Inzombiac posted:

Do any of you spec into your elite but not use the elite weapon?

I've done so with Reaper as an experiment and, if Greatsword wasn't so goddamn good, I'd stick with it. Condition/Minion Reaper is a lot of fun.

Lonk posted:

Ok I am kinda digging druid staff now, enough that I even gave my druid a makeover.



I still have no real clue on how to properly use avatar though. I kinda just suddenly remember it's there, hit the button then hit all the other buttons until it runs out.

treizebee posted:

Welcome to the light side!
I like to stay in avatar only very briefly. I'll just do 3-4 then pop out. Very helpful against melee pressure since the daze from 3 will let you get a good chunk of 4 uninterrupted.
It's usually enough heals and you didn't heavily drain it so it will more then likely be available off cooldown.

lucifirius posted:

Oh god. I hope this guy doesn't procreate.

Lonk posted:

Ok I am kinda digging druid staff now, enough that I even gave my druid a makeover.

I still have no real clue on how to properly use avatar though. I kinda just suddenly remember it's there, hit the button then hit all the other buttons until it runs out.

Harrow posted:

How's Power Druid? I 80 boosted a Ranger a bit ago and set him up with Berserker gear, but I know Condi Druid is pretty popular, too.

I should probably play my Ranger a bit more, actually. I really like what I've played so far.

Wuxi posted:

In PvE news, is the Bloodstone Fen experience increase account wide? I'd assume yes, but better safe than sorry. Decided that I need the new pistol legendary in my life and I need like 35 mastery level for that poo poo, including ley-line gliding so I don't kill myself in Bloodstone Fen

Inzombiac posted:

Bloodstone Fen gives a +% to XP to your account or that it's just a good place to do events?

TeaJay posted:

I've been trying out different builds for my ranger and my necro. For the ranger, I took druid and tried the glyph buff power build, and it's been a lot of fun. The glyphs heal allies, remove conditions and apply damage buffs, all this with a low cooldown. And you can pop avatar on for a little while to do the 3-4 combo to heal AND break the defiance bar AND get a damage buff to your allies that way too!

The condition necro, however, makes me want to laugh evilly to how pathetic some of the mobs who previously have given me trouble are, even without viper gear (I'm running a combo between sinister and rampager). I run Curses, Death magic and Reaper, and use Suffer! Rise! and Poison cloud as utilities. Great fun.

Evon Gnashblade posted:

Mini Garm
...
I don’t buy into superstition, but you can tote this little good-luck companion with you wherever you go. Not guaranteed to work in the jungle, obviously.

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[08/23/2016 – August 23 Release Notes

New Activity: Basket Brawl
Citizens of Tyria! The Captain’s Council is happy to announce Tyria’s newest and greatest sport, basket brawl! The council has sponsored a public court for all to use for the next two weeks. Speak to Morris Podaulff, our first appointed commissioner of basket brawl, in the Grand Piazza to try it today!


World Polish

Cursed Shore
Fixed a bug that caused the corrupted statues of the gods to fire at the wrong times and display the wrong effects.

Straits of Devastation
Fixed a bug that caused the content guide to direct players to an unexplored map sector when all map sectors were already explored.
Fixed a bug that caused the corrupted statues of the gods to fire at the wrong times and display the wrong effects.

Tangled Depths
Moved the locations where some chak sappers appear to keep them out of the walls in the chak tunnels.


General

Flame Legion Effigy: Fixed a bug that cause this creature’s portrait to cover its target information.
Dragon’s Stand: Fixed a bug that caused the zone name to be displayed twice on the map.
Fixed a bug that prevented hungry cats from meowing at players.
Tremors are coming from the north.


Raids

Stronghold of the Faithful

Keep Construct
Added a ring effect to the death explosion of projections to help clarify their radii.
Fixate applied by projections now has a longer duration and will resolve itself better to prevent target swapping. Stealth and similar effects, as well as being downed, will continue to remove Fixate.
Fixate applied by projections now lasts 5 minutes, up from 90 seconds.

Xera
Removed erroneous collision on the center tower that caused players to get stuck inside if they missed the ley line.
Players will have their gliders disengaged if they somehow manage to jettison their way into the stratosphere.


Structured Player vs. Player

General
Updated the Wall of Champions.
Updated the Revenge of the Capricorn map layout.
In the red and blue bases, removed the house in the center to increase visibility while in spawn.
In the red and blue bases, adjusted the respawn radius and location to be consistent on both sides.
Added a wall to block visibility in the blue base’s side exit, making it consistent with the red base’s side exit.
On the path from the blue base to the bazaar, removed the beached ship and replaced it with a ramp.
On the path from the red base to center of the map, removed the wall drop-off and replaced it with a ramp.
At the center point, made the jump to get up to the ledge more consistent for both sides.
Players can leave matches during the 15-second team party phase if they do not opt in to joining a party.


World vs. World

General
There are now mixed borderlands!
The red borderlands are now always the Desert borderlands, and the green and blue borderlands are now always the Alpine borderlands.
Added green and orange commander tags.
Fixed a bug in which guild golem blueprints would not refund players the blueprint correctly.
Shortened the leash range on WvW keep lords.

Desert
Added a new hay bale to the southeast side of the Desert borderlands.
The following changes have been made to the Desert borderlands since it was last in the game. These changes have appeared in previous release notes.
Camps: Reduced the number of base guards from 4 to 3.
Camps: Base guards are now a combination of both scouts and guards.
Camps: Guards have been moved inside the capture circle.
Southeast Camp: Fixed a bug in which the guards weren’t sharing hate properly.
North Camp: The capture point’s size has been increased, and it is now rectangular.
Fixed a bug with the teleporter on the dunes above the Fire Keep.
Fixed a bug with automatic blessing at the east Earth Shrine.
Fixed a bug with a jump pad on the north side of the Air Keep.
Fixed a bug with a floating mortar in the Air Keep.
Changed the jump platforms at the Air Keep so that they launch players similarly to how jump mushrooms work in the jungle maps.
Removed some of the jump platforms since the new jump platforms launch players farther.


BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE

New Items and Promotions
For a limited time only, the Peacock Scepter is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 600 gems.
A new Mini Garm is available in the Toys category of the Gem Store for 350 gems.
A new Bloodstone weapon set is available from Black Lion Weapons Specialists for the limited-time price of 1 complete Black Lion Claim Ticket from a Black Lion Chest. Keys are available in the Special category of the Gem Store for 125 gems each.

MacBook Air Gamer posted:

Peacock Scepter

CLAM DOWN posted:

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Roc posted:

SlothBear posted:

Did you think they would be swinging a giant peacock around?

Johnny Joestar posted:

mixed borderlands in wvw is cool and good

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There’s a bug in today’s release that can cause soulbound items in an inventory bag other than your first bag to become soulbound to a different character on your account. We can fix the bug with no damage done, except we can’t straightforwardly fix it if you’ve moved one of those incorrectly soulbound items into bank storage. We’ll have to work on a solution for characters in that state. To prevent additional players from getting into this state, we’re going to shut down the game servers until we can fix this bug. We apologize for this inconvenience.

AnacondaHL posted:

Any pics of the new green and orange commander tags before shutdown?

Illuyankas posted:

Roc posted:

Harrow posted:

I really hate Black Lion Claim Ticket weapon skins.

Like, these Bloodstone ones are definitely thematically appropriate to release right now but, like, we're in the middle of a new zone that's entirely bloodstone themed. It bugs the poo poo out of me that they passed up a great opportunity to add new weapon skins earned through actually playing the game, at a time when a new area would've been a perfect fit for those weapon skins, to add them to the Black Lion weapon pile.

It's an old complaint by now, I know, but it just feels extra obvious this time.

Harrow posted:

I just get annoyed at how much work goes into all these cool weapon skins only for them to be stuck behind the most boring acquisition method ever.

Adhesive Gamin posted:

Earn gold wherever you want and buy the skins off the TP.

This is the compromise we are stuck with because there is an incredibly vocal component of the playerbase that absolutely will not participate in any part of the game that isn't the easiest gold farm (currently AB multimap and silverwastes) or whatever singular game mode they identify by...

Adhesive Gamin posted:

... and complains when something is out of their reach because they're unwilling to extend their arms.

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This is an update to the situation where soulbound items have been incorrectly soulbound to the wrong characters. After further investigation we’ve determined that there is damage to almost all character records that were played this morning, not just to those who transferred soulbound items to or from a bank. To repair the damage, we will have to roll back the state of the game and characters to prior to this morning’s release.
No one wants to lose a play session’s progress. We apologize for this. I’m sure you’ll also have questions about exactly what a rollback means to you. The general answer is that everything about the game state, including things like trading post transactions, will be restored to how it was prior to this morning’s release. The only unusual case will be that if you purchased the game or purchased gems this morning, you’ll still get your purchase.
The process of rolling back and then validating everything to bring the game back up will take hours. We’ll keep you updated. There will be a period of time when these forums will be unavailable, but we’ll post updates through other channels.

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Added a new hay bale to the southeast side of the Desert borderlands.