Jasmine.8195

Thinking ahead here, wont this topic become irrelevant with the Alliance changes to WvW?

Unless you choose to be part of an Alliance that doesnt support the gameplay (ppt vs actual fights) you enjoy most in WvW, at which point its really back on you to join an alliance that does.

> @"Lordblacknail.3652" said:

> I would love to see much simpler outfits, such as Gwen's Attire. Not everybody wants to look like Elton John.

It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind..

Ah hah, so it is RNG... was following the Dulfy guide and it doesn't mention the Artificial Diamond being RNG so I thought I was doing something wrong after 2 pre meta storm runs and nada.... bleh.

Click bait> @"Milkshake.4719" said:

> I think it's great when scourge players think they are the bomb for spamming massive aoe fields kitten must take some serious skill

Actually, it's exactly where it should be. It does need a dash for Firebrand though, but funny and accurate otherwise.... haha.

I love both for different reasons. I think of the hot maps, especially td, as this crazy jungle adventure that is a bear to navigate and actually quite fun to do hp and meta trains on. PoF is also very pretty, but much easier to solo roam though I don't go back for guild or map bounty trains.

While I hate solo navigating hot, I kind of find it to have the most replayabilty... especially if youre looking for something to do and havent unlocked your masteries yet (my playtime in hot is easily 3x that of pof).

As my grandmother always used to say, the key is to take all things in moderation.

> @"Menadena.7482" said:

> Not me unfortunately. Not all the skins look usable beyond the holidays and the griffon one is pointless without that mount. I am holding out for the ability to purchase individual skins at a reasonable price (like we had with gliders).

Speaking as someone that has frequented the cash shop for others items recently, THIS.

Its just one of those things where we hope enough of us dont give them money and they adjust how these items are sold. If enough agree with the OP then they make their gross sales for the quarter, the game stays healthy, we get more new content, and then we all move on... no biggie.

> @"Laila Lightness.8742" said:

> First people says content is too hard then now its too easy cant people just decide

No, because people have opinions and are not a unified borg collective. For me the content is perfect with just the right amount of hard when I ask for it via challenge modes, group metas, fractals, and certain jump puzzles.

Let's put it another way... I found becoming a GOD killer quite a bit easier than killing a genius child's toy robot. What?

Have to agree with the OP on this one. To the people stating they like the challenge, isnt that where challenge mode could come in to give you those extra thrills?

I can think of at least a dozen challenge mode challenges that were easier than this story mode fight... thats an issue to me (and Im speaking as someone who does both).

> @Zedek.8932 said:

> Excelsior.

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> The question is, however, why are you being disconnected? I have a regular consumer connection via Cable and I don't disconnect "randomly", no matter to what server.

The more interesting question is why are we only disconnected during story instances, most often at the very end when a cutscene or reward is about to be given? Happens to me quite a bit, but only for stories. I agree with the OP, please SAVE progress and give us a short period of time to reconnect and resume the instance.

Being asura? Golem.

> @AliamRationem.5172 said:

> I actually tried illusions first. The burst is stronger, but I found chaos produced better sustained damage and survivability. However, keep in mind that this build was designed prior to the patch and the axe ambush nerf. Things may have changed

DPS testing I do have to say that I tried variations of the chaos build and then swapped Illusion out for Chaos and was able to consistently kill the golem a solid 20-30 seconds faster over anything I tried in chaos. It's a loss in healing/boons/protection without chaos, but rolling faster shatters gives me more blinds and vigor - plus slightly more frequent torch 4 if I need to use it defensively between heal CDs so I'll take it for the dps boost... for now :)

Going back through my story to work on the mastery achievements and the Axe just destroys stuff that I would have me struggling with on GS. I love the build so much I went all in on Axe by investing in Frostfang + Rodgort last night. :)

>! Was I really in that desert that long or is Taimi's sudden growth spurt during the Amnoon scene a bug? In the very last scene of PoF she's now taller than my asura.

I'm only stating the above as a possible spoiler for those who may not want to know who is still alive vs. who died by the time you get to this point in the story.

> @AliamRationem.5172 said:

> This is what I use in open world:

> http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAnfWnELDNohFMDWoBMMjlZjyf+7//3MEWhWqMAqtcD-jxxHQBAZ/hBq8beq/MO9BZUJIAOFA06JAQIgFrBA-e

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Ok, so noob question this build - have you ever considered Illusion over Chaos? There's seems to be some really nice grabs in Illusion that would go with this build - reduced CD on Torch, faster shatters (which means more blinds to go with the dueling picks), more conditions, confusion duration (though at the cost of overall condition duration), and then possibly swap to scepter instead of staff to take malicious sorcery (or take Master of Fragmentation if you want to keep the staff)....

The trade off is you lose the combo fields/buffs from chaos storm healing, as well as stability + buffs from shatters... hmmm.

Ty for this thread... finally took the plunge and am trying the mirage build linked above though with cheaper condi options since I can't afford viper.

I'm really having fun playing it, it's nice to actually stand in melee for a change. Very diff from playing a GS power build where I was constantly trying to kite and avoid melee... lol

Shame on the guy who suggested killing a child... and Taimi. Sorry, thats my bad Braham joke for the day.

Actually, Id love to KILL Braham... with a spoon, so its slow and painful.

How can you be a proud asura and not suggest the obvious mount for our race... golems :]

They can and should still change these skins to be sell-able on the trading post. This way those who want to gamble can continue to do so and then drop the ones they don't like on the TP for big gold while keeping the ones they do (or selling them for even more gold if they're highly desired).

Thank you for the video on this, I've seen this on many occasions as well (PvE and WvW)

So I've been at this for no less than 12 hours across the last 4 days and I'm really at a loss here. I'm pretty sure I've tried almost every outfit and light armor piece on that's available and yet they all CLIP with the GS:

* Read Reddit posts

* Watched Youtube videos

* Read old forums posts (which apparently aren't available now - get a page not found when you click on them)

* Been to the cultural armor vendors

* The dungeon weapon/armor vendors

* Previewed all of the GS weapon skins on the trading post

* Previewed the regular GS weapons and armor on the traiding post

* Previewed ALL of the outfits in the outfits tab.

...EVERYTHING clips with the Great Sword. Even if I found a set of armor that didn't clip the fact the 90% of the great swords clip into the ground when sheathed, including my beloved legendary, is just not something that I can cover up.

My request on this one is really simple - PLEASE give an option in settings to hide weapons while they're sheathed. This would make at last 80% of the armor and outfits out there immediately clipping free. All the "flash" from my legendary comes from when it's wielded, so I'm more than happy to not see it while sheathed if it'll get rid of all of this clipping!

Agreed. I don't spend a dime on Black LOL Box keys nor will I spend a dime on RNG Mount Skins. Just put them up and let us buy them - hey, you'll even get better metrics out of it this way .. "oh, 300% more people buying electric raptors - get the designers on more lightning skins!"

I've tried all the tricks posted in the dozens of other threads - repair the client, append the client port to the short cut as a parameter, port forwarding for the three ports in FAQ to my now static ip.

The only thing that has given me a somewhat stable experience so far is I switch from high appearance to high performance when entering every story instance. I have a pretty high end PC that has no problems running this game on high appearance, but for whatever reason letting it run on high performance seems to let the instance stories play out without disconnecting me .... at least for the last 10 or so stories I've gone through so far.

Why does this seem to happen 2-4 times with every story instance yet never happens while not in an instance? If this is the user experience (there's apparently dozens of threads on this exact issue when you google this error) I might need to contact my CC and tell them to reverse the charge since you've sold me a broken game.

"the game client lost its connection to the server please wait a few minutes before restarting the client and trying again. code=7:11:3:191:101"