Guild Wars 2

Here are my two cents about the classes I played the most during the weekend:

Deadeye:

- Rifle with a mark feels way too strong. You are basically a killshot warrior without cd and with stealth.
- I could easily win 1onX scenarios without having real trouble unless the opponent was a thief.
- spammable backwards shadow step made it very easy to gain distance but was a little bit buggy when you had a wall behind you
- kneeling should be easier to disable. Maybe a Dodge roll or through movement. In that case maybe remove the charges so you always can go into kneel mode.
- cantrips felt fine and tuned very good while fitting the sniper scenario
- shadow meld could possible break wvw and PvP balance. Way to strong of an elite for such a low cooldown. Never had any trouble to access stealth whenever I want, even without a perma stealth build.
- the mark was very easy to apply so I can not understand the concern here.

Holosmith:

- damage in photon forge mode is too high but has little to low synergy with condi and felt very melee focused much like the scrapper. This makes the two specs feel very similar.
- heat mechanic only effects sword as a weapon and other weapons should benefit from heat too. Otherwise you feel forced to use sword.
- sword two is very weak and does not fulfill any greater purpose. Should be reworked. Maybe a aoe blind skill would fit into the theme.
- exceed skill were mostly okay but felt a little bit weak.
- overheat does too much self damage and is too risky
- overall holosmith feels VERY squishy and should have more defensive traits. Always to rely on alchemy is quite boring…

Weaver:
- the weaving idea is fun but the dual skills feel very boring. Most of the time it is just plain damage and very little utility.
- low cooldown is fine but should not be on all elements. It makes the use of the weaver very clunky.
- sword seemed fun and should fit into the existing weapons just fine

Again I tested the revenant again the weekend. Not as much as in the first bwe but still enough for a little bit of feedback. I mostly tested in WvW with Berserker/Valkyrie mix. This time I concentrated on Glint.

Energy managment

Problem: Still too much energy consumption through weapons which renders utility skills useless. You can still see this is a system made for one weapon slot.
Possible Solution: Remove or reduce energy from weapons.

Hammer

Problem: Skill 2 does too much damage and is way to spamable. Skill 5 is still to slow for such a obious animation.
Possible Solution: Reduce the Damage on Skill 2 especially the last step damage. Make Skill 5 a little bit faster to make it more reliable.

Facets general

Problem: To powerful out of combat. You can start a fight with 50% Boon duration, perma swiftness and 10 stacks of might. Ofc with 50 energy.
Possible Solution: Make it possible to have only one facet permanent active ooc. Leave the energy drain while in combat.

Gaze of Darkness

Problem: The tooltip states it works in the area “around you”. But this is not the case. Most of the time this skill does not hit. It seems to have an arc or something in this way.
Possible Solution: Make it more clear where it applies the revealed debuff or change the tooltip.

Unrelenting Assault

Problem: Not completly avoidable thus rendering it a bit too strong.
Possible Solution: Increase the speed of the skill to make it dodgable with two dodges or remove the last hit.

This is it for now. I will edit my post if I remember more issues.

First thanks for this awesome class Roy and everybody behind it! I had a blast playing it. Since I mostly played pvp with the class, this would be what I am talking about. Here is a list I would like to see improved on.

Energy Managment

Problem: Too high energy costs, especially noticable after adding weapon swap to the class. Sometimes you are in the middle of fight and only have auto attack available. Then the only option you have to swap legends which forces you to adapt a different play style which you possible dont need at this moment.
Possible Solution: Remove energy costs from weapon skills since they already have cooldown as “punishment”. Or reduce overall energy costs. Also reduce the legend swap cooldown to 5 sec or less.

Minor Problem: Upkeep skills are to unrewarding.
Possible Solution: Reduce the energy drain.

Missing OOC Mobilty

Problem: Except legend swapping with Shiro and spamming super speed (which I belive was unintentional), the revenant felt really slow and I had a hard time to catch up, since there are no kind of teleport and almost no swiftness.
Possible Solution: Keep the superspeed legend swapping and add swiftness to weapons.

Weak heals and few boons

Problem: Shiro heal is almost useless and ventari is not practicable in and out of combat (see ventari section). Other than that the revenant has only few option in regards of boons but tons of resistance (maybe a bit too much).
Possible Solution: Make heals stronger add more boons to utilities.

Ventari legend unusable in pvp

Problem: Ventari legend needs to much micromanagment and offers to few reward.
Possible Solution: Personaly I would prefer a complete rework of this legend. Maybe make the Tablet stick around the revenant and make it possible to attach it to players. If a rework is not feasable then remove the energy cost and cooldown of moving the tablet. Otherwise I wont see a reason to use this legend since gw2 is so focused on mobilty in combat.

Unrelenting assault

Problem: The camera panes at the very last attack to the player. This is especially confusing if the enemy teleports away out of the screens focus. You often find yourself in a bad position and you have to orientate yourself again. Also it should be an evade skills because this skills makes it unusable in aoe fights.
Possible Solution: Add Evade and let the camera follow the player after each teleport.

Necessity for some legends

Problem: Since some legends fullfil some roles, you feel the need to always equip legends like shiro. Without shiro you lose almost all of your ooc and in combat mobility, which makes some fights impossible as a melee centered character.
Possible Solution: Preferably add more utility skills to each legend (too much development time but would be awesome ). Another way would be to add more boons, see above.

Staff 2 skill to weak

Problem: Staff 2 feels to weak and unrewarding.
Solution: Add chill or cripple instead of weakness.

Banish Enchantment

Problem: This could be a problem of the user instead of the system. But I always felt this skill did not connect and had the feeling that I missed with it since I saw no confusion.
Possible Solution: Reduce the casttime.

Inspiring Reinforcement

Problem: Cool skill and cool animation but way too slow.
Possible Solution: Make the skill activation quicker.

No viable options for disengaging

Problem: If you need to disengage a fight you have nearly no tools to do so. Again missing of Swiftness and Teleport/Leap skills make it hard to disengage a fight. The only option is to use superspeed but that alone is not viable enough to disengage a fight.
Possible Solution: Add more leap/teleport skill. Make “Phase Traversal” work without a target.

Legends missing they general purpose

Problem: If you switch your legend you dont immediatly feel that you have become the legend. No legend specific events trigger.
Possible Solution: Add legend specific passiv effects. E.g. make Shiro give you 25% increased run speed or Jalis give you 10% less physical damage (remove 10% from the elite in this case) and so on. This would give the player a immediate feedback that they switched to this legend.

For now this is all I can remember. But I will update this post if I have more issues.

Thanks for reading all of this

My Account got hacked on 2.6. I had a very long ticket until I spoke with the lead of the support Madi Walker.
He just ignores my tickets now and nothing gets done. Is this how the lead of the suppport should handle a ticket?

I am really disappointed and cant play the game at all because my account doesnt get restored.

I like those crazy Ideas I will discuss those with my guild and see what we do next. Please keep them coming I like how all you are thinking

Ranger Pets and traits that do damage are not affected by the restrictions
But using the pets ability or switching pets was not allowed either

haha pretty cool idea. I like that very much phadde

A little description: A while ago I saw a Matt Visual video in which he repeated things mmo players say about Guild Wars 2. One of those was: “I heard the game was so casual, you get beat the dungeon with one button.”
So we tried that out

It was more like a fun challenge to us and we wanted to see if it is possible. I hope you all this little video and enjoy it. We sure did.

A question to all of you: Do you think we should try to do another dungeon with only one skill? Or do you have another crazy challenge we could do a video about?
We are very exitited for all of your ideas

this is ridiculous. Only 10 achievements to choose from each day? I dont want to do PvE every day when I just want to do some sPvP. But you are forcing me to do it.
And the same goes for the opposite. I dont want to be forced into doing the 5 daily PvE achievements you force me to do. Since when was having a choice a bad idea?
Give us choices and let the player decide what they want to do.

You are especially anger the casual gamer which have a hard time doing any pvp.

An official answer would be nice. So I would know if I should farm them before the patch.

With the new wardrobe system, new transmutation charges will be integrated in the game. Now I ask myself: will transmutation stones still drop?
And will they drop through all available channels like map completion, daily ect.?

I think is a very important question and I hope we can get an official answer about that.

Wanze.8410:

zanzoken.7698:

I think we need a statement from ArenaNet about this quickly. Yesterday I made a thread about those massive buy orders and it got deleted because it discusses exploits.

Does this mean this is an exploit? Please Anet give a statement so people would stop doing this.

Dont just ignore everything and then ban everybody because you did not want to comment.

Your topic got deleted because you called it an exploit, not neccessarily because Anet thinks it is one as well.

If you think it is an exploit and breaks the EULA in any way, report it as such and dont post about it on the forums.

I never used the word Exploit in my thread. Because I did not see it a such but wanted an opinion from anet which they refuse to state.

I think we need a statement from ArenaNet about this quickly. Yesterday I made a thread about those massive buy orders and it got deleted because it discusses exploits.

Does this mean this is an exploit? Please Anet give a statement so people would stop doing this.

Dont just ignore everything and then ban everybody because you did not want to comment.

Hey everyone,

I am currently looking for a good high level (48+) build for FotM. I would like to be heavy on the support side but if DPS is the way to go, that would be fine as well.

I thought a defensive bunker would be nice but all guides I find are about zerker guardians

Thanks in advance

Hello

I´ve made a little video for everyone who has a diffcult time with the sanctum sprint.
I hope it helps someone

Notice: This is not about the fastest way I just wanted to give some advice for a more successful run.

I have this problem several months now and it is really annoying.
When I first login I cant whisper anyone at all. The game doesnt change the chat box to the whisper function. And it doesnt matter if I do it with right-click or /w .
Than after around 10 min all whisper contacts I tried to choose earlier pop up after another. Which is another annoyance….. Because everytime it activates the Chat window so I cant play….

I hope this can get fixed

Please it is really simple. Just seperate the selection and so on from the camera movement.

Just use the right-click for the camera ONLY. Every other game does this.

I do not even know why I should need to target (OR EVEN AUTO ATTACK) with my camera button? The players are not stupid, they actually can use the right and left mouse button at the same time.

Please do not use any fancy algortihms, just seperate the camera from anything else. Thank you.

P.S.: Plesase do not tell me it is too time consuming to do it. Just remove the kitten bindings….

Daendur.2357:

kill shot in the crowd can be quite unnoticed and usually eles using churning earth teleport on the target to be sure to hit him.

If you get hit by a churning earth with teleport you are just a bad player like the one you described before.

Now for every thief who doesnt know how to defend against churning earth! Watch the cast animation and in the last second DOGDE! Easy as that you say? Yes I do!

This dungeon is amazing! Thank you very much arenanet! It is so much fun and thank you for your hard work!

Sry but does anyone know the exact recipe of eidolon (guardian shield)?
I cant seem to find it