Liu posted:

Yeah TD has a lot of stupid poo poo in it but it's more than winnable, it's just that gw players are garbage.

Adhesive Gamin posted:

The sand squall is actually a 30 second cooldown, the 10s listing is from when the trait was a stunbreak on using horn abilities, and never got removed.

Kessel posted:

flameseeker has runes flying out the pages and new footsteps

Generic Octopus posted:

So no actual change to the Gerent event, ok anet.


I had to try at it for a week before finally lucking into a map that succeeded. I have since had more fun running around doing random poo poo on a free WoW trial.

Sprite141 posted:

No, now the north lane won't continuously loop after some gate was dropped.

Thumbtacks posted:

drat, they replied to my ticket in about six minutes. I'm so used to Blizzard CS, but I guess Blizzard has a huge player base so it's understandable.

Alright so now I get to figure out what to play. I either go back to my weird flamethrower/grenade Engineer or my Mesmer that I haven't done much with. Or something new.

What's up with the specializations or whatever they're called? Are they BETTER than the base classes, or just different?

Generic Octopus posted:

Did they move Gerent into Dragon Stand?

Magres posted:

There's basically no reason to not take most elite specializations from what I can tell. People have said Daredevil (Thief) and Berserker (Warrior) are both really lackluster, and that the rest are amazing. Tempest (Elementalist) is, in my experience, REALLY good, but people have also said it's one of the strongest elite specs. If you play an Ele, take Tempest. It's bonkers good whether you use the new Warhorn weapon or not (and Warhorn is also amazing)

Agent Kool-Aid posted:

the gerent event is genuinely really badly made and it has nothing to do with the players being poo poo. you can have commanders sitting there and explaining how to do everything for 15 minutes beforehand and it can all go to poo poo because some random rear end in a top hat walks up and tips the imaginary scale that says 'oh poo poo there's x amount of players here, spawn a fuckton of tough enemies that they can't handle'. and then if a single lane fails once in a phase then the entire event is over. there's no room for error in the slightest. that and the fact that breaking the defiance bar on the gerent is actively entirely harmful is goddamn stupid. there'll be people screaming NO CC over and over despite the fact that it's tacked on to pretty much everything and even if you have just 20-odd people hitting it with chill now and then the bar is going to go down pretty fast.

Kessel posted:

The leaker who's gotten everything right so far strikes again with info about the WvW overhaul:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3uznbc/major_wvw_overhaul_colin_j_ft_e/#s

boho posted:

The guild alliance thing wouldn't be that bad as long as "open" WvW was left alone.

For instance:

1.) I'm a level 80 full ascended Tempest in a tryhard WvW guild and get pissed that a level 22 Ranger took "my" slot on the map. I have to sit in a queue while my guild buddies have fun because some unwashed pubbie who's not even 80 got in before I did.

2.) I'm a level 22 Bearbow Ranger who just picked up the game, has no guild, and is trying WvW for the first time. I step into the map and immediately start getting screamed at by a bunch of people in some guild. I manage to join a small group of people that aren't in that dick guild, and we decide to take a camp. Two minutes later, 40+ enemies with the guild tag appear and kill us all in seconds. I never go back into WvW.

So there's a clear need for two different modes: One for the tryhards who always expect there to be a spot for them on any WvW map, and one for the casual pubbies who just play the hand they're dealt. We already have precedent for this dichotomy in sPvP, so it's not like it's a new idea.

Thumbtacks posted:

I think the last time I played I had a lot of fun with Rifle warrior and grenade engineer, although I remember grenades making my fingers hurt.

Thumbtacks posted:

If I don't buy HoT how much am I missing out on before max? I think my engineer's like ~30?

Agent Kool-Aid posted:

if they take out normal wvw to replace it with some half-assed guild thing then i can see a lot of people being unhappy

Thumbtacks posted:

If I don't buy HoT how much am I missing out on before max? I think my engineer's like ~30?

Kessel posted:

fwiw watch this Pro League match in which Caed uses Daredevil to demonstrate a masterclass in "gently caress you" pvp

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/27937802 match begins at around 2:53

anet will probably look at this and think daredevil doesn't need fixing, when in reality maybe two or three players in the world are good enough to pull this poo poo off

Magres posted:

If you want Fulgurite you're better off doing Dragon's Stand because it's actually a map that can be won.

Magres posted:

I will say, Daredevil is a very pretty class to watch, and looks really fun. I like irritating, squirrely playstyles a lot. It seems a lot more 'flip around being an annoying, dodgy jerk' oriented than the stealth stuff I usually expect out of Thief

Roc posted:

Pretty much the entire current wvw population would be unhappy about it

Thumbtacks posted:

are there any necro or mesmer builds that are just power? i don't really like conditions if i can avoid them

I remember REALLY liking sword/pistol mesmer but i feel like it required a way higher level of coordination and attention than warriors did

Kenshin posted:

I run a power-focused Chronomancer with GS/sword+shield and it works very well.

Thumbtacks posted:

Chronomancer?

Kenshin posted:

Mesmer elite spec: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chronomancer

Kessel posted:

new legendary animations

Baron Von Pigeon posted:

God this is like the fifth update to the dreamer's visual effects. Someone at Anet has to be a huge brony or some poo poo.

CLAM DOWN posted:

Someone post the new bookshield animations as I may be abandoning longbow for this

Roc posted: