Originally posted by Godliest

 

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Originally posted by Par-Salian
What's the problem with spirits?

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I'm quite sure Izzy (skill balancer) have stated that spirits are a pain in the ass for them as balancers. Spirits was when first released quite overpowered due to their party-wide protection, this was countered by adding long recharges and making them kill in negative one second (sarcasm, but I play ritualist). In their current form the protective spirits aren't worthwhile to bring along due to them dieing before they even serve a purpose, but as I understood it from Izzy they can't change much without making them overpowered.

Spirits in PvP are also quite uncommon due them being stationary thus forcing them to either be left behind when everyone else move along, or force everyone to clump around them. Spirits are for ANet, and Izzy, a problem that's hard to solve without making the spirits overpowered.

I have a Ritualist that I really like and I've never seen a big problem with them, personally.  Granted, I don't PvP much...I primarily stick to PvE.

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Originally posted by Par-Salian
I have a Ritualist that I really like and I've never seen a big problem with them, personally. Granted, I don't PvP much...I primarily stick to PvE.

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So you consider Shelter to be fine? It got 45 seconds recharge, 5 seconds casting time and costs 25 energy to cast and it dies in around 3 seconds... Or Displacement which only manages to block around 4 attacks before dieing, with a 45 seconds downtime? But Rejuvanation must surely be good; especially since it dies in around 3-4 seconds in a 8-man group, and it got 30 seconds downtime. And what about Agony, which manages to cause a - massive - damage of around 12 and then dies! Hopefully you see my point.

Originally posted by Godliest

 

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Originally posted by Par-Salian
I have a Ritualist that I really like and I've never seen a big problem with them, personally. Granted, I don't PvP much...I primarily stick to PvE.

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So you consider Shelter to be fine? It got 45 seconds recharge, 5 seconds casting time and costs 25 energy to cast and it dies in around 3 seconds... Or Displacement which only manages to block around 4 attacks before dieing, with a 45 seconds downtime? But Rejuvanation must surely be good; especially since it dies in around 3-4 seconds in a 8-man group, and it got 30 seconds downtime. And what about Agony, which manages to cause a - massive - damage of around 12 and then dies! Hopefully you see my point.

Well if you are a spirit spammer then you need to be putting points into spawning power for ritual lord or even soul twisting could be used.

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Originally posted by SaintViktor
Well if you are a spirit spammer then you need to be putting points into spawning power for ritual lord or even soul twisting could be used.

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This is going very much off-topic. But you still suffer from the fact that the spirits manages to do just about nothing except commit suicide in a few seconds and then leave you standing around. With Ritual Lord the recharge of the spirits compared to the support they add is pathetic. The best I've managed to make out spirit spamming was this build and even that isn't as good as it should be.

without a monthly fee i do not see why not buy it. besides it sounds alot like warcraft and since it has no monthly fee i think it would be a pretty successful. everyone loves warcraft why not play it without paying monthly?

Originally posted by swainiac

The only thing I hated about the original was the lack of freedom. Instanced everything - no jumping - linear areas. GW2 looks to fix all that - whats not to like? I'm in.

It is still the best looking MMO on the market imho as well.

I'm pretty glad GW2 will be more like the regular MMORPGs like WoW. But if GW2 wants to keep it's current community it should keep the game free2play and they should also put the ingame's focus on PvP, what is one of the best feature of GW1. But I'm pretty sure NC studios will make a great game oif the there new GW episode !

I PvP with my Rit. Thanks to Ritual Lord I can literally summon spirits as fast as they are kille. The key is to spread them out. While people are trying to kill the spirits, the rest of my team can kill them, as we aren't taking any damage.

I stick with offensive spirits and count on item spells to protect me.  I agree that using spirits for defense is a waste of time.

Either I will try before I buy or wait for the reviews. I definitely would not buy a game cold.

Hey, i'll be the guy waiting outside the store two days before it's released.... I heard it would be very similar to the whole ".hack" anime with the headset on (excluding the whole twilight thing >_>). Either way, it has big promises!

What do you mean by the ".hack" thing?

From what I've heard, it sounds fairly similiar to The World and R:2 since there will be multiple races to play as, an (idk if this is true, friend told me this) PvE + PvP area, and the ability to jump, etc... Plus you can buy the headset (if you can afford another $300 ) which would pretty much sum it up to nearly The World. Also, the graphics are similair, the 'wave' signs on necromancers and monks (and probably a variety of other proffessions i haven't explored yet =P)...

What headset are you talking about?

All I know is that it's going to be the same Guild Wars we know, but you will just be allowed to play different races, use the Z-Axis and PvP in The Mists.

It's a seperate headset i saw in a gamers magazine. Alot of people in our school use it to play WoW and GW

    Ya I think ill wait a month or so to see what others think of it. Im sure that it will be a good game since Gw been working on it for good amount of time.   They wont let their success fail in sure to be good sequel.

I probably will buy GW2, but I'd like to see some more info on the game first.

I will be getting it as well, been playing for 36+ months, gonna get it on release

can t wait for it. I love GW1 and GW2 i m sure will be better. That being said i play it along a P2P MMO it s a great second game :) Wife and i have a blast with it.

i'll buy for the sake of playing PvP... i like Gwars because u dont have to grind much to get into the action

ill buy at realese