Guild Wars 2

This surely will sound like a noob question, but let me explain:
Since HoT cc I’ve had serious problems dealing with cc. Every class has multiple cc, some even on low cd and thus spammable, a lot are even huge AoE cc. Break stuns are limited and you can’t dodge all cc. I’ve tried to get as much stability as possible but not every class has access to a lot of it.

Sometimes when there are 2 players I just get chain cc’ed to death and I can’t really do much. Got any seggestion? This is seriously killing pvp for me.

Depends on set and game mode.

Generally speaking, Revenant with shiro and a target wins without question. He can travel half pvp map with 3 skills. Great damage in pvp, meh damage in pve.
Thief and Ele both have great mobility and damage too.
Warrior has a lot of mobility too, though in PvE you won’t really move a lot.

ApO.1498:

Zenith.7301:

ApO.1498:

Is this a joke? Why all mmo have epic boss while anet give us a sloth boss in next raid …
I really hope it’s a joke … I try to defend anet in his choices for years, but this is too much.
Please wake up anet, you will continue to lose your players …

I mean…..

You fight Sabetha, basically an enlargened average human female model with no distinct armor or features, let alone much of a backstory.

This raid doesn’t make much sense storywise to begin with.

I never said Sabetha was an epic boss, I hate her … Interesting fight ok, but ugly as hell and no presence. VG and Gorseval are good. But I’ve a question, where are the devs who created Dhuum, Mallyx ? Ok Mallyx was a big gorrila, but scary and epic … We just want this kind of boss, big, beautiful and epic. Not a simple sloth.

That’s not a simple sloth. Look at his eyes. There is clearly Satan himself inside that sloth.

Amineo.8951:

Enaretos.8079:

Amineo.8951:

You’re lying, I’m sure you bought gems and exchanged these for money, there’s no way you can get a legendary in a week that way and that’s not playing…

Anyone with a decent amount of motivation can make ridiculous amounts per hour. I remember my first of trading as being the best of my life : started with 200g, got to 2K and made a Sunrise. A month after I reiterated, made 2K gold again, made Twilight.

It’s not hard if you really know what you’re doing and you don’t need to spend a dime on gems, although I occasionally do it when ArenaNet releases something I like as my way to support the game.

Playing the TP is playing the game, just more efficiently. An hour of TP a day and then you never need gold again and can sincerely enjoy the game without always being worried about your gold per hour

That’s still not playing for me, that’s gambling in another way and manipulating people like some kind of toys in a selfish way…

It’s really up to you. I prefer to gamble for 1 hour that farm for 5-6 hours some events I don’t really care about, and use the other 4 hours to do things I like.

Besides, With 2 months of gambling I managed to get enough gold for an entire year, and I still have a lot left. It’s not fun, but definitely the fastest way and less painful in the long term.

I swear i just changed my whole ascended light armor from celestial (used it in WvW) to zerk like.. 1 week ago. I’m going to kill someone if this becomes meta.

Ele staff still do a kittenton of damage with staff fire, ice bow ecc. while granting a lot of fury, might and vulnerability. I would say at least 1 zerk ele will be a must.

Doggie.3184:

They turn your character gold like Juggernaut’s plat? How do you get all the gold relics?

And do you need the actual unused weapon skin consumable to make them? ;/

no they don’t make you gold.
and no you don’t need that if you drop them. You need the base one if you want to forge the gold skin.

Kinda agree with op, in dark they look gray, i’m ok with having them shine less but they are super ugly like that, completely gray.

Did the event 3 times, always bugged. Anet fix this please…

No she is completely bugged, did the event 3 times and 3 times no vendor.

Writ of Exaltation is just a wasted spot for better traits. Take Superior Aria.
I realize why you take Writ of the Merciful, but I would say that’s a waste too, because you already do enough heal and moreover that 205 healing is too small to be useful in zergish situations. Also, your light fields could be a problem for water/fire fields. Pure of Voice is definitely better for more condition cleanse.
For food you must use Lemongrass Poulty Soup. As sigils, consider Life/stamina on staff and…. dunno, maybe water/restoration.

Anyway, I don’t really know how much a pure heal build is useful on WvW, since most of the heal comes from water field blast. Since you are a commander, I think it’s better to run full soldier with a 0/0/2/6/6 build (or or 0/0/6/6/2 if you are more selfish) with staff/hammer. You can try it and decide yourself what is better

Hi all, I have a question about how the blindness condition works.
I play a dps guardian so it’s really important for me to understand exactly how this works. So… here’s my questions:

1) I put blind on an enemy. Afterwards, that monster use a skill that hit 3 of my party members at the same time. The blind will only miss one attack, right? Is there a way to predict which person will receive the miss or is it random?

2) Let’s talk about delayed attacks, like elementalists’ Churning Earth. The blind should be put when he start casting or when he hits in order to miss the attack?

3) On PvE, are there some attack that can’t be missed? (i’m not talking about dredges that are immune to blind). For example, the Ettin in the Uncategorized Fractal often hits me even if he has blind on (i’m not talking about the long animation attack, just the normal swing) . I tank him so i’m sure he only hit me, despite that he just “bypass” my blind.

Thanks for your answers

Because it’s OP. Mix the regen trait (adrenaline) + healing signet + healing food + steal health, add to this the fact that you have the best mobility in game and a trait that let you break away from immobilize and you are going to be an unkillable moving beast.

9/10. Nice name, just that Nyrgren sounds a little hard to pronounce :P

Folgore Vanquisher – Fat Guardian that just jump in combat, no matter who the enemy is. Can be often seen on Seafarer’s Rest borderlands facing 50 enemies alone. Of course, most of the times he dies, but sometimes he manage to get out alive. That’s why he’s a vanquisher.

9/10. Considered that I don’t really like light armor on charr, I have to say that combination is quite good.

Here’s my lovely Charr guardian

Why should they ban him? He is probably just a guy (or a group) who knows how to play with the TP and have a lot of money, enough to try to rise the buy orders and sell them later.

He’s just smart.

kokiman.2364:

Steele.2784:

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And where is the fun in that?

Whatever.. at least you posted it in the map chat/forum to get some validation.

It’s not like waiting a day and going around maps to get mats is fun at all.

Raine.1394:

Otaur.9268:

Sorry, search feature is not good, so I decided to post it here.

Tequatl Revamp, looks like we got a challenge on our hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AVuhltsBoM

I prefer to call it a failure-fest. It better captures the essence of the experience. Challenge is a completely different experience in my vocabulary.

Teq will follow in the mold of Grenth and the Karka Queen. There will be some initial interest if the reward is high enough, then it will simply empty that part of open world PvE. Humans are not built for continual, near-assured failure—we tend to want to avoid failure on anything near an epic scale.

Yeah, the problem here is:
- If the reward is good, this is going to be a zerg party without the challange ruined by the zerg.
- If the reward is not good, It’s going to be ruined by the fact that no one does it.

That’s a big problem of Gw2: There are challanges, but are just ignored because the reward is less than farming events.
On the other hand, I hope the reward will be bad, so we can use the event as a sort of guild raid.

stof.9341:

youkai.2394:

Yeah well, just change the term to whatever fits better, but the fact remain the same.

More than that, in Gw2 there isn’t a really great challange at the moment….

Which is why adding more pure no-skill grind based statistics improvement makes sense right?

I never said I’m ok with ascended weapons, nor with the method to obtain them (if you read my post I also pointed it). I just said that the time is ok as it is.

Yeah ok, the word “challange” is wrong, I get it.

Wethospu.6437:

I think you have understood wrong the term “challenge”. It’s not really about how much time you can spent.

Yeah well, just change the term to whatever fits better, but the fact remain the same.

More than that, in Gw2 there isn’t a really great challange at the moment….

dalendria.3762:

youkai.2394:

The point is that the Gw2 community wants everything instant. Farm is boring, give us 1 legendary per player via mail!

Why is it that whenever anyone talks about how ridiculous the requirements are for obtaining max stat gear, someone says “we” want it instantly? That is an extreme statement without ever considering a middle ground.

I personally do not want anything instantly. I like many others enjoy goals. If gear is in a game, I assume it is useful. Yes, useful. Everyone always says that you don’t “need” Ascended. True. But this is not about needing it. It’s about using it.

If Ascended was not useful, then why even have it at all. Because it is “useful” in playing the game. period.

So yes, I want the most useful gear in the game. However, I do not want to have to spend months obtaining it. That is the issue. Many of us know how much we play and how often mats/weapons have dropped for us in the past. So we already know that it could be several months before we can craft our weapons for our mains.

Worse for those of us with alts. It could be 1/2 a year before we have completed crafting for all characters.

Is 3-6 months reasonable for obtaining max stat weapons? At launch, the answer would have been no. And that answer would have come from Arenanet because they had various ways to obtain Exotics and 2 weeks was the average time.

Ok, let’s put it this way.
Ascended weapons are an high level item that MUST be hard to obtain (because if it’s easy, 2 days and everyone has it, then why putting it?) of course if you want to gear every char with 6 weapons it will take a lot. I don’t see what’s wrong with that. High level gear, in any game, took time to get. If you have a lot of alts you have to put more effort in it.

You say “we know how much we play”. That’s true indeed, but if you know you play, for example, 2 hours a week you already know that gear all your char at maximum it’s going to take time. I just think this is totally normal. You have to think to ppl like me that can play even 10 hours a week: If I make an ascended in 2 days where’s the challange?

Lastly, you need 2 weeks if you gather all the maths yourself and if you don’t optimize your farm.
If you have some gold to spend (not more than 20g for example, which is basically the price of a skin) and you make sure to farm the right place (ex orr temples for dragonite ore), In 1 week you’ll have your weapon, or less.

I agree with you if you complain against the fact that they are putting stronger weapons hard to get, that is against what they said at start (well ascended is not really that much more powerful than exotic, but anyway…), but the time is right as it is.

Still I don’t get why ppl spend money on ascended magic find…. it’s so useless, a rare / exotic is more than enough. And don’t tell me " to be more useful to the party", if you wear magic find you are useless anyway.
Ok, the infusions, but I think it’s more the outcome than the income.

Well if you buy all the materials at day 1 with inflaction risen to the stars, ofc it costs you 200g. I spent something like 25g to get to 450 and I had them back by solding 2 ascended material (One sold at 14g and the other 8g. Day 1 ofc).

Oh god, you guys sees farm in everything.
500 dragonite ore = no need to farm, just do event and WvW
500 things from champion bag = no need to farm, just do event, WvW, dungeons
500 things from dungeon = same as above.

Of course, if you want an ascended weapon in 5 days you need to farm like a crazy, but seriously you can make it by spending some gold and doing your normal activity.

The point is that the Gw2 community wants everything instant. Farm is boring, give us 1 legendary per player via mail!
PS: An ascended weapon is just 7% (I think) better than an exotic, no need to do it if you don’t want.
PSS: And stop compairing Gw2 to Gw1. They are different games, they only share the same lore.

Nirvana.8659:

And the simple fact that the duels become a “confusion stacking race” should tell us how this runes impact the gameplay and every condition based class , in a negative way.

Wait, I can even agree with the rest you said but the text above is wrong all the way.
This is a build which increase confusion stack and duration BUT unless you are fighting against a player who doesn’t even notice the confusion (a noob, let’s say), you can’t simply go and use only the skills that give confusion.
Against a good player you won’t be able to stack 25 confusion not even in your dreams: he will evade, stun you, maybe use condition clean… you’ll need to play smart and use your other conditions to take him down.

Holesale.2640:

This isn’t really overpowered.. A Mesmer can pull the same amount of confusion if not more if built correctly and have better up time on it while making clones and avoiding damage directed at them sooo how is this overpowered maybe if you put them on a confusion Mesmer yeah..but when is the last time you ran into a confusion Mesmer since the confusion nerf in wvw or in tpvp/spvp?

They give us more build options and everyone is omgz nerfit, next patch when the 6th rune has a 30 second Internal CD you guys will whine about not having build diversity again.

And come on..if you swing wildly with more than 5 confusion stacks on you, you deserve to go down. lol

I have to agree with Holesale.
Even if engineer should be one of the most versatile classes there aren’t really that much viable builds.
This is really good and, trust me, a good player know how to defeat a confusion engineer and if he can’t, he should know if it’s time to retreat. You just have to evade the concussion bomb and pry bar (stability).

ShadowPuppet.3746:

youkai.2394:

That damage in the screen was with 25 stacks of might on you and 25 of vulnerability on your foe right?

Because without them I can barely reach 3,5k of crit with bombs…
EDIT: even with the boons and conditions said above I can’t surpass 5,5k scit, I had food too… that quite strange.

Did you have a banner of discipline? 25 bloodlust? all exotic zerker gear, ascended jewlery so on and so forth? And most importantly did you actually test against the same target?

That’s why I asked xD.
I have exotic zerker and ascended trinkets (some of them are power-toughness-crit), I have bloodlust. I didn’t had the banner of discipline and I tested it not with the same target but with a wide range of tharget with different levels (veteran, champ, legendary) but still even without that a difference of 2,5k damage sounds a little too much. But maybe I’m wrong.
I noticed I also have 100 attack less than your build but still….

That damage in the screen was with 25 stacks of might on you and 25 of vulnerability on your foe right?

Because without them I can barely reach 3,5k of crit with bombs…
EDIT: even with the boons and conditions said above I can’t surpass 5,5k scit, I had food too… that quite strange.

And how are you going to prove they used TS?

+1000

That’s really annoying.

The second point. Seriously, It’s really a big problem, there are a lot of those kid.
I don’t even get why they do this, there’s really no reason?

I agree, I keep getting guys who don’t move, they just wait the end of the match, they even write -.-

You haven’t played againsta a team of 5 minion necros. I did. That was horrific.

There is a really annoying bug in the Queen’s Gauntlet arena that is really kitten ing me off. I’ve already lost at least 20 tickets because I keep finding the previous boss inside with my boss.

For example, I have to fight Liadri with a lot of Oozes of the previous player because they don’t dissapear.
This is really annoying and in most cases means you’ll lose.

Really, fix it.

EDIT: And also it often stole my ticket, it say “It’s your turn to fight” but I can’t enter the arena and people that come after me can enter in my place.

Well, that’s probably nothing new in this forum, but I really want to underline this aspect more. PvP, in my opinion, has a great, huge potential behind it: his mechanics, builds can really build up one of the best PvP system around the web.

But what it lacks right now is variety. We have only one type of PvP, which is the point conquest. This is not enough. People want different type of challanges, the proof are the newly born “1vs1” rooms, where player rotate themselves to play one against the other. We did this only with our fantasy, because the game lacks a 1vs1 match system.

I want to suggest to Arenanet a lot of things that can be done to improve the PvP. I want to repeat that the mechanics of this game can really create a fantastic PvP system, why waste this great potential?
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1. 1vs1 match
   This is already happening, we only need a modality pre-set by Arenanet.
   A good idea could be make sure we can put rules: with the already added custom arenas this shouldn’t be that difficult.
   For example, we can ban some skills (like elite) or some particular build (this is going to be a little hard to implement, so let’s pass).
2. Deathmatch
   When I play PvP in random rooms, I often see people that just want to zerg around, without caring about the points. So why don’t add a mode for them? Deathmatch is the most famous PvP mode in the world.
3. GvG rooms
   Well that’s quite clear. Only team with members of the same guild are allowed. This could be a deathmatch, a point capture, wathever.
4. Captain mode
   One player is set as Captain and the other team need to kill him while his team need to protect and cure him.

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Those are just some ideas, there are plenty of others around, they just need to be developed.
What do you guys think about it? Leave your feedback here

lol fail with the title of the discussion

here’s mine, I think I’ll change the gloves color to red, though

Does character level affect the equipment level you get?
I mean, if I play with a level 40 character I can’t get a good exotic / precursor or it’s the same as a level 80 char?

From last patch I can’t buy items and if I put something in the shop, it simply disappear…