Guild Wars 2

http://www.dtguilds.com/mobile/forum/viewthread/m/6563292/id/12497757

The word you are looking for is Apophenia

Its nature’s way of making you think you’re clever… When you’re not.

Are you including bear dps with it?

i think the bridge of doom is a pretty cool structure, eh kills random pugs and doesnt afraid of anything

I did a 200k tick on an ambient in wvw.

This is probably a pie in the sky wish, but what the hey! This is something I’ve wanted ever since they introduced tiered rolls.

Fractal Practice Mode

When entering FOTM, the pop up screen would have a second drop down menu – defaults to “reward” mode, but you may click it to select “practice” mode. You can then select the level as normal. Once inside, you can talk to dessa to choose a single fractal – from any tier, including the boss fractals. The mobs in these fractals would not drop loot (I can imagine people farming the molten duo for champ boxes on level one) – this is just for practice.

For speed-running/tournaments, soloing, and tactics development this would be a huge help. Maybe the audience for this change is to small to warrant spending development time on, but if it could be easily done in the next fractal update it’s something i’d love to see.

Who’s Belinda, then? You mean, that plant decoration ?

DonQuack.9025:

DigitalKirin.9714:

People who call their teammates by their profession instead of their names.

“Hey mesmer, can I get a portal?” or “Hey guardian, go pull those mobs.” or whatever.

I hate that. -_-#

Im sorry but profession is easier/faster than typing or trying to type the names unless youre char names are sam or jane.

Respectfully, I disagree, Don. It may be easier, but I think that your “speed gain” is only seen in the short term, and you potentially lose speed in the long run.

As mentioned above, you can still shorten people’s names to 3-5 characters – the same amount of characters to type mes or guard. So typing-wise you don’t save time. The only time lost would be in the process of memorizing people’s names, which can vary from person to person. At worst, you might have to mouseover a person’s portrait or glance down at your chat tab.

My thought is this:

When you call a person by their class instead of their name, you are objectifying them. You don’t generate respect from a person you objectify. It being a pet peeve of others here as well, if they’re like me, they’re probably less prone to helping a person if they’ve been objectified by them.

The subtle acts that you use to weave a team together become the grease that helps it work smoothly. Being sociable, calling people by their names – even if it’s shortened – dropping smilies in chat at the right spots/times, thanking people, all encourage people to help each other out. Does it work every time? Certainly not, but instances of people being more willing to help you out will increase.

The benefits are longterm. If someone respects you, they’re more likely to go out of their way to work with you and help you out. If you ask something reasonable of them, they’ll probably agree. “Hey Don, do you have EA set up on your war? would you be able to use it? Thanks”

Also consider that if you get in a spot of trouble, people who respect you are more willing to help out you. If they don’t respect you, they’re more likely to watch you suffer instead. If someone you don’t respect gets downed at mossman, do you think to yourself, “I’d better help him rally,” or do you think, “Well maybe he’ll do something smart and attack a wolf to rally. Hope he doesn’t expect me to walk over there and actually res him.”

The time I think you save is in generating a team that works together to make the run better, rather than 5 individuals who are just hoping to “get through” the dungeon. It’s just touching on human psychology. That’s where I think you gain in the long term.

There are currently solo dungeons. Just 5 people usually do them together.

Is the current naming convention on transmuted items intended functionality or a bug? It just doesn’t seem to make sense to me the way it is now, post patch.

So I bought a Sclerite GS skin and applied it to a Berserker’s Pearl Broadsword, though I never used a Pearl broadsword because it’s ugly, I likely just brought the cheapest GS with the stats I wanted. It looks like a Sclerite GS, feels like a Sclerite GS, and I certainly payed enough for it, should the name not be something like “Berserker’s Sclerite Broadsword of Bloodlust” rather than “Berserker’s Pearl Broadsword of Bloodlust”? The “pearl” has nothing to do with the sword anymore since it’s only a skin itself.

Likewise, I have a transmuted staff that should be “Emberspire”, not “Knight’s Pearl Quaterstaff of Torment”. Again, “pearl” is only the original skin.

All my other transmuted items also suffer the same issue, armor name shows as draconic rather than primeval, Severed Dagger now shows as “Carrion Tribal Dagger of Malice”.

These names have nothing to do with the current items. “Pearl”, “Draconic”, “Tribal”, etc, these are just skin names and make no sense.

I’ll quote myself from another thread that I literally just posted on.

Purple Miku.7032:

He’ll always reset to full HP if he steps past one of the gates. I believe the reason this is the case is probably just a fail-safe just in case somebody tries some obscure exploit like luring him out of the arena to safespot him. This is just my own speculation.

If he’s on the wall with you but off to the side, do not try to move in his red circle until during an attack. Lupicus, along with all other mobs in this game, will only attempt to correct their target being out of their line of sight in between attacks. The reason that a person is capable of preventing his necrid trap (bubble) attack and the rapid fire one at all is because when he’s against the wall, he isn’t able to travel in the direction that he attempts to, due to the wall blocking his movement. These two skills of his require a target to be a certain distance from him in order to use, similarly to how for example you won’t be able to place a banner as far away from you as you would be able to shoot something with a longbow (poor example I know).

In other words, it’s flawed AI. What would ideally be the case is that when unable to move in any other direction anymore, attempt to move in another direction instead.

This is why it’s ambiguous whether or not pushing him against the wall is considered an exploit/cheating, as it’s not using unintended mechanics (like leaping onto terrain/safespotting) to succeed in the fight but more or less just knowing the limitations of mob AI in the game and taking advantage of/abusing it. No different than LOSing/stacking tbh.

Long answer, but hopefully you’ll better understand it now.

A few other reasons…

Take note of the warrior arms 20 trait X – Forceful greatsword: gain might on critical hit

This trait in conjunction with whirlwind AND rush (GS #3 and #5 for warr) significantly boost damage altogether from short-lived might stacks along with enabling all hits of whirlwind to hit him. He’s a larger target so if you whirlwind through him out in the open you’ll hit him more than once still, but generally speaking this is a reliable tactic to hit a LOT of damage even on small targets provided you whirlwind directly into a wall/object.

It’s even more significant for eles using FGS #4, to make sure all ticks of damage will hit.

Another benefit is that sometimes during phase 1, swarms can potentially spawn behind the wall, where they won’t be able to attack you.

One consequence that I can immediately think of is that it makes it tougher for people still learning to time their evasions for his kicks on phase 1, because the tell isn’t as visible due to Lupi’s character model rendering partially out of your field of view during the animation.

(This idea is different than other Vanquishing threads, I promise!)

Ever wish you could just enjoy team combat in Dungeons? Tired of all the linear, SCRIPTED events inside Explorable dungeons and Fractals? I present to you: Vanquishing!

No locked doors, no gimmicks, no cutscenes, no stupid NPCs, no pre-determined, linear pathway, and NO SCRIPTED EVENTS! Just sweet, sweet combat and exploration.

Imagine you are thrown right inside the middle of Arah. EVERYTHING is opened up to you, your team can explore wherever they wish, and your only objective is to clear all the foes.

Just like in GW1, Vanquishing maps were wide and open. Teams could Vanquish wherever they want, and in any order they want.

Imagine guilds competing for the fastest times, as what would norally be a team of 5 spread to clear different areas of the map, with a team of 2 clearing one side, and a team of 3 clearing another.

Furthermore, imagine there were penalties for wiping. Imagine that if you were to wipe and fail a lot, you would be booted? Imagine if because of the risk, the rewards were worth the effort?

I think GW2 should borrow from Vanquishing in GW1, and adapt them into dungeon maps. Such a thing could only mean good for the end game.

Mechanics:
- After clearing Story Mode, an option opens to create “Vanquishing Mode”.
- Rather than the normal entrance, you and your team are warped into the center of the dungeon map. There are no doors or scripted events to block your progress.

Objectives:
- Clear all foes.

Waypointing:
- There are no waypoints. The only way to respawn is for your team to wipe.
- Reconnecting while others are in combat will spawn you dead.
- A player can wipe themselves by typing up /resign. However, doing so will accumulate death penalty.

Death Penalty and Motivational Boost:
- Each time your team wipes, you accumulate 2% death penalty, reducing all your stats by the percentage of death penalty. If your team exceeds 10% death penalty, you are kicked out.
- Killing foes reduces death penalty.
- Defeating a champion grants you 2% motivational boost, which buffs all stats by the percentage.
- In addition, killing a champion always reduces death penalty 2%.

Endboss:
- At the end of a Vanquish, an end boss appears. Defeat him, and earn your chest!

Rewards:
- 3 to 10 gold (depending on dungeon)
- Chance at exclusive weapon skins (Bone Dragon Staff, Silverwing Flatbow, Voltiac Spear, Eternal Blade, Obsidian Edge, etc…)
- Chance at Precursors (depending dungeon)
- Obsidian Shards
- Karma
- Black Lion Keys
- Ascended Weapons
- Ascended Armoor
- Dungeon Tokens

Vanquisher Title:
- Complete all Vanquisher dungeons to obtain Legendary Vanquisher of Dungeons title.

I’ve uploaded a small GW1-inspired infographic what Arah vanquishing could look like on the minimap.

1) green
2) bue
3) red

It’s for lore reasons. The game’s human population is largely Krytan (who are usually tan-skinned) with a sizable number of Ascalonians (typically white skinned) and a very small number of Canthans (Asiatic) and Elonians (African) mixed in. Contact with Cantha and Elona has been cut off for many years because of an elder dragon, meaning that the limited racial diversity in Kryta is ancestral – and even that much has probably been watered down through intermarriage.

The idea behind a Legendary weapon is that it is supposed to be somewhat completionist. With the introduction of achievement chests, 500 badges of honor is easy to get without getting into WvW, and WvW is a big part of the game.

It’s supposed to be a ‘show-off’ that you’ve played most of the core content, and played long enough to be ‘worthy’ of a Legendary.

Good, this game hands out too many free achievements. We need more titles/achievements that require difficult feats, with reward points to match.

This is a well designed achievement. It encourages you to actually try to do well at the event, in stead of chasing some meta gizmo that can actively hurt it. (I’m looking at you tequatl chest/failure achievements)

I like the fact that they are blue mists, it does make it easier.

What I don’t like is:

1. The scoring system – it’s absolutely pointless other than to brag to others that you’ve beaten it so and so times. First place doesn’t even get a reward, and it just makes it take longer to get to the puzzle. Why was this even added?

2. Unable to play with friends now. This is an issue with all activities, but I remember having a blast racing my friend to the top, and now we can’t join the same server anymore. Why is it like this? Why can’t I play with my friends?

3. Only 5 people. One of the most fun things was the social interaction from last year – the blue mists got rid of the issue regarding Norns and Charr, so why in the world did they reduce the amount of people jumping through the puzzle? It’s not as fun with so few people.

With that being said, I love the challenge of the puzzle, but it’s just annoying that most of the changes based around it kind of suck.

I would love to be able to use the humpback whales just because they are so massive

KyreneZA.8617:

The better question is: are there any good Ranger pets?

Wolf, hyena, drakehound, fern hound, black bear, red moa, jungle spider, shark, armorfish, jellyfish, carrion devourer, lashtail devourer, jungle stalker, lunx, jaguar, eagle, hawk, raven, snow owl, snow hound, siamoth, pig, warthog, river drake, marsh drake

Are all pets that should be used consistently in wvw and pve/dungeon. It depends on the situation.

Facing Old Tom in a pick up group? Use a devourer, take the fan or a battery, and stand behind the devourer with shortbow. Devourer eats damage since you stand behind it. Easy as pie—if you know your pets. Because most of you might not have known how useful a devourer can be to kite around.

Need fury? Red moa.

Want real CC potential? Dogs. They’re great roaming in wvw and actually good versus some enemies in pve. Say you’re in TA original path struggling with hound knockdowns. Use your own dogs to knock them down. This applies in COE too versus the ice hound elementals.

What about a good charged knockdown? Porcine believe it or not. Their charge used to be 600 units so it almost never landed. It was recently shortened and it works much better now. Plus, the environmental drops are actually pretty good.

Black bear for the aoe weakness which negates a ton of damage potentially. Also, it’s another dynamic invuln. with the shout.

I think there’s a lot of good pets honestly.

Title pretty much says it all , we want a token system for these new weapons and the new Tequatl weapons. I don’t care if it’s a ridiculous amount , i want to work towards something not sit there and hope for luck that is never coming.

Maybe this will get noticed if enough people support. Post if you support of course, thanks

You are hereby invited to Queen Jenna’s Aluminum Decennial!

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No, it doesn’t have the same ring to it.