Smiter's Boon EditionGW1 just received it's first major balance patch in nearly 13 years, the original balance dev returned after having left anet years ago solely to nerf smiter's boon again to sate his unquenchable hatred of smite monks. Based. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260205We have a /vm/ guild that has been running near weekly events for over 3 years now with over 60+ logins in the last week in our alliance for anyone interested in doing endgame content, new players are always welcome and no prior experience is needed.>>2209898 Previous ThreadCanthan new year finally concluded today, our sponsored district was a great success with more than 20+ alliance members and at least 5-10 thread lurkers showing up. Overall great success and fantastic turnout, we'll definitely have to do this again next year. The ass prog continues every sunday at 2 PM EST. We might potentially try to flip an outpost on feb sat 21st if borders look good, otherwise we'll do a HM DoA or regular HM deep run that day.If you want to join guild, post your IGN.Useful linkshttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://www.gw-memorial.net/https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/PvX_wikihttps://wiki.fbgmguild.com/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://party.gwtoolbox.com/https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/https://ascalon.gwtoolbox.com/https://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome>New player and not sure what profession to run?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQQe_3P1P0>Returning player from 2005-2007 era? You might have unobtainable valuables.https://guildwarslegacy.com/forum/thread/11457-greens/>GW Reforged Announcement Posthttps://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-reforged/
Cynn's thong
>>2230012be careful, her braps would sear your eyebrows.
>>2230027God I hope so
>>2230030oh so that's what happened to your hair, Mhenlo.
>>2230005
>>2230012>canthan whores could be here she thought to herself
so what will the other god badges be?Balthazzar probably for being undefeated in PVP after having won like 10 arena matches in a row, less matches in a row for GvG or alliance battles, have it gain numbered ranks for however many matches in a row you've done since the last time you died in PVP.
>>2230086lyssa will be an enemy randomizerplains of jarin filled with abbadons
reposting in new thread>>2228378Make soul bind work on more than just direct healing nerf its damage if you need to. Reduce cast time for orders, soul leech, vampiric spirit, mark of subversion, barbs, soul barbs, wither, ect. Buff lingering curse anti heal to 33%.
>>2230086PvP badge would be interesting
I think balthazar should be related to fow and grenth uw respectively. like for example cheap tactics like blinding enemies dont work on the aatxes and like maybe the smite crawlers have a permanent spell breaker, with the idea of, actually making UW and FoW challenging again instead of a mindless place to grind ectos or obsidian, and most importantly only player characters can join it, like it used to be before heroes were implemented.might even open up the game in a way to promote people to actually make groups for content again.
>>2230127???
>>2230034Kek
has anyone tried the new controller support? I somehow doubt that you can make it work in high level areas, where you need to micro your heroes.
>>2230086nah, wouldn't make sense for PvP desu, I think balthazar badge would be PvE players are now affected by the monthly PvP flux. That could create some cool implications for builds.Perhaps if the entire party is balthazar badge players, the zone is instance is under PvP balance.
Will 8 rit teams be a thing in pve now? Are rit sisters free of the false sos/st dichotomy?
izzy heard the scratching noises coming from gw's coffin and opened it up to pinch off a loaf inside before bolting it shut
Why are people complaining about the balance update?They're buffing rarely-used skills, this is what I hoped for when they announced reforged
>>2230281Some of the buffs are super broken, like Consume Soul.
>>22302328 man rit PvP teams are now a thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=104ccDXixTU>>2230281A lot of the changes are good, or at very least interesting, most of the complaining comes from the PvP crowd. Specifically the pious restraint change. Pious restraint was already a super meta pick for dervs used primarily by GvG crowd because it was a ranged cripple skill you couldn't dodge. The counter play was to run a cripple shield, or a condi removal and get out of range of the derv, but with the current change a derv can now cripple spam you faster than you can cleanse it.There was a lot of PvP changes to derv especially that were already semi meta picks that saw frequent use in PvP (not PvE) that now make dervs even more annoying to deal with when they were already a staple of any PvP team.
>>2230294>8 man rit PvP teams are now a thingI know. I mean pve.
>>2230295Unlikely desu, consume soul armor ignoring damage is single target and only a buff of about 10~ damage. The reason it's meta in PvP now because 80 extra damage is enough to 3-2-1 instant kill spike <600 HP players. 1000 HP PvE enemies laugh at this. DwG is still the better elite for 8 man rit team (if you wanted to try one for PvE).
>>2230294this kind of shit is why i don't even try to play or give 2 shits about pvp, bunch of sweaty tryhard basement dwellers running the same skill and just spamming it cause it's broken now.
>>2230354>that's why I play PvE with 4 esurge mesmers running the exact same broken buildsJokes aside, this is always the case with every PvP game in existence, always has been even as far back as 2005 (IWAY).The fun part of GW1 is there are so many skills and the game is pretty well balanced that you can have natural strategies arise that hard counter this. It's easy to take one look at this video and assume it's unbeatable when in reality this team had so much stacked up for it.The map they picked specifically benefits anyone who can win the 8v8 fight in the center, fall back gives them the movement to easily collapse any split attempts. On a map like frozen isle, this team likely falls apart because it can't do split strats at all.What's more, once people become aware of this strategy it's pretty easy to make preparations to counter it, simply running a high HP set is probably enough to stop the spike from working entirely. The newly buffed fertile season (raises max HP of everyone) also probably fucks this strategy up. Alternatively using the growing popular spiritgay set up Union is a HARD counter especially with Shelter. Hell all you need to do is get a lucky Diversion off and the entire comp falls apart.But when you're not expecting this it's easy to be taken by surprise by a strat you've never seen before. Nobody expects 8 ritualist dive bombing their team at max speed.
how's everyones melandru run going?i'm still really poor
>>2230294lmfao what a faceroll
>>2229820Warrior is the worst presearing class. It should be obvious when you realize the first two skills they start off with are "receive more damage" and "signet of receive more damage".
>>2230518sounds high T and chad to me
>>2230113Necro has a lot of really long cast times on skills that really aren't all that good to begin with.
>accidentally ctrl+alt+click gold item>deletes it with no confirmationok what setting i never turned on is this? how do i turn it off?
>cheatbox user getting fucked by their own cheatsLMA
>>2230591if this is a gwtoolbox thing i think it has to take the cake for one of the dumbest default settings i've ever seen in my life.
>>2230591i love how its not in ""hotkeys" or "inventory settings" i've spent 10 minutes trying to find the checkbox for this and its nowhere it would make sense to be.i love software designed by retarded autists.
so i just got a 14^e-1 weapon from a chest.i'm failry sure those only dropped up until 2005-2006 or so, but apparently they've always been a thing. in my 3.5k+ hours since 2007 i've never, ever seen someone get one before.
>>2230643think I got one relatively recently.no one wants them, they're merch food
>>2230643I don't think I've ever seen a weapon like this.
>>2230645they must've upped the droprate then secretly. i'm totally certain that in the past these just never really dropped since around the factions release or so. maybe this is some kind of mandela effect/timeline shift lol
>>2230702I got a dual vamp plague hammer like 8-10 months ago.
>>2230447I haven't left Istan yet, I got distracted by boardwalk and balance update. I had just finished Assault on Beknur Harbor the last time I played.
>>2230590>>accidentally ctrl+alt+clickPost your hand, I need to check something
>>2230447just got Esurge and Soul Twist so things are looking up
With all the hype I would like to start modding the game. I never really like Toolbox. I believe that you can make many more useful and cool things with the game. Does anyone here know how to grab the client’s live API? Has any of you ever tried to mod anything in the game?
>>2230767Make a pet xp bar for me please thanks
I wonder if they will make Obsidian Flesh more usable in a future balance update. It always felt really unfair that Shadow Form could stay as a useful farming elite skill while OS got the smiter's boon treatment essentially
>>2230788I don’t even have the regular xp bar enabled
Dehjeh waitwait dehjahholy fcuk slow down
>VQ Morostov Trail today, and turn in rep for double Kurzick>Turn in zquest for the vanquish tomorrow when Vanquish week startsI got a lot of fuckin vq to do today
Rhodesia in this motherfucker
>>2230954nice
based
>>2230973hey, I have no field niggers. as you can see they are all dressed as house niggers
PROG TIME ASSASSINS ASSEMBLE
>major vigor drops>i slap it on my boots as usual>hour later>sup vigor dropsi gave it to my hero, i dont want to lose a major vigor oneMelandru is really making me think about these things
>>2231470majo vigor is liek 1.2k
>>2231476>he doesn't know the struggle of melandru
>>22314763.6k last I looked. Minor is 1.2k
I put 600k in sup vigs and that shit tanked to 17k I'm quitting come to Quarrel Falls China 2 I'm giving 9 sup vigs, 40a and 720e away
>>2231498There is no one here you lied.
>>2231522giving away DEEZ NUTZ!
>>2231522gave it away you missed it buddy
Lying is wrong and ultimately you only hurt yourself.
>>2231476i cant use the rune trader
>>2231470game's been giving me a lot of sup vigors ever since they dropped to 20k...
>>2231561why
>>2231586Melandru badge
>>2231587what's that is it a new reddit fad?
>>2231595https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Game_updates
>>2231595I'm NTA, but the original anon said he was doing the Melandru badge which means you can't trade with other players, use traders, use merc heroes, use skills unlocked on your account unless you unlocked them on that specific character, can't use the bank etc.
>>2231617bruh that shared burden tweak is crazy izzy is straight up retarded God forbid he looks at thr pve skillies>want to bring back unused skills>no iw buffcretin
can anyone explain gemstones to me?an arm costs 60 of them to create and the street value of an arm is 22-24e right now. when i search for wtb/wts gemstone every post except one guy is asking 1e each. why are they so expensive? why would anyone ever buy them?
>>2231637What's wrong with IW?
Prog update:I don't walk to talk about todays prog.We're doing a make up prog session on Saturday at 8:00 PM EST if you need to do arborstone and want to help carry some woman through.
>>2231835>woman lmao even
how do i get good at assassin
>>2231843Give up the dagger dream, embrace the spirits.Spirit chads cant stop winning
>>2231846pls no
>>2231835I lied, we are doing it at 3 PM EST, I just found out half my prog can't do math (in addition to being woman)If people who have assassins could show up even if you don't need the mission so we don't have to deal with assassin hench that would be helpful
Red pill me on todays prog
>>2231865and becoming woman
>successfully preform the dunes of despair cutscene glitch first time even though one of the enchanted bows felt like chasing me half way across the map>proceed to immediately get all my henchmen killed before I can even get to the bonus bossGuess me and the Ghostly Hero are chilling here for 10 minutes.
>>2231865Tahnnakai temple we wiped 4 times on the rit room. We couldn't pull the enemies and our group had no AoE other than double dragon, but it's hard to use double dragon when you eat 5 mind burns and die in a fiery explosion before you can reach melee range. We finally got lucky and managed to get a few pulls and I went Life Barrier to bond slave while managing the NPC's so they didn't run forward.and THEN we got to arborstone happened, the first run we agreed to run down the middle like men, and then we wiped so we agreed we were all woman and would take the northern path instead. Unfortunately the esurge mesmer boss spawned and absolutely fucked us, so half the group walked onto the northern path already at like 30-45% DP.And then we stood too close together and a chandelier fell on our entire group and wiped half the group. And then we kept dying to ceiling falling on us, but there was no ceiling so it must be kormir throwing rocks at us to clean up. A group of 3 oni nearly full wiped us, but we somehow managed to reach the boss room, but we accidently killed boss first, which caused Danika to leroy jenkins into a group of like 15 ele's and necros and we wiped.
>>2231886Why are women like this.
>>2231886This is what happens when you don't appreciate the Double Dragon carry enough.
>>2231886>>2231865Meanwhile in team 2, we easily beat tahnaki and beat arborstone first try with masters, WHILE team 1 was still wiping.
What do you think Xunlai Agent's do all day on their own in these out of the way outposts that nobody ever visits?
>>2231886>the first run we agreed to run down the middle like men
>>2231925i used to watch his youtube channel to fall asleep and developed some kind of sleeping disorder where i suddenly wake up in the middle of the night feeling like i was falling to my death.
>>2231918masturbate
>>2231942you might say, they fill their box with items
>>2230649They drop, but that is a shit version of what others want. What is available is the double vamp. Get the 15 -1 health then add a vamp mod and autistic collects will slob you nob.
>>2231931He nearly wiped our group too
>>2231950>Autistics it's pvp botters
>>2231967>>2231950no it's actually a legit PvP item, botters don't need to spend a billion gold to kill themselves a reg vamp and 4-5 super runes does that just fine.In GvG every 2 minutes on the clock all players are resurrected, so it's a legit strat to wait until the timer passes to kill them after time, so they are stuck out of the game for 2 full minutes as opposed to instant ressing. The only way to prevent this from happening is running a double vamp weapon so you can quickly kill yourself thus allowing you to base res.
>>2231942hot
>>2231470Isn't perfect salvage kit pretty easy to acquire?
>>2231931ive abandoned my build
>>2232147not reallyand even then why waste a inventory slot for itits only 9 health difference, and if i ever get enough vigor runes i can salvage the supreme one with a regular salvage kit, because hero armor can't get destroyed
is it me or does HR make Imbagon a little more braindead than usual since you don't wait to be in combat to use shouts you're using shouts off cooldown in order to keep HR up on the entire group, even there's nothing to fear, you just hit it running between groups just to have it expire to refresh HR sometimes.
>>2232251sounds like boring as shit way too high maintenance gameplay
>>2232260kindayou just mash your aoe shouts to keep HR refreshing and your team just.. does more damage because they're +4 to all attributes at all times, while also taking less damage from everything.I've done multiple vanquishes of Morostov trail today and there's that one cul-de sac that's kinda tight and pretty crowded and gave my other characters some trouble cause of how congested it is and the tight space trying to pull them out, but with my HR Para I just waded in and my team felt invincible and melted everything, 20 domination and illusion with like 16 fast casting mesmers, that have 160 armor and take 35% less damage from everything pretty much sustainable.and I just tab targeted and chucked spears shouting constantly.it also went faster because I never paused to set up shelter ahead of time, I didn't want HR to fall off of anyone (sometimes the rits and bip might have it fall off cause they lag behind to cast spirits)it goes so smooth but it's really brain dead.
>>2232251>>2232270you didnt beat the game
it only counts if you run3 necro heroes4 henchmenno cons
>>2232278Oh no!...anyway...If I'm playing a Para I'm gonna play a build that's effectivenot intentionally gimp myself just for... what?
>>2232251If you wanna braindeadmaxx, use TBs/useskill function on "they're on fire". Won't even need to think about anything after the setup just hold w
>>2232314I wasn't asking to make it even more brain dead but yeah, they're on fire is a skill I could use, just I don't have any sources of burning so I wasn't using it.
>hmm +5 strength scythe would let you use battle rage reasonably well>and /w can run whirlwind attack and save yourselves>i should write that idea down>open pawned>it's already theredone this four or five times now
>>2232316What about Anthem of Flame?
>>2232316Yeah you'd be slotting in a skill purely to make management braindead
>>2232318The best part of Alzheimer's is getting to experience things for the first time again
>>2232319well, that one might actually be a little less brain dead since I have to stop to use it, and I'm the only one who uses attack skills so for the burning itself it's no more helpful than blazing spear (I tend to use spear of redemption to clear blindness, doesn't help with blurred vision though)
I wish paragon was cool to play but it's just kinda not. Untargeted shouts feel uninteractive. Targeted ones aren't that strong. Spear doesn't feel like it does good damage ever. And then you look gay.
>>2232336It's probably the best class to play with a controller though
>>2232336everything about para was nerfed instantly. they let it be powerful in pve at least.
>what if we built a class around uninterruptable and unstrippable aoe support>what's the worst that could happen
>deleted my headpieceok seriously how the fuck do i disable ctrl+alt click deleting items on toolbox?why is this on by default?
>>2232251toolbox useskill with they're on fire and anthem of flame on a hero for when you need to go pull
and whatever nigger asked how you fat finger that its called playing a build where you have to swap head to cast buffs and you're trying to look for loots/chests and nameplates at the same time you do it. why is this a default setting?how do i turn it off?ive looked for an hour.
what the fuck it can delete items in your equipment pack?
>>2232286Thats like saying you play mesmerway because it's fun. It's not fun it's just so op literally everyone plays it to breeze through so they can effectively turn "hard mode" into "easy mode".You aren't gimping anything you can play paragon without HR you choose not to because you arbitrarily think that you have to play it.The same kind of nigger who probably thinks dagger spam TaO ranger is the end all be all of that profession, rather than using, i don't know, a bow.You didn't beat the game, you're a nigger, and probably a turd worlder.
>>2232394>make shit up>decide the shit you made up is not only real, but everyone's doing it>get mad about itsure, whatever passes the time i guess
>>2232406Everyone does use it for hard mode because it trivializes the content. What are you smoking man or is your brain so fried you think you aren't simply copying someone else. Holy copium.
>>2232394I already did all the shit years and years ago, in fact I did it before you were even allowed to use 7 heroes. I don't need it to be "hard" every repeat time I do it.
>>2232412his point is that this game is still decently easy to solo with heroes if you do self imposed challenge: don't use mesmerway and the meta builds. and if you find the buildcrafting part of the game fun it makes the game more fun for you because it effectively creates a new meta to build teams for.and there's nothing stopping you from having mesmerway saved as a team in gwtoolbox for that one or two map you just want to trivialize and you can always swap to the meta build when pugging with other people. nothing stopping you.>>2232416but this is also true.depends if your goal is to enjoy the playthrough or get class x to max as fast and easy as possible.
>>2232425i have to make a mesmer to learn doa on so people will take me on the class i actually play. i have no interest in playing mesmer. i'm going to cheese my way through the game as fast as possible.
You shouldn't be able to cast spells while you're not in line of sight.
swordsmanship should get cool anime teleports on all of its moves
Hello?
>>2232658Sup. Thoughts on optimizing HB for 'of the necro' + playing with heroes w/ guaranteed bip? I think you can do way better than the pvx bar.I think Dwarven Stability and Serpent's Quickness are main bar, hear me out. Necro mod is 1e/second and the energy management spells available to monks are roughly worth 0.4-0.7e/second. I'm also of the belief that monks don't remove conditions unless they have nothing better to do. RoF can easily be substituted for Dismiss for times you think you need it. This frees up 3 slots with minimal cost.Closer-to double monk Healing Seed uptime, double the hex removal speed of a cure hex monk, synergy with RoF, more throughput on HB so the second heal that already wasn't necessary isn't missed. Optional slot = whatever prot's best for the area. Aegis has extra value and Spirit Bond slightly less value because overusage while spamming other spells has to be watched a little more. Tested it out today in EOTN dungeon runs, a vanq and also intentionally overpulling and causing a panic/potential wipe scenario against melee, caster, and mixed packs of difficult mobs w/ standard HB and this build. Feels very good so far. We'll see with harder content. Anyone have a better idea, or see an optimization you could make?
I'm angry about the what class heroes people use when they play by themselves.
>>2232662Before mesmerway I used to judge people for which heroes they picked for each prof.
Big dick niggas don't buy the mercenary pack and use Zhed with Star Burst instead.
>>2232498Best idea somebody has ever posted about this game.
Which plugins are actually worth it with Toolbox?
>>2232659O also if anyone tries this later 8+1 prot and 5 wilderness survival is probably the best attributes. 3 works fine but 5 gives you near perma uptime with 5 seconds of downtime that usually takes place between pulls. Perma SQ is not worth the investment.
>>2232684>One click team loadouts>Access to chest with key bind in outpost>Better fast travel>Better minimap>Better controls for sending items to storage>Mass ID/salvage>One click hero flags>Mass material buy/sell>Hide learned skills at trainers/skill cap>Hide gearset items from vendors>Hide white drops for other players both on field and in chat>Hide annoying automated messages in chat>Armory to test out gear+colors>Automatic pcon (re)use>Psychically deleting that one anons headpiece
>>2232659Idk monk that well but doesn't dismiss still function as a heal if they're enchanted
>>2232708yeah that's why the build basically works the same if you swap RoF for it. you could even put draw conditions there. the first optional on the pvx build is already borderline not needed and a lot of people already use it as a flex slot, with sq you definitely don't need a second heal. rof's still really good because its prot and synergy with SQ. RoF really should be optional: RoF, Dismiss, Draw with RoF being the default choice.keep in mind hero team build, caster player, theres no melee who needs heavy cond removal in this build's use case anyways so other heroes on the team can suffice. i don't like taking it on monk anyways, healing prayers just has nothing better to put on its bar.
>>2232708the way i see it removing conditions is a necro or a rit or someone else's job anyways. having to bar it on the monk is last resort.
Were there ever plans to have Hero Formations? By that I mean having melee characters always run in front of me if I am playing monk, for instance.
>>2232727they should make it a butan that turns your mouse cursor into an aoe indicator with circles that show what positions the heroes will go to and then let you make preset circles with adjustable size and individually place-able positions in a menu while in outposts.probably wouldn't be hard to make it work on a deck either.
>>2232659>monks don't remove conditions unless they have nothing better to doYeah in a team full of casters, unless an area has dazed, you don't really need it. I don't bother to remove conditions other than deep wound, blind, weakness, and cripple, and that's mostly to help melee. If my caster heroes are crippled, good, maybe they'll hold still and soak up aggro while I prot them.Speaking of hex removal, I wonder about going full prot with a bar like this and take the shiny new 5e divert hexes (with 3s CD during SQ), then do team healing with your freed up Remove Hex slot to use divine healing/heaven's delight, which will be 8s cd each. Might be nice for areas that have EotN mandragors, where you can simultaneously cleanse Fevered Dreams + Dazed while hitting 200+ spot heals every 3s for 5e. Or any other place with heavy use of obnoxious hexes.
What secondary I should take on proph warrior that is not ranger?
>>2232749/N for curses so you can use plague touch and/or enfeebling blood can be comfy on martials imo. You are going to get blinded a lot, and EB is only 1 energy for an extremely strong effect. Both work well with low investment into curses.
Never done slavers exile. What's the skinny on it? What do I need to bring to not get raped?
>>2232794Frozen soilthey spam resses like white mantle in WiK, you can just easily get overwhelmed by them constantly ressing.
>Joh the Hostile in Scoundrel's Rise bounty today>Mergoyles>Mergoyle Wavebreakers>Bog Scale BlightersI guess it's time to try that hex eater vortex buff
>>2232794You can do everybody except Duncan in NM, then come back to kill Duncan in HM.Proceed slowly in Duncan's dungeon, there are giant piles of necro popups who spam spiteful spirit and touch skills all over the place.
>>2232816Let me know how it goes. There's a few areas I could imagine running it over one esurge in a mesmerway team would be good
>>2232819well, they'll only use it if you're like in melee range of enemies, cause they'll use it as an attack, not just to cleanse hexes.which can be a pain in the ass when 2 of the main hexes we're talking about in that zone are deep freeze and grasping earth, making getting in melee range of them a bit of a problem, and I have to manually use it to get them to remove it from legionare or ebon vanguard assassin at least that's the way it seems.The damage is good when you're positioned right so they use it though.
Fuck this game and its toxic community
The real problem with Mesmers is that all their hair styles are ugly.
>>2232845fukken OWNED
>>2232845brutal
>>2232849The ringlet one from factions is nice
yeah your heroes won't use hex eater vortex on summoning stones or EVAS party members, not sure about pets.so it's viable if you're a melee, but not so much otherwise.on my Ele I slapped Hex Eater Vortex on 1 of my mesmers it almost never got used
>>2232318a day without +5sr is a day without sunshine
>>2232382is this a meme? how come when i ctrl+alt+click nothing happens
>>2232816I wonder if heroes will use HEV on minions. It would be hilarious in areas with AoE hexes if so.
>>2232867I doubt it cause they won't use it on EVAS or Summoning stones that are in melee, and there's another drawback to hero usage too, if you limp up to being in "in the area" range to 1 enemy while hexed they instantly use it to damage that 1 enemy.Basically great skill for a human mesmer, but heroes don't use it well.
>>2232849>he rolled proph female mes
>>2232314>>2232384That can mess up your echoes like HR because a chant or shout needs to end for them to reapply. If you get morale boost or god forbid running with essence of celery it'll break They're on Fire.Paragon is a hard class.
>>2232880You'd be able to use there's nothing to fear at that point
>>2232871That's a shame. Probably still a strong skill if you're a martial in a hex-heavy area, but maybe not worth taking away hexes that could go to shatter hex unless you really need the AoE/non-targeted enchant removal.
>>2232880You can use Can't Touch This with Essence of Celerity, or any other CD reduction. Shouts with stack effects end when reapplied, and so refresh refrains.
>>2232862I feared the AI behavior wouldn't change when the area increased.
>>2232905They really need to do a pass on the hero ai
Should make flourish not have a cast time.
>>2232872Maybe if factions characters could close their mouths I would have more faction characters.
>>2232911Proph has too many mouthbreather faces too
>>2232911Just go with that one face who looks like she works 12hrs/day in a corporate office job.
>>2232911>>2232914this is how they sell you makeover kitsso that you can mix and match faces and hairs from different campaigns
Parted lips were hot back in the day
Reforged players don't know what it was like before Necro goth girls went extinct in the 2000s.
>>2232918mhmm
>>2232943Hairline almost as bad as mine.
>>2232958bangs instantly fix girls with 5head
>>2232965a giraffe!
>>2232967>woah, hey guys
>>2232941https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ds3ADeXSFI>We can never go back
>>2232845gwcels tried to ragebait ragna to spike his cortisol JBA (just be armbaron) is law confirmed
why ARE GW female necks so long
>>2233065Ascalon men are packing.
>>2233067Yeah, packing to move to Kryta.
>get bow grip of the necromancer>no more manual BiP>however, shoot green lasers everywhereis this actually a hidden bonus or something I'm gonna have to overlook and will be annoying?
>>2233072>is this actually a hidden bonusIt's not hidden, all weapon mods of profession give appropriate laser.
>>2233076I know but it was not one I knew about until I noticed it on my ranger, although my illusion mesmer also has green lasers now that I look and I have had that staff wrapping for over a week.yes.. staff not 40/40 set, I don't use single attribute builds on my own player characters so I like the HSR for inspiration and PVE spells I use.So I go 40/20/5SR, my Ele uses 40/20/20 staves most the time
>>2233069Can't blame them.
sex update
>>2233081Kryta does make a case for delicious brown girls
this game is boring it's just pressing one two three and sometimes eight when your friend dies
>>2233138Dagger spamming will do that to you
>>2233152I play UA
>>2233159Even worse
>>2233152I like to mix it up a little
>>2233161how else do you complete actual difficult content like Nolani Academy, Sanctum Kay or Unwaking Waters in HM? kneel before me and thank me for rezzing your useless ass
>>2233163I'd say based but I hate golden phoenix. Crit strike is genuinely great though. Moebius is fine but I usually like palm strike more. Both let me skip back to the dual, but palm works when changing targets, and I rarely need to hit more than two DBs into a target.
>>2233164>Unwaking Waters in HM?Bro you might be retarded
>>2233171I got 1170 in my SATs lower your voice when you speak to me midwit
>>2233138The game would not be boring if PvP was good, but those days will probably never return.The current player influx is pure speculative Hype. 3 guys in an office will not be able to keep up with the expectation the returning players have. We have had a decade of PvP bots that have completely ruined anyone's will to play the game.
>>2233177My nigga you misspelled Sanctum Cay
>>2232658Is it me you're looking for?
>>2232794Several copies of Panic
ooh they added the other nature spirits to the update. Good to see them handle stuff like this quicklystill think 3 seconds is to much to make them usefull
>>2232817if you play like this you did not finish the game
This is why I love gw. It's basically impossible to finish. There's just that much content
>>2233275GWAMM with Melandru and Dhuum badges on all classes, thats when you finish the game
>>2233261They didn't need Consume Soul ...
Holy shit Thirsty River is aids with henchmen.
>>2233261They didn't nerf Consume Soul...
>>2233326>>2233328>they dont care about dead pvpbased
>>2233327you should take triple Esurge mesmer heroes
>>2233184agree pvp will probably not return but reforged might not be a flash in the pan. osrs started off even slower than this and look where its at today.
>>2233331i dont really want them to get bogged down in wack a mole balance. like who even gives a fuck.
Making Regular skills have different versions in PvP and PvE was the dumbest fucking decision they ever made.
>>2233359I looked at the wiki list of binding rituals the other day. Jesus Christ literally all of them have a pvp version
>>2233360thats cause they have 3 second cast times normally. they're viable in pve cause they just eliminated that entirely. also look at signet of spirits
>>2233359It is actually the best decision they have ever madeOr you want even more skills to become unusable?
>>2233360I would much rather have them just make certain skills be PvE only. But even I'm against that. It's just incredibly retarded that you have the same exact skill do 2 completely different things based on game mode. Remove the absolute fun, learning curve and joy from seeing your PvE build do something in PvP.
>>2233367Not my problem devs could never balance the game. You are just praising a band-aid solution. The game never needed this many skills or professions. Even more so if you consider that we have literal duplicates. Also the power creep to sell the newest campaign was bad for the game. I reckon that like 70% of skills see zero use, so it's the same as they not existing.
>>2233376Certain skills were definitely made to be used solely against players and never by them.
I sometimes wonder if the devs actually knew how to balance skills like TCGs traditionally do. Now that I think of it. There is no reason for skills to only exist in increments of 5 mana.
>>2233379You mean these? What's the problem?
>>2233385Wasn't the dude credited for creating MtG on the original GW credits?
>>2233359>>2233376You are an idiot, please go back GW2 and never subject us to your posts again.
>>2233376>Not my problem devs could never balance the game.if you play the game, it actually is your problem>I reckon that like 70% of skills see zero use, so it's the same as they not existing.maybe in pvp, but i think almost all skills are used in pve
>>2233376it doesnt matter cause in 2 they DID trim down skills and traits and they still cant balance it properly. also major class bloat from new specs in every expansion.
>>22333855 energy is the equivalent of 1 mtg mana. There's just no mana curve because of differences in the mechanics
>maybe in pvp, but i think almost all skills are used in pve
>>2233402aside from pve skills, what skills are not used in pve?
>>2233399I think it's fair to assume that certain skills cannot be accurately balanced at either exactly 5, 10 or 15 mana. They do this with adrenaline. But that's another story.
>>2233393I have been playing the game since launch on my main and there are skills that I have literally and unironically never touched in my life. Not even once. I don't even know what some Beast Master skills do.
>>2233407From what I've read from interviews/posts from Izzy over the years, they had a formula of some sort to balance skills. Lower recharge meant higher energy, higher damage meant higher cost. Different skills had different "power budgets" with elites being higher budget. Mtg does a similar thing afaik
>Do something OP for 15 seconds>45 second rechargeNo wonder so many skills never saw play.
>>2233411>I have been playing the game since launch on my main and there are skills that I have literally and unironically never touched in my life. Not even once.do you know what pve means? its player vs environmentall skills aside from some pve skills are used somewhere in that environment. You might not use the beast master skills, but somewhere you have encountered themnow go back to your gw2 trannylicious rainbow fantasy game
>Moving the goal posts this hardI unironically accept your defeat.
Tell us, anon. Is this Guild Wars 2 in the room with you right now?
>>2233429It's on my PC right now!
>>2233417works for FGJ
>>2233444Fgj might be the longest CD of any commonly used skill.
>>2233385>>2233407The more I think about it, the more apparent it becomes that player skill choice is indirectly proportional to mana cost. With the exception of Elementalist, most professions tolerate 10 mana costs on a couple of skills but if you go to 15 it starts going downhill. If I could guess, I would say that the total mana cost of all skills in the bar is fairly low. I think the game needed more reliable ways to regenerate mana. Especially to non healer professions.
>>2233392>>2233422You sound resentful.
>>2233429gw2 was declared void when reforged was announced
>>2233447>Enchantments, stances, shouts, "skills"Never understood why only Enchantments had hard counters. Or maybe I'm not remembering things correctly.
>>2233450not even the same person
>Imagine using ms paint to show how not resentful you are.lolLMAO even
any spirits worth using now that its slightly easier
>>2233461holy cope
>Doesn't even deny itOh no sissies, someone is mad.
>>2233447Something that bothers me somewhat is how much energy costs are faked by the primary profession mechanic, largely as a way to disincentivize using those nonprimary skills effectively when not on that profession. Elementalist skill costs take the presence of both energy storage and attunements to achieve a relative cost that's similar to a mesmer casting mesmer skills. Using as many 10 and 15 cost ele skills on an off profession would drain you immediately. Bow skills are higher cost than average because they expect to be used with expertise, meaning non rangers get kind of screwed. Dervish has the same thing with flash enchantments and mysticism. Monk has this but with heal strength not energy cost, and Mesmer has it with cast and recharge times. It just limits the cross class build design in a contrived way.
>>2233290Max survivor on pvp char.
>>2233474That's easily achievable on trap runs.
>>2233456"Wild" attacks counter stances and are decently commonShouts have a few hard counters but they're not common at all outside of certain parts of NFUntyped skills have few counters, especially those with no cast time, but they should also be rare. They're quite strong though you're right. Only stuff like diversion, black out, and power block can really fuck with it
>>2233473How would you feel if we had 50% more skill points? Because I always feel fucked with Ranger precisely because of shit like Expertise. I am always cucked by having to go Expertise and Marksmanship but never able to reliably go explore other things like Beast Mastery or Wilderness survival.
>>2233463not reallythey suck regardless, especially when you also have to use a preperation before every battleAlso, they not only affect you but also the enemy, so if you bring favorable winds as a bow ranger but the enemy group has 2 or more rangers, you are boosting your enemy more then you are yourself(unless you run ranger heroes but who does that unironicly?)If both the spirit and the prep go to 1 second i might consider it(maybe have expertise reduce the cast time)
>Wand Wrapping of the Dervish>Wand Wrapping of the MonkI can't even think of a build that'd use these, like ever.I can't think of a "of the Dervish" or "of the Monk" that'd be useful to anyone.You'd need more than 5 divine favor to make a monk heal comparable to a Rit heal for a non monk, and I just can't see the opportunity cost being worth it for of the dervish, only dervishes use multiple dervish enchants.
>>2233450>resentfulYou should look up what that word means because I don't think it means what you think it means.
>>223348013 in expertise, 9 in marksmanship, and the skys the limit
https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally
>going through Nightfall campaign on Melandru badge>have to use Melonni for mission>dont want to spend precious platinum to unlock some skills that would at least make her somewhat useful>do pic related, no money used, just some hero points
>>2233483>Wand Wrapping of the DervishMeditation, eremites zeal, and the newly buffed arcane zeal might work on some kind of orders necro?
>>2233483>DervishEremite's Zeal>MonkHealer's Boob
>>2233530>Healer's BoobI'm listening.
>>2233483of the monk has a use case on n/mo prot and as a weapon swap for e/mo. of the monk would be good if they just made it work on all spells not just monk spells.
>>2233554Monk should give a heal to all spells that affect allies.Dervish should discount all enchantments
>>2233530yeah i swapped one of my healers to hb necro full time. life bond on my bip and maybe myself if i'm playing melee is a huge increase in team survival.
>>2232659I don't really know if I like serpent's quickness when most of your skills are 4,2,10,8 second recharges. Feels like a waste of 2 slots.Running prot skills is a waste if you are running an ST in this comp I would just focus on healing prayers, otherwise you are spreading your stats too thin (needing at least 6 points in wilderness, no less than 7 in protection prayers, and you're missing out on raw divine favor healing while playing Healing Burst which is somewhat reliant on divine favor really feels bad).Ironically I actually like this build better without Of Necro and instead with a 20% enchanting mod cause you could afford to stick on Selfless Spirit + serpents quickness can almost give you 100% uptime on casting discounted spells, I might have to try that later. I would swap Shield of Absorption with Seed of Life (I prefer it over Healing Seed, especially if you're playing Healing Burst and you're expecting to have decent Divine Favor).Another anon mentioned condi's aren't super important in a caster team which I agree with. And I personally like Cure Hex over Remove Hex but I don't know your hero situation. Patient Spirit is an absolute classic as well I would go for that over a weak RoF as a better spot heal.If you're not playing with an ST/Prot though this changes things.
I think the feather botters stopped
>>2233735damn i should've bought a bunch
>>2233839I bought a couple stacks at 100g/10, crazy to see them that low.
>>2233601>I don't really know if I like serpent's quickness when most of your skills are 4,2,10,8 second recharges. Feels like a waste of 2 slots.seed alone is worth it.>Feels like a waste of 2 slots.the build isn't hurting for slots though. two of the optional skill slots on the pvx healing burst bar are next to worthless and i can't think of anything than DS/SQ. if you can pls post it that was why i made the post. >Statsall you do is drop 1 point in protection prayers for 5 in wilderness survival. 5 seconds of downtime is fine. divine favor is the same rank as the standard build. >Ironically I actually like this build better without Of Necro and instead with a 20% enchanting modyou should be using both. 40/20/20 to cast prot spells and 10%hrt/+5 necro 10/10 focus for casting HB, RoF, Remove Hex and to swap to right before mobs die. >Patient Spirit is an absolute classic as well I would go for that over a weak RoF as a better spot heal.RoF is better. >Running prot skills is a waste if you are running an ST in this comphealing bar with heroes is insanely boring. >Seed of Lifethis might be better you're right, gonna test it out. >Cure Hexthis skill is just bad imo. 1.5x the cooldown in exchange for a heal that usually just overheals and does nothing anyways. the way i see it hex removal is why you take a monk over a rit why cuck your hex removal? having strong hex removal like deny hexes or this sq/remove hex combo on the monk can free up space for the mesmers to do even more damage.
its meant to replace the resto rit/necro in mesmerway. yeah ua/hb slots in better than a hybrid but they're just really boring to play. some prot spells are still pretty effective with a st on team, you just have less choices.look at the non zei-ri version of the n/rt on mesmerway. the discussion page says half the skill bar's just filler because there's nothing better to put there. and the caster version of the rit on merc mesmerway has a bunch of damage spells that don't impact the functionality of the team to drop. its not like the prot spells are taking up all that much opportunity cost. just the attribute points.
>>2233876with heroes on a monk why aren't you just jesus beaming?
DROP YOUR SHIELD YOU LITTLE SHITS
>>2233896just to switch it up when smiting gets boring.
Prophecies warrior with melandru's 'tismWhat's the best secondary to play through very early game?Monk>purge conditions>hard resMesmer>ether feast>epidemicNecromancer>plague touch>blood renewalRanger>antidote>troll unguent
>>2233946ranger > wammo was the way to go back in the day but the healer henchman got buffed and i haven't tried the new one out yet. if the new healer's decent then i'd go necro for plague touch personally.
>>2233947just realized antidote signet requires going to kaineng so that's no good for me
Why can't we have these? Thoughts? Of Hexing, 20%Of Stances, 20%Of Sonority, 20%
>>2233981stupid fucking idea never think of anything ever again
i seened this on reddit dot com600 tank bros... our response?
>>2234011Sub optimal, there are a lot of builds that can solo UW without needing to micro a hero/lose half your drops to a hero. Not to mention I don't think you can maintain spellbreaker without cons on your current set up.
>>2232880I added a fixed interval option to /useskill to bypass that issue.
What the fuck is her problem?
>>2234023she's a sheboon, these things are expected.
Been searching for some high quality vizu/nika renders for AI. It was a pain to find them but since I got em I may as well share them here.
>>2234023Varesh looks like THAT???? Sign me to for four more eyes
>>2234031
>>2234034Anet really did have the bets artists in the industry. Even for today's standards, Nika's ingame model is peak.
>>2234015name three that are fun
>>2234061I don't think there are any solo builds that are fun, they're all about autistically managing enchantments to keep from imploding while slowly chipping away at enemy health.SoS being the only one that is not that and is equally boring cause you're just placing spirits and letting them go at it.
>>2234066no cons in that screen>sos as an example of an optimal buildim dead bro
>>2234074it's an example of a build that can solo farm UW, and the only one off the top of my head that isn't managing enchants to be able to tank normally untankable damage.
>>2234031>AISo, gooning then?
Be honest, did we really need all of these?
>>2234142There you go.
>>2234142a few could be merged.Shout and Chant and enchantment spell and flash enchantment spell are the same just one has a cast time and the other does not, that's basically the only difference.like the specific weapon skills need to exist so that you can restrict weapon types for them, enchants and stances need to be separate from other beneficial lasting effects because they can be stripped by different means
>>2234142The fact that most Mesmer shutdown/interrupt skills mess with all of those is unironically insane.
>got Sup Vig on my Melandru character:)
>>2234016how do this?
>>2234198I've gotten like 5 of these the past week, which is about how many I have ever gotten in the preceding two decades, but none of have been on my melandru's, and the trader will only give me 19k for them.
>>2234204I think they changed the rates. They also changed the minimum price for superior runes
I really hate Junundu's and their mechanics
i got a stack of bones on my melandru's charactersell it for 750g? i dont think i need to use them
>>2234153I can't believe Mesmer interrupt skills actually interrupt, I'm going insane save me Isaiah!
>>2234153Most domination interrupts only affect spells and chants, while illusion mostly affects attacks. Stuff like Cry of Frustration or Complicate are the exception.
>>2234277Leech signet will rupt anything but only gives energy on spells
Is there a spellsword/magic warrior class?
>>2234299Make a spellcaster and run melee prof as secondary.
>>2234299Elementalist with double dragon+conjure flame. Or melee skills+star burst
>>2234299Try an Illusionary Weaponry Mesmer build.
>>2234299>>2234309I am right now progressing a E/W based on Ride the Lightning so that when the Anniversary comes back around in April I'll pick up the Engrave axe. I don't even have a melee weapon and it's already a ton of fun.>>2234321Illusionary Weapon + Symbolic Strike + Artificer Signet armor set
>>2234335>Illusionary Weapon + Symbolic StrikeDo we tell him?
>>2234299None of them viable, the game has too many abilities that specifically shut down that type of gameplay.
>>2234351oh, fuck
>>2234299Just play dervish. Every other option has all the downsides and weaknesses of both melee and caster with no upsides
>>2234243There is nothing wrong with interrupts but they shouldn't be so powerful. >>2234277Skills like Diversion should never affect all types of skills. Assassin is non existent in any PvP meta because of retarded shit like that.
>>2234147barrage builds with a wand would be fun
>>2234381Yeah, I agree that Interrupts are too strong by virtue of how many of them are universal and how easily then can just come out of nowhere, what do you think if they ere changed so that unconditional interrupts like Cry of Frustration or Web of Disruption only trigger the interrupt if the target is not Hexed, or otherwise had some kind of conditional dependency on the target being or not being hexed already? That way you have to choose between reactively interrupting vs debuffs via hexes
Interrupts being so strong is the only thing grounding casters. Melee has a billion forms of hate, most can come out of nowhere. Get over yourselves.
>>2234381Empathy should also only affect attack skills, not attacks. Those types of skills were always stupid.
>>2234421People such as yourself has no concept of how strong certain things are because we never had a 1vs1 duel type arena.
>>2234425Games just not balanced around 1v1s though. It's always a been a team game. That's a completely moot form of comparison. Might as well rank skills purely on how they do in the fighting tournament at that point.
>Let's make a super cool skill and slap a 25 mana cost on it to make it unplayable This is simply sad.
>>2234429They did that to effectively ban skills from pvp. They really should have just come up with a way to actually ban skills. Would have prevented the PvE skill nonsense
>>2234381>Assassin is non existent in any PvP metaDoesn't the most dominant GvG team run double sin frontline? At least prior to last week's balance patch.
>>2234438aren't there already skills with different values in PvE and PvP? so that just means they were too lazy to balance it
>>2234429*unzips expertise*
>>2234484>put 12 points into expertise>now this beast mastery IAS stance only costs half my energy bar>penetrating -> sundering>out of energy 2 seconds into fight>did 0 damage because my marksmanship is 9
>>2234484retard
>>2234496That said if you do a melee + pet build using prominence, it could probably work.
Why were the devs so afraid of making skills like this non-elite? Like how is this even an elite in the first place?
>>2234508You could have posted a picture of pretty much any Ranger elite there.
>>2234508>>2234518Barrage should trade some of the damage bonus for not removing preparations, basically make it a Volley that lets you combo.
>>2234081>that isn't managing enchants to be able to tank normally untankable damagethat is the point of farming
>>2234473>so that just means they were too lazy to balance itthere is no way to balance everything as pve and pvp are different, so its only logical they split some skills
This may sound retarded, but how long does it actually take to swap a weapon set?
>>2234588like 0.3s I think? work latency into that too
>>2234591Apparently even going this low seems to do the trick.
20% sale for everything in the store going on now
>>2234607Is this for steamies only? On the anet website store, the game and bonus mission pack are discounted, but everything else is full price.
>>2234607nuh uh. the game yeah but nothing else
if you play with reforged badge and melandru badge, you still get the 500 gold skill cap?kind of cheapens the whole melandru badge thing if so
alright alright get this these stupid fucking devs banned 60/60s cant make them cant keep them UNLESS you paid for a fancy skin then you can keep everything like i did on all my chars :^)
>>2234637[Baww] is too powerful... they're going to nerf this.
>>2234637gonna nbomb you
>>2234649[Baww] fucks Melandru's Stalkers.
>>2234663you just k n o w someone already took you just know
>>2234663>/Rt
Is the bonus mission pack even worth it?
>>2234676i think theres some weapon skins in it
roast my Mo/W build
It's truly over, isn't it bros? I just can't see any scenario where this game makes a comeback with what they announced and the current resources.
>>2234574yes and that's pretty fucking boring cause you end up not doing much damage back and the killing is slow.
>>2234704it's been over for fifteen years and yet it keeps happening
>>2234713
>>2234704Only chance this game makes an actual comeback is if they find a way to monetize it. Otherwise it's kill.
>>2234704What are you talking about?This game hung around for like 20 years getting a tiny anniversary update every 5 years at best, and now it's had like five meaningful updates in the last two months, they're openly soliciting feedback for future updates, early work on new areas has been datamined, and there's apparently a mobile port in the works. To the extent that Steam Charts are any indication, the game is putting up numbers that are literally 10-20x what they've been for the last decade. What is that if not a comeback?
>>2234704PvP is effectively dead. Every mode is, even if there's players doing it. If you login in now you will see bots and the exact same sweaties from 15 years ago. There is just no joy anymore.
>>2234716Unfortunately whether or not they even try probably depends on streamers bringing the audience back like with OSRS and classic WoW.
>>2234744My dude, there are literally no e-celebs that originated from Guild Wars. Not one.
>>2234750my nigga Peter Kadar is going to hit it big any day now
>>2234508midline damage is only meant to "harass" in pvp which is why spear sucks too
>>2234750No one's gotten famous playing it or gw2, but how would you know who played it 20 years ago and just heard about reforged during a content drought? It's only irrelevant until it's not.
This guy here is high on pure copium.
>>2234771I'm manifesting, big difference.
>>2234704>>2234744OSRS's launch was a very slow burn without many players or hype. Streamers didn't really have anything to do with it becoming popular again, they're mostly responsible for the second much more recent wave in popularity the game saw. Fuck FO
>The osrs argument againJesus you people are actually delusional. >>2234771 is right.
>>2234704what do you want? its never gonna be 2007 again
>>2234860you literally just compared the game to OSRS.
>you Who do (You) think I am?
>>2234860People told me the same thing when OSRS came out and they look like fools now. The main thing in the way of GW1 doing the same is monetization.
>>2234869Read the posts I was replying to. I don't care if you're the same anon. me: replies to posts comparing OSRS to GW Reforgedyou: the osrs argument again *rolls eyes*idiot.
You sound resentful.
i resent all you retards for not posting about things i find interesting
>>2234882I am resentful that jagex got passed around like a bitch to private equity firms and OSRS got ran into the ground :(I am resentful that jagex made me gather every single leader figure in the PVP community, who are in 20 year long blood feuds with each other, into a discord to discuss the problems with PVP and come up with a new wildy update then they laid off the Jmod who was communicating with us, ignored our feedback and gave us Bounty Hunter.
Did we get linked in /v/ again or something
>>2234887there was a gw3 thread the other day
>>2234887You're wrong and didn't play OSRS launch. Cope.
>>2234887WoW officially died, which is why I am here now.
>>2234904Same but OSRS and DotA
>>2234897Oh okay that explains it>>2234900Not the osrs nigga, my guy>>2234904Qrd?
& Everquest Emu is ruined too. P99 taken over by troons and something awful goons who make you do a full on background check to raid entry level world boss dragons. Quarm ran by a tranny who pretended they were going homeless to scam money from their community to get testicle removal surgery, while working as a game dev making $230,000 a year.
>>2234904You're about 19 years late
i also resent my wownigger friends for refusing to play guild wars only because it didn't have jumping
>>2234921Flying mounts don't get enough hate. That's the real reason GW1 got axed for GW2. For a period of time having flying mounts was mandatory for MMO's thanks to WoW.
I wish I knew anybody who would try and play MMOs with me.
>>2234925My friends play MMOs but they're all playing crap like Dreadmyst and BDO.
I only played GW instead of WoW because my parents refused to pay a monthly membership. I appreciate them for that. All of the WoW retards ended up being literal losers in life.
>>2234930Jokes on you, I'm a loser in life too
My IRL and scape friends are all long time GW2 fags who quit because they don't like the state of the game but they won't even give GW1 a try. >>2234930mom and dad got me my own phone line and dual isdn then eventually a t1 line man the world was nice before 9/11 and 2008.
>>2234934i briefly had my own phone line in the early 2000s for a short time. i was probably 11 or 12.i talked to my childhood best friend at the time, this kid i played pokemon league with weekly at the books a million, and these two girls i met off neopets.
Guild Wars?
>>2234934GW1 is a considerably different game, where people actually have party roles to play instead of every profession being homogenized into something that can do a little bit of everything.Take this with a grain of salt; I stopped playing GW2 like 6 months after launch.
>>2234947I stopped playing GW2 like 60 minutes after beta.
>>2234940I still talk to some of my eq and scape buddies from the early 2000's thanks to finding them again in game. Only have had 1 person on my old GW1 friends list come online, he never quit and played this whole time minus two tours in Afghanistan. Neither of us really remember each other though.
>>2234947I unironically could not level to Max on GW2.
>>2234948Same. Like many others I was already playing better MMO's and GW1 was my side hoe BECAUSE it isn't a MMO.
>>2234947i completed whatever the storyline was when the game first dropped and never came back unfortunately i never came back to gw1 either because i assumed the whole franchise was near deadnow things are comfy again
>>2234948I maxed out, but I never beat the original campaign because the endgame zones were devoid of players.
>>2234947There are designated roles in endgame dungeons and a little bit of build variety but everyone misses the fully customizable skill bar.I've played a decent amount but what keeps driving me away is how grindy everything is. The entire gameplay loop is focused on grinding resources to dump into crafting lines, which is required for any of the actually fun high level content.
while I could use froggy scepters... I think I'll pass on pugging zb and just do vq's this week for more coins and less stress dealing with pugs
>>2235136we can speedrun frogland any time
>>2235136i just solo the eotn dungeons theyre easy
>>2235149yeah and I have multiple 500 coin vanquishes in zones that give rep I need still so.. I'll do those
>>2235160I generally have less stress doing the same but sometimes I do zb pugs just to pretend like I still will play with people
am i retarded if i use locusts fury so i dont have to press buttons
>Wand wrapping of the assassincan wands even crit?
>VQ Sacnoth Valley that I had in my log from before>400+ enemies down cleaning up the Charr stronghold killing all the bosses for 450 rep a pop>finish>have covered everywhere>Vanquish is still on at like 430 enemies>... the fucking pop up worms near Ragnar's count.
>>2235306if it pops up, it countsif it does not pop up, it does not count
>>2235308yeah was just annoying cause I did check and thought I'd gotten them all but there was 1 I never saw apparently, I got a rampage bonus around that time followed by a time bonus so I didn't stop to check as thuroughly as I could have I guess I rushed for big packs.
idk man ctrl+alt+click just sends my items to storage
got some magmas today. q10 and q13. both str. soon i must return to kamadan to seek pick seller. i hate wild blow so much it's unreal.
I specifically quit GW2 over the downed mechanic.because downed is seen by the devs as just another combat state like stun and they just imagine you always being surrounded by other players to pick you up, they thought it fair to make it so that getting downed in 1 shot in a clusterfuck of particle effects so you couldn't even see telegraphed attacks was normal.Because obviously you just have other players kneel for 2s and pick you back up.But it's simply not funand you'd get downed and the boss would plant an aoe field right on top of you that you couldn't get out of.this also happened in story instances where yeah, most people don't run those in groups, and the NPC's are hit and miss whether they will res you or not. Sometimes you'd get downed because your'e surrounded by ranged characters each 1 of them 1 shots you to downed, (2 shot if you built "tanky", another thing that bothered me, building tanky was never worth it), and if they're all on you, 2 dodges and 30-60s cooldowns are just not enoughSo you get downed, your NPC's are too busy.. doing almost no damage, so you try to bandage, and a ranged mob interrupts it, you get hit not that often to give you hope you'll be able to rally, but the eneies are not close enough to dying to rally off them and your bandage keeps getting interrupted.Sou you're just stuck in this crippled state for a long fucking time slowly dying.Yeah fuck that game.I tried to like it for years, and ultimately it's shit cause of that 1 stupid mechanic they stole from left 4 dead.
>>2235356There's a ton of design in gw2 that feels very 2010-2011 zeitgeist. The downed mechanic, the "decide YOUR story" shit, the zombies and really generic fantasy setting, forcing steampunk into the setting (for some reason making the steppe horde analogs being the race to do so), not-harley quinn tier villain writing.
zeitgeist sure was a documentary
>>2235384see I was fine with a lot of it, the way they rebranded Charr included (I tried to like playing them but the running animation looked terrible on them unless they had swiftness at all times).But downed? I always hated that.the branching story I actually liked to a degree because it gave replay value to not have the same thing across every alt.But then after the initial main story, it was the same thing every alt.SWTOR and TESO kinda tried that too, multiple main stories to keep things interesting and then... well, every expac was 1 linear story for every character all previous choices no longer mattered.
I'm just now hearing that energy degen via maintained enchantments doesn't care about overcast. Meaning it'll first eat the energy that's currently blocked by overcast before you ever go below your exhaustion. However, as soon as you cast something, it'll degen from your current, now that it's below the limit
>>2235356in wvw they will do "no down state weekend" sometimes. it makes blobs even more powerful cause they just vaporize everything and dont have to "secure downs" anymore. they did at least get rid of down state traits cause who the fuck is building around being downed
>>2235396right the problem there is that they designed downed as being a normal expected combat state, that's why they gave it a skill bar, made it easy to recover from, and made traits for it.Devs had a disconnect from their audience, devs expected it to be a normal part of everyday play like any other condition, but players see it as "slow death".But because of this expectation by the devs, that downed is just a normal state you can recover from, everyone is super squishy, very glass cannon, and you had limited ways of dealing with incoming damage.when they remove downed, but the scaling of everything is still so squishy.. it just makes things worse.
ugh.only 2 profession upgrades I got today are 2 wand wrappings of the assassin.pretty pointless
>Historical Gold Pricing: The classic "2k to 5k" (2,000 to 5,000 gold) price point is largely considered obsolete for dedicated runners due to inflation, though it is still sometimes used by newer players or within friendly guilds.Inflation... for drok's run????
>>2235495How do you farm for profession upgrades
>>2235496yeah for dedicated runs like tours it can be pretty expensive. It's basically gold is devalued, a lot of players have it capped and don't want it at all.That said, a lot of runners do some runs for free, particularly Ascalon City to LA, I see that one for free or tips a lot.
>>2235509I'm not quite ready for a run and I haven't paid attention to it since a decade ago. What's the rate for Droks in 2025-2026? Is it still possible to find free ones
>>2235496Well, yeah. The people who run you want money so they can buy stuff, and if all the stuff costs more, they have to charge more to buy the same amount of stuff. On top of that, you used to be able to get full groups for runs, now you're usually running 1 person at a time. Getting 25k for running 5 people to Droks in the past was cool and all, but now that one person has to pay the 25k, inflation adjusted.>>2235511Free runs seem plentiful to me because I'm usually the one giving them out, but 10-20e is pretty typical for LA <-> Ascalon, Sanctum Cay, and Drok's runs if you can't find a free one.>>2235507Do literally anything that drops gold weapons. Vaettirs, raptors, ministerial commendation, chest runs all work decent.
>>2235507open chests in places where there is no possible armor drops, only weapons, I was just doing it while vanquishing but you can target for skins sorta, like some skins only show up in certain regions.
i've been doing bounties/vanqs and random eotn dungeons side by side with my warrior and dervish all week with identical heroes and optional skills on every map... yeah i stand by 7ws scythe > pious renewal. the dervish struggles to keep up on maps without as many mobs and its more dependent on balling every pull while the warrior just does a lot of damage no matter what. they both do more damage than the mesmers but the warrior by a higher margin consistently. the warrior uses a skill almost every auto and the dervish not as much. dervish needs time to ramp up and get adrenaline and the warrior doesn't. etc. derv obviously the better class for everything else it does tho.
>>2234750What are we counting as e-celebs?https://teamliquid.com/news/2020/05/22/communicating-the-gameHead Coach of one of the top esports teams seems pretty e-celeb relevant. GW1 was simply worked on in an era where the term "e celeb" wasn't even a thing yet, even the concept of esports was pretty new back then. Hard to be an e-celeb when our game literally predates youtube's existence, and subsequently got ceased in development within 3 years of it's birth.The only way you ever win back streamers/e celebs would be to push for esports but considering I don't even think any anet dev has played a PvP match in the last decade makes me doubt that'll ever happen. Despite this the GvG scene is actually growing.>>2234947Played GW2 for 7000 hours, the 2 games aren't even in same genre for players. I hated the PvE but the WvW was honestly a lot of fun... until they absolutely ruined it through years of neglect, bad decisions, and pushing broken features live for months at a time making it unplayable. >>2235396Those weekends were always fun because it allowed for retarded strategies to emerge and promoted actual strategic play instead of doom stacking 50 people running all tank gear, AoE spamming 20k healing per second. Frankly it should always be on, sure you're right blobs don't have to confirm downs, but in the same vein you can actually snipe people out of the blob, instead of downing someone and watching as 49 of his allies res him within 0.5 seconds.
>>2235522>open chests in places where there is no possible armor dropsWhere are those?
>>2235561A lot of places. It comes down to the mobs that the chest spawns next to. If those mobs can drop salvageable armor pieces, then the chest can. ICC is the easiest, and because it drops inscribable weapons, it can drop wands with profession mods, which will not drop in Prophecies/Factions.
>>2235572Thanks.
>>2233483Divine Favor should be changed to heal on any target ally spell, not just monk spells.It still wouldn't be a very powerful attribute, but it would at least have some novelty.
>>2234705um no? we must be playing different games then, radfield meta is long gone
I saw some running talk up aboveif there's people interested I can do a Ascalon -> Droks -> LA -> Sanctum -> Desert run for FREE this weekend
Has anyone tried playing with a controller?How playable is it really?
ya'll smoke bud?
Most collector items are really badnever noticed untill i started my Melandru's run
>>2235824Instead of a mod merchant I've always been of the opinion they should revamp collectors to all have weapons with unique combinations of mods. So if you wanted a 20/20 resto wand you just need to farm 5 kappa shells, or if you wanted a furious 15^50 +30 HP sword you just need to farm margonite masks.
>>2235829I want more greens with truly wacky modifiers."Of the [Profession]" shows they can do PvE only mods with unusual parameters, so why not spin up some new zone or dungeon with reused assets and cool boss loot?Give me a sword with +3 fire magic, where the fire magic bonus requires high Strength or something super niche. Weapons that can "break" the game, but only for certain retarded combos.
>>2235847Of the hamstorm
>>2235849fucking exactly, bro
>>2235356Actual literal skill issue.The only reason to ever get downed outside of pvp is if a retard teammate actively kills you with a boss's sticky instant death circle.And it's still a skill issue then because you should expect retards to do that (while also actively dodging your heals).
>>2235270yeahI use wand crits for energy on my Assassin MM.
>>2235356I was playing an engineer (probably would quit much later if I mained literally anything else holy fuck kits were such a retarded mechanic and it felt like poor man version of ele attunements) and used tool belt skill for Elixir R on myself moments before I got downed, it was hilarious
>>2235561Look for any zone without any humanoids, ICC as the other anon said is an easy one, Riven Earth is another, unfortunately Charr homelands all have humanoids, and Heket and Jotun and Centaurs and Tengu count so that leaves Riven Earth and Arbor Bay for Tarnished Coast (though you can target specific areas of other zones that are populated with non humanoid mobs), and for Far Shiverpeaks, well there's ICC, and I think Jaga Moraine
>>2235882yes just dodge the 1 shot that's telegraphed
>>>/vg/gw2g
>>2235941
if I don't want wand wrappings but want to farm for martial weapon and staff upgrades for professions I should probably farm factions zones huh.cause I only really use wand/focus on heroes, as with players I usually would rather have staff for the recharge on other skill line spells. I can't think of a time when I have no PVE only skill spells or no secondary attribute spells.
>>2235865I'm a little iffy on the idea. It's soft pushing certain specific builds by the devs, which is antithetical to the core concept of the game being decide your build. Being greens is definitely the right way to implement it. Mods would pollute the pool with very niche generally unusable shit
>>2235961Afaik, staff vs wand drops aren't really campaign specific. You'd still be getting OS wand drops. And you'd never get any adept/swift staff mods either.
I want some more greens that are truly unique and unreproducable period.
>>2235974true I guess you'd still get wands just not ones with wrappings.
I really should just look for some zones with no possible armor drops from chests from each possible region though. I know you can do Raisu Palace, since shirokin have no armor drops.
>>2235968Fair, and I see the risk of it reducing to "dev mandated bars", but things like the -50hp cesta and prismatic/artificer insignias have been in the game forever. Items that strongly suggest some narrow angle already exist.
Elemental Attunement should do what Master of Magic does (but keep the 50% restore rather than 30%), and Master of Magic should do all non elemental spellcasting attributes (non primary) instead, letting Energy Storage Eles have 12+ domination/illusion/death magic/restoration magic, etc
>>2236031So signet of illusion
>>2236038essentiallythe problem is Elemental Attunement doesn't have much use, as trying to actually invest in multiple elements you come up really short (the best you can do will end up with like everything at 11). and it'd just be better to use master of magic.
>>2236042EA has use as energy management, just take a second, stronger attunement. It's optimal for fire, even. There's a reason it launched without buffing your attributes.
>>2236046seems kind of a waste for single element. For pure Energy management I'd just use Assassin's Promise if I'm not gonna take any elemental damage elites
what is the maximum amount of Signets of Capture you can have?i'd like to save up about 250 of them for my melandru's badge and get the elites together with the survivor title
>>2236073It's genuinely great for fire, idk what to tell you. Dual attune fire is like the second strongest DPS ele build behind invoke air
>>2236089Ele's in that bad of a spot damage wise huh? I'm finding thunderclap to be more useful than Invoke Lightning even though the damage isn't great.
>>2236090Thunderclap is fun, but invoke easily out damages it. Dual attune fire isn't a slouch either, since you're slamming rodgort, liquid flame and incendiary bonds constantly and never running out of energy
>>2236091yes I know Invoke outdamages, but it's still not great damage (I actually wonder if invoke still outdamages echo intensity chain lightning, cause the way chain lightning jumps you really can proc intensity twice on 1 cast, it's some pretty good spike damage, but I still think the utility of thunderclap outweighs it), so I go with the utility of having an interrupt (even if a cast time on it I do manage to get quite a few interrupts with it), weakness on a pile of melees that rush at you, and cracked armor to make your chain lightning do respectable damage.
>>2236095It's really just the interrupt. Invoke+Shell Shock are basically the same, but invoke has a 1s CD vs chain lightning 2s. You lose a lot of damage with that cast time, especially since it's not like air is lacking in having spells to throw. It's a full second of zero damage
>check my hero build page first time in ages>yo add "of the necro" mods to all your niggaslooks like 6 mods
>>2235786i vape it
ive been using earth ele. easily chain knockdowns the AI and they dont run out of it
>>2236113it's bar compression to have weakness and cracked armor on one rather than shell shock and the single target weakness that probably wouldn't even get used.
>>2234023all of her guardians in life were either evil or stupid.
