good cry more often you just might feel more better . #justsaying oh btw some times it is far better to do thing,s all by your self . where you are challenged and do not have others with you on the same map at the same time. forcing you to go it alone and make it work out for your own self . #justsaying

Seriously advising you to take some english classes before writing something on the forums

ham.8209:

stambogalizi.8356:

ham.8209:

stambogalizi.8356:

ham.8209:

stambogalizi.8356:

ham.8209:

Elitism is harming this game fully with out a question at all . if this game was like gw1 i like to see these crackers take on a mob . and watch them loose badly . or a boss champ even . the thing is they will never get is they ant a box of cracker jack,s and all that . by any means. maybe one day Anet will put out a real HM mode like in gw1 for this game and see how these kids like them apples LOL

then people will find the best 4-5 classes to do that HM on and the other classes will cry elitism again

they can only wish they could .but they would not be able to have 4 or 5 classes. as with HM it would be just only you and you ONLY . and lvl110 beasts to fight and lvl 120 champ bosses to fight as well . but if you got lucky enough to beat it by your self the rewards would be very much worth it. and that would put a end to all there crying.

then who cares if it’s a solo instance? what is the point you are trying to make?

nice you ask the question even tho you missed the point . and it is simple with Elitism does not belong in this game at all . not one part does it belong here in this game not even in guild,s . thus this system would put the end to it.

so your solution for elitism is removing dungeons completely and making them into solo instances? great idea 10/10

i can see you missed my points all together . and no dungeons would stay but the champs in them would be lvl 130 . and you could only have 5 players go in at one time. and the solo instances as you put it would only come in pve. and there would be bosses all over the place 3 or 4 in every map . and the drops from them would not be soul or account bound too . meaning you can use them on any toon . and the bosses would be lvl 120

It’s hard to get your points when they are so badly written. I really can’t understand your sentences..

ham.8209:

stambogalizi.8356:

ham.8209:

stambogalizi.8356:

ham.8209:

Elitism is harming this game fully with out a question at all . if this game was like gw1 i like to see these crackers take on a mob . and watch them loose badly . or a boss champ even . the thing is they will never get is they ant a box of cracker jack,s and all that . by any means. maybe one day Anet will put out a real HM mode like in gw1 for this game and see how these kids like them apples LOL

then people will find the best 4-5 classes to do that HM on and the other classes will cry elitism again

they can only wish they could .but they would not be able to have 4 or 5 classes. as with HM it would be just only you and you ONLY . and lvl110 beasts to fight and lvl 120 champ bosses to fight as well . but if you got lucky enough to beat it by your self the rewards would be very much worth it. and that would put a end to all there crying.

then who cares if it’s a solo instance? what is the point you are trying to make?

nice you ask the question even tho you missed the point . and it is simple with Elitism does not belong in this game at all . not one part does it belong here in this game not even in guild,s . thus this system would put the end to it.

so your solution for elitism is removing dungeons completely and making them into solo instances? great idea 10/10. Why not also make the game a singleplayer? Because as we all know, mere human interaction can lead to people being mean to eachother, and we can’t have that.

ham.8209:

stambogalizi.8356:

ham.8209:

Elitism is harming this game fully with out a question at all . if this game was like gw1 i like to see these crackers take on a mob . and watch them loose badly . or a boss champ even . the thing is they will never get is they ant a box of cracker jack,s and all that . by any means. maybe one day Anet will put out a real HM mode like in gw1 for this game and see how these kids like them apples LOL

then people will find the best 4-5 classes to do that HM on and the other classes will cry elitism again

they can only wish they could .but they would not be able to have 4 or 5 classes. as with HM it would be just only you and you ONLY . and lvl110 beasts to fight and lvl 120 champ bosses to fight as well . but if you got lucky enough to beat it by your self the rewards would be very much worth it. and that would put a end to all there crying.

then who cares if it’s a solo instance? what is the point you are trying to make?

ham.8209:

Elitism is harming this game fully with out a question at all . if this game was like gw1 i like to see these crackers take on a mob . and watch them loose badly . or a boss champ even . the thing is they will never get is they ant a box of cracker jack,s and all that . by any means. maybe one day Anet will put out a real HM mode like in gw1 for this game and see how these kids like them apples LOL

then people will find the best 4-5 classes to do that HM on and the other classes will cry elitism again

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

BunjiKugashira.9754:

100% 25 Stacks might-uptime – Warrior
Mini-timewarp, Reflection and Stability for as long as the fight takes – Guardian
Stealth, Defiance-stripping and good Vulnerability-upkeep – Thief
100% Fury-uptime, perma-fire-field, Great aoe-damage, aoe-blind or vuln – 2xEle

Stealth, portals, reflects and ofc time warp – Mesmer (can replace Thief)
Tons of vuln, Great dps and combo-fields – Engi (can replace 1 Ele)

Can’t argue with much of this But it’s way lacking in details

BunjiKugashira.9754:

A pet that most people don’t seem capable of controlling and the tendency to stay out of range for all group-buffs – Ranger
Ok, let’s assume the Ranger knows what he does: 7.5% extra group-dps from fs and some extra precision – Ranger

Ranger can swap pets bringing a free CHOOSABLE utility or buff on the pet. The fact some people only have bear and stalker doens’t mean there is nothing more.
The only time pets are in the way is when the ranger pulls, and the person is ignorent Can provide 20 vulnerability in 3 seconds,
has a water field,
can be used to provide fury, and swiftness,
can res ppl who are downed while maintaining DPS (search and rescue trait if needed),
pet can be used to solo the door at cof1 in a 4 man party.
and spotter and the spirit… yes that 2…

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Some vuln and boon-stripping (which is only useful in some niche-situations) – Necro

Necro:
Wells: boonstripping , booning through cleansing, AOE blind 4 times protection, AOE healing…
Some CC, no more bleeding out, AoE vampiric to compensated for healthloss in groups allowing longer +90% health if needed,
chills and weakness to reduce enemy DPS.
and some damage…

Sadly Ranger and Necro don’t really bring anything to the table that another class can’t do better.

Boonstripping (which is used very rarely in the current dungeon scenario) – thief

aoe healing; protection; chill; weakness are all thigns the current meta comp can acomplish better than a necro can and not have the downside of a dps loss

spotter; frost spirit and vampiric aura while they are nice they dont make up for the loss of 2 icebows