Guild Wars 2

what he said, you can whisper, you can “group” to use the same chat channel (team chat); but you cannot do dungeons together, you cant do areas together, if you go back to US servers you cant do anything together but just chat

apparently US and EU servers are completely linked off aside from comunication options

silly yes, you are not doing anything wrong, it has always been like this, 10 copper ores plus the required other thingy turn into 5 copper ingots, it ahs always been like this, you can make “batches”, where with two units, you do 20 copper ores to turn into 10 bronze ingots

and do you know htem in real life too? do you know wasnt their intention? sure, that may be wha thtey are doing now, bu it may be the reason they left. im sure you can see there is a different.

but i understand, im preaching to the unreasonable haters crowd, and as such, i wont get anywhere.

the point is, yes they left, and if you digged, you’d find a reason why they left, but as far as they left, they still left in good standings wiht one another, and just because they may or may not had a creative difference, doesnt mean they left with anger or dissappointment with one another.

thing is, we do not know, but one thing is certain, things changes, things always change,

there is a saying or refrain or what its called “you dont bathe twice in the same river”, tihngs are always changing, and what they may had been their philosophy in gw1, it doesnt mean it has to be their philosophy in gw2, if change didnt happen, we’d all still be behaving and thinking like we did when we were kids.

Kichwas.7152:

clay.7849:

@Kia

Do you understand what ANet stood for when they made GW1? It is quite different than what they have become in GW2. So much so that 2 of the three founders an other key developers left the company.

This is why I, and many other GW1 players do not like GW2 and feel lied to.

Man it must suck when people at work get jobs elsewhere. The whole world comes crashing down.

They should be forced to work at the same company for at least 2 decades, because one decade and then leaving is an obvious sign that the company is a bunch of lying scoundrels.

;)

indeed, its not like one of them wanted to make a different game with something they loved and enjoyed like, say, creat a zombie focused game and mechanics

shame on people wanting to do different things, amirite?

money and karma, that are the “quick ways” to get the achievement done, and they of course cost money/currency, i thouhgt the fix would be related to the free drinks you can find “elixir of heroes”, but it was an abused mechanic that they fixed, good fixing.

on the gw1 related note, the drunkard title it was different in the begining, it was more of a grind, becuase to get the drunkard title, it wasnt with points that you acquired it, but rather on time spent with the screen being drunk like, so it wasnt 10,000 points of alcohol, but it was originally 10, 000 minutes of having the drunk screen effect.

then there is not much to say really, get a bff and play together, thats what im doing

while some may be trolling, not all are trolling

what do you want anet to do? you want to merge servers? where they’ve already made a move where they had people from super high populated servers into mid servers, so the people are there, maybe not in your time zone perhaps

so how about then you give us an idea, a proposition of how you’d solve this issue

its not empty, check rata sum, everybody is into the super fun d ungeon, 8 bit themed dungeon.

1.- invite a friend to team
2.- move to same zone/area
3.- have friend designate you as target
4.- press T
5.- ?
6.- profit!

i i think it worked, dont hold me to gun point that it will work, maybe it doesnt, have a friend test it with you and report us back.

and on my experience, when i started salvaging rares and exotics with crude salvage kits, at least in the begining, i got more eectos from them than when i used master salvage kits, i so stopped bothering using them

but this is something i dont think we’ll ever agree on from both sides

maybe because random is random.

Vol.5241:

The chances of someone solo’ing Lupi and then accidently inviting that player is very, very low, so I’m gonna keep on randomly inviting people to my farm runs. If they don’t want in, they can simply decline.

the problem is, if they do decline, they get kicked, so there your logic fails, how about simply whispering them first if they want in or not? may take 5 more seconds than just sending the invite, but its far more polite.

does the kick happen if the inviter cancels the invitation? because past posters have said that the moment its decline by the player who is invited, they get kicked out

or maybe he got kicked because when one gets a party invitation, it “appears in team place”, he turned it down, and then got kicked as it was partially in team.
did you thought in that direction?

or rather ask, OP, did you accept the invitation or did you get kicked in on rejection of the party invite?

because skill points

you need skill points for legendaries and other stuff (i think?)

how about

that they disabled armor previewing because they are working on it and are going to implement soon™ the previewing feature with some hoped/expected wishes (like hopefully previewing stuff in the TP)

until that is finished
happy interweb searching

in all mmos, guardians/templars/paladins have been my staple class, here is no different, guardian is my stapple class, however, the iconic figure for me has always been sword and shield and if there is backup, a greatsword (starting from aion days), but here in GW2, its a bit different, my staple weapons are the greatsword, and back up scepter and shield.

i dont have too much of a problem with the shield skill, the 4th skill is quite handy when used well (i used to use it as a damage dealer), and the 5th is godly when facing ranged attacks or ranged situations (i proudly look at you arah path with the multi shooting lights), its just knowing when to use them
however, i would happily switch the 4th skill for the warriors shield skill where they block all damage for a few seconds…

i do find the sword a bit lacking in the damage variety skills, but thats just me i guess since others find it nice i think

nope, not missing it one bit at all, quite happy here, specially since my have my friend playing with me

Lysico.4906 said:

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There is a market because Anets is broken..

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No gold sellers there because their market works”

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search query in google was “EQ2 gold”, site adresses removed as i dont want to be banned, but where there is a mmo, there are lazy people, where there are lazy people, gold sellers will appear.
(i did not click on the links as im not stupid enough to risk geting keylogged/trojanned)

but there is no such thing as gold seller free mmo

@hawkmoon
your comment would be apropiate if anet didnt give these boxes at all and kept saying “next week”
but so far some people have gotten it already, both those who got dced before the event as well as some who did the event.

so boxes have been delivered, so its not “we cling to hope”, its bad luck for some, and as it was said before, if by tomorrow you dont get your mail, contact support.

they said it would take several hours, so, until more than several hours pass (24h) there is no reason to complain.

keep calm, keep adventuring.

(i havent gotten one, two guildies havent gotten one, but a friend of mine has)

my guild group and i had been doing AC for a while, and we had gotten pretty good at it, then during one of the runs we had a missing fifth, so we took a random pug who was an ele and claimed to be a “healer ele”, who focused only on just…using water ele spells.

that run felt like it was just a 4 man run, me and another guildie kept whispering each other, and we both agreed that we did not felt at all that the “healer ele” contributed much to the team, if at all.

its an anectodal experience and thus your mileage can vary, but thats how i felt having a “healer” in our team, and would rather have a random balanced or different

its not just that hte healings, we have far more damage mitigation than a warrior does, and ours often tend to be more team oriented, yes the war has one skill that makes him block all attacks for like 2-3 seconds, but we have plenty of skills that give us certain edges:

wall of reflection negates most ranged attacks and turns it into damage against mobs (aoes not included) and it also removes conditions when friendly projectiles go through, sanctuary straight out absorbs projectiles, as well as can protect against all but the large foes and foes with a balanced innate attribute.

also our virtues when burned give a party wide bonus that cant be neglected, well maybe justice, but if you spec for just burning it makes it even nicer, but our regen does a nice heal boost in a pinch for group wide as well as it can remove conditions (if traited for it), and a party wide aegis with protection (if traited) which by far makes it far more support friendly than a warrior is.

yes they have more hp and deal more dmg than us, but how many of their skills do also give a small hp healing on use?

so no, i disagree with you Mefistofell

what lordkrall said

i did the event, i was lucky enough to get into the event before it finished, but what i got was NOT worth 15-30g, at most all i got was worth 5g, and the most coming from a lucky drop lvl 78 superior dolyak rune armor.

so yeah, wishful thinking about getting 15-30g

like one poster above said, most likely they’ll give the chest that contains the accesory and the 20slot bag, 2 exos and 2 rares

oh, my bad, thank you for the correction, i just now got a big hearted lol moment when i see my armor is of 2.9k

over 2k being normal? gees, i have terrible defense then

i have a bit over 1800 toughness, all my trinkets give +toughness, +power and +precision, tough granted i am wanting to get the Crucible of Eternity armor set.

there goes my puffed chest about having a lot of armor, lol.

that is correct, lessay to play the game there are 1000 files, you downloaded up to 30%, meaning you downloaded 300 files, you close it, the percentage starts again from 0, but you only have to download 700 files after it.

like its said, every patch that comes up, conspiracy theories about ecto drop rate being nerfed, and those who claim that rng is rng, get dismissed by those who are claiming the nerf.

the last rares i got that i salvaged prior to the patches, i got 0 ectos, the two rares i got last night that i salvaged gave me 3 each.

rng is rng

you could always make a chat tab where you have guild chat filtered out.

alternatively you could ask some guild officer/leader to “talk” with said blabbermouth and maybe get them to tone down.

there is a new update, that introduced an item called “bag of wondrous goods”, this bag is dropped by some of the major bosses in the explorable modes, and they give each 3 tokens of the respective dungeon, so its not an exploit.

otherwise please do CoF again and take a screenshot of you opening the chests and getting the tokens from the chests (Which dont give the bag of wondrous goods) as otherwise your bug report isnt making much sense to me

Mark TB34RC3 did drop bag of wondrous stuff on path 1 route (for my group that is), however, it still remains that the bjarl doesnt collide against pillars properly

@helladoom
rubbish

routine maintenance for software would simply imply reseting/restarting the machines, as a machine keeps running, it is bound to slowdown as there are memory that is used, stored but no longer in use.
it happens to my machine, the longer i play a heavy game(ie newest videogame), the slower my machine becomes, particularly when i stop playing that game and try to do something else (slower response time, slower internet windows and tabs, slower office programs work, slower other games launching)

if they had a problem to “admit” bug fixes, they wouldnt have had such a list when they did the major update on the 15th

im sad to bump this, but anyone has tried running the dungeon? has it been accidentally fixed (as there is no point in the patches notes mentioning this)?

as far as i knew this 5 limit was there shortly after the betas/game release, and while i understand it sucks, its also a way to limit over abundance of some buffs.

while it is a bother that minions and pets can get such buff, i would like it if we could control and get those not buffed by our buffs.

otherwise, im uncaring about the limit

every time there is a new patch, everybody claims every drop thing got nerfed (be it ectos, rares, what not)

and everytime i log in and play, i dont really feel a change myself.

killed two champs in the new area last night

got a rare and a green from them, works for me.

“Of course with all those little things jumping on me and latching on to various body parts I think my charr is going to need a special kind of comb…”

yeah i noticed that, i’d hate to be a girl in that zone…

other than that, yeah, its not too solo friendly area, wanted to get my normal dungeon group doing coe, but sadly dont know yet if route 1 is fixed

was it fixed this patch?

so it has begun, you’ve started to notice the bad players.

teh warrior you are describing, is an idiot player, first of all when the armor is broken, all bonuses are gone, including MF, so he just wasted his own time and money doing that.

second of all, the gear is not indicative of the player skills
i did AC, all 3 paths, with a rare magic find armor set, i was among the ones who died the least, i still managed to survived the lt pull when i failed to dodge it, and i did AC until i had enough tokens to get the GS, the scepter and the shield and a few extra tokens

now im doing CoE path 1, and i am among the ones who die the least to it, still with rare MF armor set, mainly because im updating my armor to the coe armor, which is kind of glass cannon armor… but anyway, we also have a guildie who has lvl 78 or less green gears, who dies frecuently, but, she does her best, and in the last run has improved a lot, and still has only upgraded a couple pieces of armor with the CoE tokens.

its all player skill.

bad players are still bad players, good players are still good players.

http://www.gw2db.com/items/71366-red-ring-of-death

Anet, what you did there

i see it.

all i have to say is

lolz

ive seen the thread, and i also something niec and good, a cheaper way to obtain 20 slot bags.

and that gift of ascension interests me, anyone knows what that does?

“And guess what? These ascended items, they’re going to be a 50-100x worse grindfest than the exotics you spent time/patience getting. And the legendaries that will be even higher stats? Well.. Yeah.”

and how do you know they will be 50-100 worse grindfest?

“my point is that the increase in stats isn’t nearly as tremendous as everyone seems to think. Yes, it’s a better item stat-wise. No, it doesn’t make Exotics obsolete… not by a long shot.”
this

people think that suddenly with somebody having ascended gear will make them gods, when the stats of thsi are only marginally better.
i read that having full accessories would give a roughly 3.3% in dps increase, and thats hardly a noticeable size.

i played the game from 45 to 70 (and wvw included) in lvl 45 greens, it wasnt until orr that i found myself forced to upgrade to lvl 80 rares that made the difference, which was noticeable, but not because it was rares, but simply because it was also lvl 80 gear.
@spyderArachnid
they will be crucial tools ot survive, yes that is true, but you are forgetting where, INSIDE the fractals DUNGEON, this new dungeon is going to be what, 1% of what the current game is?
also its a dungeon, there will be people who will be bound to love this dungeon, and people that will loathe the dungeon, because they loath dungeons in general and dont even go into the normal ones, but as far as normal pve progression is concerned, exotic items are still just as good as they have been

it was the same with gw1, people cried about anet “not doing anything about the bots” that plagued the game, then when they started banning the bots, they also got false positives, then people where crying about how “inocent players are getting banned left and right” and how they should stop

there is no clear win here, but i am also on the side that its better to have false positives than it is to not have anything be done at all, if she misses the event start, i am very sorry for her, but she will get her account back

@bardes
the fact that the slot says precisely “infusion slot upgrade”, so if its saying infusion slot, it most likely will be exlcusive from upgrade slot. ascendant armor for infusions and exotic armors for sigils/runes

*We’ve updated the game for routine maintenance only. No content changes were included.

really? just a maintenance?

i was in a guild group, doing crucible of eternity, we went half way there, had just passed path 1 bomb deactivation section till my internet died out for a good 15 minutes till i could get in, but before i could, i had to download a patch, and after that patch was downloaded, i was screwed out of joining my guild.

thanks a bunch for it
sincerely
a frustrated GW2 gamer

*ps
im not quitting over this (so no, you cant has my stuff), but i did tell my guildmates i was gonna come rage here so i had to hold up that promise

*pps
why isnt there a log back in dungeon utility like with gw instance relogging?

ok so people have done the maths, i havent read the mega thread, but whats the difference in effects between

1000 and 1050 in power? do we know if there is a soft stat cap? at the very least with a base model like the warrior, whats the max stats that he can have, what are the soft and hard caps, and how such changes would make the damage increase?

@Acidid

i was thinking the same, taking notice of how the, slots the ascended armor have that is for infusion elements, if the ascended armor cant be slotted with the runes/sigils/crests, its a fair trade off, AT THE MOMENT, as we do not know how or what does the infusion do, it may give some stats, it may only give resistances, but one thing is for sure, we do not know what it will give.

so far too, this ascended armor will only be necesary in this dungeon, which makes me think about if it is really worth it, because aside of this ONE dungeon, it has no other place yet, unless future expansions add this, and IF they do add this, im sure they will also add more ways to get ascended or equivalent armors.

we just have to wait and see, 2 more days

if i recall correctly, people did go bonkers over the green items, saying that gold items would then lose its value beccause greens where easier to get than gold with perfect stats and reqs.

only difference is that ascended gear IS a little bit better than exotics, whereas greens wherent any better other than accessability.

personally i dont have a worry about the ascended gear, cant wait to see it and ahev it

i’d take an orichalcum pickaxe/axe/hoe and rare salvage kits in an easy to find location (oh woe is me, why did you guys fixed the LA master weaponsmith T_T) the axe/hoe are not too easy to find (for me, imma lazy to go wp all over orr to find them) and the pickaxe i think is non existant yet.

but yeah, more things for karma prz

Guardian

with our armor and damage mitigation skills, as well as some of the heals we have (combination of virtues of courage and resolve, shouts), i am closer to a dedicated support char more so than a damage dealer, and i feel pretty good about it (i played wow as a paladin, lineage as a knight, aion as both templar and cleric), so i pretty much like this combination, and with the traits i have for rezzing bonuses (shield of absorption and the on revive gives regen, protection and aegis) allows me to revive people with a bonus for us both, as well as allows me to ignore a few hits if timing right some shouts (retreat + virtue of courage).

all in all, loving it all, granted i do miss being able to tank like hell like aion’s templar, or being a dedicated healer like the cleric, but i always forget about it all whenever i begin a gw2 play session

@eladriel
you didnt catch his point

he wants to be able to take the runes off of the armor without DESTROYING the armor, using a black lion salvage kit, while it has a 100% to remove the rune safely, it also will STILL destroy the armor piece, he wants a salvage kit where he can take out the runes without destroying the piece of armor.

yeah, that would be nice