Unicorn Luna.5204

Hey dude it's a feedback thread of peoples opinionated experiences and feelings when playing the class. It's not helpful for anyone looking through the feedback to have to read through someone questioning everyone's opinions. We're all going to disagree when it comes to opinions. Just sayin', thanks.

Edit: On second thoughts.. As I become more accustomed to playing it (I got inspired again since posting) how it works is becoming more interesting and playable. The concept is fairly simple but the application in a mobility intensive setting is what makes it tricky. Original: The theme for EoD elite specs seems to be using trade offs or new styles of resource management. Bladesword has both. I like this spec (which says a lot, I avoid warrior like the plague) but the energy management and usage feels punishing and the pay off for it doesn't feel valuable enough. Yes I can knock off a quarter of a bosses health - there's not that much content where this is useful and a well built team would melt said boss before I've gotten enough flow and charged dragon trigger. I have to question whether the big one hit yield is worth another specs damage during the ramp up time that bladesworn takes. I suppose with good preparation this can be very useful in particular fights. It also feels restrictive to have weapon swap on cooldown after dragon trigger, I can't understand the design logic on that one. My suggestion would be: Faster flow. faster trigger charge, lower damage potential. Edit: No I think my only problem is with the classes opening damage without having prebuffed, flow feels comfortable once the cycle has begun it's just that in fights with a lot of mobs I don't feel so powerful, maybe I'll figure that out too though. Otherwise it's quite good, I've probably finished with my beta testing with it now. Keen to see what changes are made at launch.

Not just another gift of battle post by a pve player. Soooo I guess this could go in looking for guild too but the game mode is wvw! I only play WvW to do the dailies to progress my gift of battle track. This can take 30minutes or 2hours because a lot of times the dailies require action that is tricky or impossible to do solo. Are there any guilds out there planning to form an alliance just for the purpose of doing the dailies quickly? Is this a possibility we might see? I guess the difficulty would be in the matchups - just because an alliance is formed for dailies and not conquest doesn't mean it'll be matched up with alliances with the same agenda. I'd be very happy to jump into wvw, tag up (which I don't do because I respect I don't understand wvw), hit the dailies with whoever follows at whatever efficiency level and then leave wvw. Perhaps I've just been overthinking it and I can do this anyway. So food for thought and hopefully not a duplicate post (I did briefly search). What do you think WvW (and others drifting in here) peeps?

Hi so I've been winging it for years in pug mode for everything since 2012 but I'd like to be doing fractal CM dailies and raiding. I have found that finding my way into groups to learn this content hasn't been that fun so I'm hoping to find myself in a guild that's able to train me up. I'm not super great with timetables due to my lifestyle but I'm a reasonably solid guardian player (by my own standards) and although I do really enjoy taking newbies through content I find I join guilds and this ends up being most (or all) of what I do with them. So looking for some challenge! And regular melty melty pew pew runs! Chuck me a mail/whisper if you can absorb me into your fold. 😉 PS: I play DH/HFB well enough for t4's and have passed w1 twice. I've got an alacrigade for t4's which I don't play that well yet and then 20 other characters to play around with. Altaholic for sure and there's usually at least one build I have prepared and can play(ish) for most classes. My only evidenced boast is an old solo video of molten boss from the original LS1 launch on youtube pre-hot. Watching it back now I was not a good player then but somehow I made it through. xD

I haven't yet had much time to play Virtuoso but I'd just like to say that it seems unusual to only have one (1handed) weapon producing blades. But mainly so far Virtuoso is hot.

Feedback! I'm primarily a guardian player PvE Open World, Dungeons, Fractals, (Not Raids, though, yet) and it took me years before I warmed to Firebrand whereas Dragonhunter I loved instantly. Willbender is somewhere between the two. I like it but it doesn't cut the mustard in a way that feels right just now. I really want to love it, and I do like it, but it feels lackluster. But perhaps that's to do with being a newbie with it and not yet understanding where the synergy is. Offhand sword is wonderful as a concept and I do enjoy the 5 skill but the overall damage from offhand sword feels low by comparison to focus and it has no utility besides the movement on skill 5. Focus blocks and does decent damage from range by comparison. Shield is much better utility (Heal, aoe aegis, Projectile block, knockback, aoe heal, all within 2 skills) but agreeably much less damage. Logically I'm not sure why I'd take the sword over a focus for dps or a shield for utility. But then I don't tend to use axe on FB or longbow on DH so perhaps it's just following the same suit for my playstyle. But I would love to love dual swords. Currently pleasing to the eye but not in practicality. Heal Skill Reversal of Fortune is interesting but it's a gamble heal. Litany of Wrath is far superior as a heal for a DPS and traits suggest Willbender isn't much of a support class so I don't think I'd be taking this for healing. I do feel I observe the base guardian heal Shelter seems to be more than a second rate citizen at this point by comparison to Reversal of Fortune. Utilities I usually set my third utility as a stunbreaker on any class. In regards to Roiling Light I still will take Stand Your Ground, despite the longer cooldown. I'm not sure a stunbreaker without stability will ever place higher than any other stun breaker unless the cooldowns are much much longer. The extra bit of damage and cc will be useful in some scenarios though. Edit: Although, Virtue trait Indomitable Courage makes F3 Superior to Stand your Ground and well I guess there's things to play with here lol. My second utility will usually be the best DPS utility available to me. In this case it is Whirling Light. No complaints there, I like spin-to-win skills. But I do note that Sword of justice is Superior so technically if I only had room for one DPS skill it'd probably be Sword of Justice rather than a Willbender skill. My first utility slot will be taken up by whatever I need. In previous guardian incarnations I would trust in my F2 for condition clearing but now that virtue only removes movement conditions so my first utility slot will switch between condi clear or DPS (sometimes WoR) or CC. However, considering the general DPS performance of Willbender I'm loathe to put anything but a DPS utility skill here and endeavour to learn to play better to compensate. I had started out with the Flash Combo Willbender skill here but besides the mobility I found Sword of Justice worked better for damage. In short: Unless I really need the CC or mobility the only Willbender utility skill I'd be inclined to use is Whirling Light. Elite Heavens Palm looks cool but 1.5seconds being vulnerable and stationary isn't great. Feel My Wrath takes up my elite slot still. Virtues - I was about to write negative feedback about these but actually I think the Jury's still out and I'm going to go play around with it somemore... I'm keen to see what will happen regards virtue passive traits as non functioning (aspects of) traits seems like unfinished design. I'll come back and add more if I feel to. Otherwise: TL;DR Fun spec to play, love the movement, love the look of offhand sword, intrigued by the virtue changes. Not sure if it's functionally more practical for anything over DH/FB except for mobility. Survivability feels lower, DPS feels lower, Support options feel lower. Bug: The Tooltip for Flowing Resolve (F2) changes when traited with Absolute Resolve (Virtues). The new tooltip replaces Flowing Resolve Buff with the Resolve Buff. Edit: I'm finding the more I tinker with it the more I like it. Causing passive effects to be active by rotating virtues is interesting. I seem to be doing more damage the more I become accustomed to the skills which is expected but I'm not hitting the big shiny numbers, yet.

Hi! So as far as I've ever understood it, the combo field that your finisher will combo with will be the oldest one you use the finisher within. But just now I was running a CM with a thief dropping smokescreen to blast for stealth, on four different occasions I used my engi's Blast gyro, I started it after the smokescreen was down in all four situations. The results where: 1) Area Stealth 2) The Thief's shortbow caused area might instead of area stealth. 3) Area Stealth. 4) Thief's shortbow caused area might. After this fourth time the Thief said that fire fields take priority but I've never known this to be true - except that in DPS situations you want fire fields to be put down first for area might. Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here? Thanks!

Permanent SAB Access item 1bajillion gems. I'll get it.

This sounds like some sort of a connection issue. Certain values not loading suggests that the client is receiving the information correctly for some reason or another. The endless loading screen reinforces that theory - of course to get to the character selection screen at all confirms there is some sort of connection. Client repair will be the thing to do for sure if your connection is solid. https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201863008-Repairing-the-Game-Client

From experience - Lots of crashing may well indicate a file error somewhere in your system. Things you can do: 1) Remove arcdps and any other addons you have and see if you're still crashing when you next load up the game. 2) If still crashing then run the repair, if the repair client appears to "freeze" or says "Not responding" just leave it. If it's been like it for half hour then it might genuinely have frozen but this is unlikely to happen. Instructions are here: https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201863008-Repairing-the-Game-Client 3) If the repair client crashes or this doesn't repair the crashing problem then it's time to do a full re-install. Chances are whatever the problem is that one of these methods will fix it. If not then the problem is more than likely somewhere within your system - check driver updates, close programs running in the background, etc. It's definitely worth posting your crash log in the thread. There's plenty of technically minded people on the forums that might well identify the problem sooner than Anet will get to your ticket in the queue. =) The vast majority of error 42's are going to be the connection from your computer leading to the server but not the server themselves. Usually if the servers are messing up for real there are a lot more people having problems than one person commenting a connection error in a thread about client crashes. ;)

ThanksBody

Thanks. Body

Ok so sounds like these are becoming an account unlock that is handled differently for each character? eg: On my guard I'll have my flameseeker prophecies with berserker stats but on my chronomancer i'll have it but it will be different stats. So does this mean, in theory, any character that hits level 80 will automatically be able to use a personalised version of an unlocked legendary? Because I have 20 toons slots, I'm going to make more, most of my gold gets spent on gearing new characters. If I could dodge that cost by having legendaries that aren't restricted to one character or needing to be banked and taken out to be used on others... I might actually start giving a crap about legendaries. Next up - harvesting tool slots to be account based rather than character based? Then I'll actually get some unbreakable harvesting tools too =D

I have fully downloaded the game over night and it looks like this has been patched.... I will now test. Completed darkrime delves and progressed. issue is fixed! =)

Interesting! The other people who have the disconnect issue at this same point have all got their files downloaded - what we've got is a client freeze/crash. This is good new data! I'll update my ticket with this theory. I'm guessing if we fully download the game we'd begin running into the disconnect issue rather than the freeze/crash. I'll report back if I finish downloading. Thanks Reaper!

Hmm ok well I won't make an effort to slog through finishing the download then. Thanks for responding =)

I don't get a disconnect after the fight with almorra I just get a big old client freeze - it doesn't even crash to desktop I have to force it, have left it for ten mins on one of the attempts. For you others who are d/cing or client freezing after Almorra fight, have you fully downloaded the game yet or are there still files left to install? Just curious if the fixed file is "yet to be downloaded" or something weird...

Tried again but first I removed arcdps and set the game on best performance graphics settings to be sure and also playing in windowed mode. Replayed this instance a 3rd time. Defeated almorra. Client almost immediately froze. Mouse cursor is a spinning blue circle. The client says "Not responding". As per image: https://imgur.com/OxtVPpd The only different result is that because I put it in window mode I can close it without having to sign out of windows or restart my PC. I know other players are past this bit. Why am I getting stuck here? The patch that was meant to fix an issue on this instance, is it possible that it isn't applied because I haven't fully downloaded the entire game yet or something?

Get to the end - defeat Almorra - The game client then freezes and even though I can hit the windows button to bring up the start menu I can't actually switch to any other program (eg task manager to force close gw2) it just flips back to full screen gw2 and just sits there doing nothing. I've done this twice now with the same result. I'm not really excited to try again until this crash is resolved. I have no error report since I had to sign out of my windows account just to get access to my pc again.

Woah thanks so much for that info! SO I've installed this on a D drive that is installed on the computer as the main C drive is only 116GB strong and the D is about 450GB - but I this was ok before i finished downloading the whole game. Perhaps something happened at the latter end of the download process.. I'll run repair in non-comp mode and leave it frozen for the rest of the day to confirm if it's actually freezing or if I'm just impatient. I most certainly am impatient.... but yes. Thank you =) Edit: I checked the log and a few crashes had that error. The repair crashed again with it too. Sooo I guess I gotta reinstall. Oh well, here goes! Update: I've re-installed to "Playable" and have been running just fine for the last hour using the same install directory. Will update again once the whole thing is completed. Update 19th March: Fully downloaded and everything is working just fine. =)

Hi mods please move this to tech support forum so maybe someone who can support me technically will look at this and maybe reply with something... I'm really hoping for a better solution than to spend the next week re-downloading the game :/

Crash log of the -repair client. I'm going to bed. 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Hi all, PS Mods please move to tech support forum - I misclicked and didn't notice till I'd saved. So I just got myself a new PC and I've been playing GW2 without problems for a few days. But today I left the client to finish downloading and when I came back the game will crash. Usually it happens instantly after a map finishes loading, but sometimes it will let me play for a few minutes before it crashes. I have removed the d3d9.dll for arcdps but it's still happening. Doesn't seem to matter if I run it in windowed mode or not. The problem replication as follows with crash log below: 1) Finished downloading files after having played with no problem.2) Loaded up my new weaver, played for about 2 minutes > Crash to desktop.3) Removed arcdps d3d9.dll from bin64 install directory > Login > select Weaver > Crash to desktop when map finished loading.4) Logged in on DH, loaded fine and worked for 2 mins > Crashed to desktop.5) Created Gw2 shortcut with target line -repair and ran the repair6) Repair program "Not responding" so I changed it to compatibility mode for windows 7 > it started fine and didn't freeze.7) Repair got stuck at around 75% so I closed it and open the client > It downloaded around 8000 files.8) Started up client > hit "Play" and then the screen went black except for a message about not being able to play at the current resolution (even though it was playing fine before).9) Changed -repair shortcut to -windowed shortcut > loaded up fine > played for about 2 minutes > Crashed to desktop (Edit: Actually maybe I switched to windowed fullscreen mode before it crashed)10) Tried a few different settings changed on nvidia/geforce control panel but nothing has fixed this11) Uninstalled Geforce experience > No change12) Deleted GW2 cache in appdata > No change on first startup attempt12) 7:53PM (UK time) I appear to be playing okay in windowed mode now. (1 hour after first posting, 5 hours since problem began)13) For science and convenience I switched to windowed fullscreen mode and haven't crashed yet... I will update if anything happens or tomorrow if nothing happens.14) 8:20PM Client disappeared while I was roller beetling across Brisban, I did notice some minor textures looking off-colour on the ground before this happened. No crash log, error report, anything. Just gone. Restarting and sticking with Windowed mode.15) 8:35PM Client disappeared again without changing from windowed mode. Will full restart, run repair again and leave it alone even if it gets stuck again...16) I ran repair which crashed at about 50%.17) Deleted local.dat after a few unsuccessful attempts at loading up a character and was able to login for a few minutes before a crash.18) 9:17PM Attempting repair again. --> Error Logs <--Texture '0x03539b' dimensions too smallLoading '0x03539b' texture failedNULL REWARD TRACK: 13A54578-5966-E111-809D-78E7D1936EF0Failed to load texture '0x1c15c3': Unknown image file format.Texture decode failed.Loading '0x1c15c3' texture failedFailed to load texture '0x1c15c5': Unknown image file format.Loading '0x1c15c5' texture failedModel '0x1ad9ab' is not a valid model fileTexture '0x03539b' dimensions too smallLoading '0x03539b' texture failedFailed to load texture '0x1c15cb': Unknown image file format.Loading '0x1c15cb' texture failedTexture missing mip chain: 0x1af5dbModel '0x1ad9b7' is not a valid model fileCrashed at 18:41:25Z --> DirectX Device Info <--VendorId = 0x10deDeviceId = 0x1380Version = 26.21.0014.4250Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 TiCompat = 0x00100800VidMem = 2048 MB

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PWBBk6x3lVwyYfMMGJW8PupMA-zxIY1onfMqXBRSBNryWB-e Maybe something to play around with. Core guardian build with some decent support and potentially not terrible damage. It's got a hell of a lot of condi removal for the party and should have just under 100% crit chance with retal and fury which it should be able to provide a fair amount of. I used to play something like this before I became a sucker for berserker. I'm not even elitist or anything I just like the challenge of squish and the buzz from stuff melting. I may play around with something like this myself. I thought about using torch instead of focus and I only put sigil of fire there for idk. Maybe scepter would be better than mace I guess I just like the idea of mace being used ever since it's quite a cool weapon even if quite niche functionally. I can't imagine this being particularly great damage wise to be honest but the utility is strong and the condi damage is fairly well used as per virtue of justice and it refreshing on kill. GL with your mission.

Hello fellow lovely Guild Warsers! So I'm going to get a PC specifically so I can play GW2 again. I don't care about best specs in the world or anything. All I am aiming for is to play GW2 with decent graphics settings on and I don't mind that things will get choppy in a zerg - I'm used to that and as I understand it from others, even the best machines struggle there. So I want to ask people opinions on what kind of a machine and parts I can get that would play GW2 well enough that I'll be able to keep 30 FPS most of the time and on decent graphics settings? I'm thinking to get something secondhand with just like 4-8 GB of RAM and maybe a 'not-great' graphics card that I can replace with a 'will do the job' graphics card. Also I was reading that GW2 was designed for single core cpu (or something) and that part of its struggle is because it's using more than one core on modern computers. I didn't really understand what this meant and couldn't find a better explanation. Could someone explain this to me if they know? And are there any settings changes I can make to help with this? Thanks! PS: I am confident with software stuff I'm just fairly clueless about hardware stuff. When it comes to settings and things you don't have to dumb it down for me but you might have to when it comes to machinary things