7:18 pm, August 18, 2014
Hello, all! Im Karl McLain, one of the game designers here at ArenaNet. Im here to tell you about the direction were going with balance changes in the September 2014 Feature Pack.
For a more specifi [..]
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2:16 am, February 24, 2014
What is Damage Downtime?: DDT is the time spent not attacking that is unrelated to an attack's central action window.
What increases DDT?: Dodges, Movement, Knockdowns, Interrupts, Fear, etc.
Why ca [..]
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8:16 pm, January 24, 2014
So, today I was pugging for a CoF P1 run (yes, CoF P1, that's how serious this issue is) and clearly stated in the LFG that the requirements were that the people joining for using a zerker setup and w [..]
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8:16 am, January 12, 2014
Forum: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/professions/balance/PvE-Revising-the-DPS-Meta/first#post3480529
Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1uyt5e/some_steps_will_be_taken [..]
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7:43 pm, October 19, 2013
Should have kept the Holy trinity or if you were going to remove it make a DEEP combat system not some spam fest where it doesn't matter what skills you use in a row and not really any combos to do ma [..]
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3:41 pm, October 12, 2013
This concept somewhat bothers me.
I have done every single dungeon path and fractals (37 and stopped there) in GW2 with PUGs. And I have done them without any difficulty. I generally form my own grou [..]
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4:04 am, October 11, 2013
Since this relates to both PvE and PvP I couldnt really post it twice in those forums so sticking it here. While I love my Warrior and it it my main it feels like this game just fav [..]
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1:38 pm, October 9, 2013
^Title. You can't see the hitbox of your melee weapon unless your a Norn. For all other classes, if you go to the edge of your melee range and swing, you will hit, but it will appear as if you are swi [..]
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3:09 pm, October 8, 2013
How dare I say such a thing. Kinda long rant here.
But really, there are 2 forms of PvP for a non-hardcore player like me: random sPvP and WvW.
Both of them, both of them feel like zergfests. And I' [..]
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1:35 pm, October 7, 2013
So I play a warrior, and with a group of friends, we went to AC explorable mode. Our comp was as follows:
Warrior x2
Guardian
Mesmer
Engineer
We choose the 3rd route and made it to the Extraction pa [..]
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7:37 am, October 5, 2013
You know the kind. Some quest requires you to use a certain gun or enter a golem suit or something, and it gives you a new bar of skills. And it almost always sucks. This is just not good gameplay. I [..]
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2:24 pm, October 4, 2013
* Past few days I've been running a lot of dungeons and in one AC run, one team member asked me why do I use a staff (on my elementalist ofc). I told him with some notes of sarcasm "Yeah, cause u [..]
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2:23 pm, October 4, 2013
To start with, this is not a suggestion thread - hence it is not in the Primordus visions section. It's just meant as a sort of place to share our ideas about the games combat system. I am not conside [..]
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11:19 pm, October 3, 2013
Playing a melee guardian and I was doing AC story and on the some fights I just keep dying because I cannot see anything. All the spell effects make it hard to actually see the bosses swings and the c [..]
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11:35 pm, October 1, 2013
I've been reading the updates since I quit playing several months ago. Almost every one of them consists of increasing or decreasing the effectiveness of one or two skills per profession by such a pal [..]
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11:21 pm, October 1, 2013
Today I wanted to play with a reallife friend that started a few days ago and he needed to do a few dungeons in storymode. As I already have done them I know the tactics to have a pretty solid run wit [..]
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7:23 pm, October 1, 2013
Before I get into this let me say that I'm really enjoying the game so far. I actually came into the game with a very negative experience from the beta, but my opinion changed in on [..]
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4:40 pm, October 1, 2013
So in a couple different threads people have been saying that the classes in GW2 feel very similar to each other
I don't see this personally as I have a 80 engineer and like a lvl 15 guardian and the [..]
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10:30 am, October 1, 2013
A ****** at the Dragon Bash has thrown lions Arch into Chaos! The culprits responsible for the mayhem have holed up in their hideout. Inspector Ellen Kiel spearheaded the investigation into the ****** [..]
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8:01 am, October 1, 2013
If you haven't played a thief before, you might not know what this mechanic is.
"Revealed- You cannot stealth for 2 seconds."
You are afflicted with this condition every time you drop out [..]
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5:47 am, October 1, 2013
1. Movable target health frame. it gets in the way of seeing the whole world
2. A target of target frame -> we need this because its not the easiest thing in the world to know when you are be [..]
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2:57 am, October 1, 2013
I am playing as a warrior and generally I like to use the longbow for my range weapon because of it's aoe abilities and the f1 ability that lets you combo with melee to get a sweet fire shield.
Howev [..]
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2:13 am, October 1, 2013
I know the hitbox is the same size but is it just me or do melee enemies try for your actual model when deciding if they need to move closer before swinging?
I have a Charr Engineer and an Asura Engi [..]
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1:02 am, October 1, 2013
The current optimal group layout only favors teams that stack full berserker armor and faceroll DPS through everything while simply learning what and when to dodge. Most classes are [..]
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10:47 pm, September 30, 2013
Please let me preface this with:
If you are still enjoying GW2 and/or happy with ArenaNet, that's fine and I'm happy for you.
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Some of you may recognize me (mainly for my math posts) if you freq [..]
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6:36 pm, September 30, 2013
Love the game, but as most say, people go to forums only to complain. I have a few MINOR complaints, and thought it wasn't much to complain about, but... then I keep running into t [..]
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4:36 pm, September 30, 2013
So... after redoing Arah story today (doing it with a friend that had not done it yet), I noticed that the Zhaitan fight has been changed a little.
First and foremost, the AoEs that Zhaitan shoots no [..]
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4:00 pm, September 30, 2013
This is not MY guide its The Great Assassins Guide off the GW2 forums i think it will be helpful so i am posting it here
This guide has one purpose: To teach people how to damage a world boss. This is [..]
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3:42 pm, September 30, 2013
Hey all, firstly I'd just like to say I've really enjoyed the game so far, so I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a moan, the PvP and story have been great, but I am curious to see what peo [..]
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3:00 pm, September 30, 2013
Ok, today I gave a second chance to Ascalonian Catacombs, first path.
I get to the part where Hodgins has to do his stuff while the players have to shut down 6 Burrows...allright.
We treid like 50 t [..]
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8:19 am, September 30, 2013
Ok, so I've already posted this on a couple other forums - but I'm so happy with the results I need to let my fellow Kiwis/Aussies/Pacific Rim peeps know what's up.
I was getting a pretty good connec [..]
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7:45 am, September 30, 2013
Hello!
I've been reading posts a lot on guildwars2guru and I decided to seek advice on something that has been a particular problem for me the last few weeks: alts.
My main is a charr shout focused [..]
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7:36 am, September 30, 2013
I accidentally started a bit of a discussion on the AI / mob behavior in GW2 in a Question Thread, so I'll relocate the discussion here for anyone is interested.
So, the question is:
What do you thin [..]
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4:37 am, September 30, 2013
I guess most people have seen it by now, dungeons are either "kite or die", making Warriors go Rifle, Thiefs go Shortbow, etc...
ANet needs to do several things to make dungeons for melee p [..]
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