Guild Wars 2

First off i got to say i really love Guild Wars 2, but i’m really worried about it’s number of active users, more specifically in the expansion maps. I was curious if there were any up-to date numbers on active users per day or anything similar , because it seems to me like there’s not a lot of activity when it comes to users who bought the expansion. Already it’s getting moderately difficult to find players doing any of the map metas, and unfortunately it seems the maps where designed around that, and if users start dropping even more i feel like the maps will become unplayable.

That being said, i kinda sidetracked more on the reason why i am asking so:
TLDR Is there any place we can see active number of users daily because i’m really curious on how the game is doing in terms of population.

These kinds of games always rip off artwork. I had an add once for a facebook game that was using screenshots from Smite. It’s a pretty scum practice.

That’s it? How is it at all difficult for Car Crashed to keep all 5 of their teams in the TOP 10 (at least that’s what it looked like last time i checked before Wintersday him the leaderboard, or at least i can’t find it anymore). It’s 5 matches…you can do those in under 2 hours in one day.

Guess i have to look forward to seeing Car Crashed own all 10 of the slots on the leaderboard.

Necro is a safe bet them. Even when they were considered weak, they were still useful when D/D celestial eles ruled pvp , because they were pretty much the class that countered them.

I think reaper would best suit your needs for a condi build that’s pretty strong in PvP, and i think roaming with your mates in WvW would be fun for you as well with that build. You can trait reaper to make chill deal damage , and can stack some pretty decent stacks of poison and chill in reaper shroud. As far as weapons go you can run scepter/dagger(or warhorn) and staff.

Bumping this up. I really hope these issues get addressed, though since the expansion launch i kinda feel like the devs lost their passion for the game, and don’t really care anymore. Before the expansion launched i actually got excited when i saw the devs communicating so much with us , and tuning the game based on our feedback, i was really hoping this was gonna be the new arena net going forward.

It would be a pitty to see the PvP community die due to the devs taking so long to fix things. Hell they even went back on their promise of a balance two weeks before every season. The launch of the expansion should not be considered a balance patch, this first pre-season patch was EXACTLY the most needed due to the highest issues with balance on the launch of the expansion.

Skeletor.9360:

the expansion actually took things away from me. In this case 1 class selection.

The expansion took the revenant away from you ? So before it launched were you some kind of wizard that could play rev without it , and now you can’t ?

For a bow imo the best character to pick , would be Keiran Thackeray. He is a legit legend, and since we don’t have Javelins, we can use his longbow from since he was a ranger, and then as utility skills we could have shouts from his paragon side. xD

Will we be able to see all the legendaries on launch ? Because i’m unsue whether i’ll want ot start working on the Juggernaut or i’ll like the new legendary Hammer more. Even if they are not craftable from the start, will we at least be able to see them ?

Thing is, a few seconds of invul wouldn’t be a problem if people would play something else besides glass cannon builds focused less on skill and more on just killing the other guy as fast as possible , preferably before he has time to react and you actually have to fight him. Ofc we’re gonna run those skills if everyone else plays the same style of build that’s so easily countered.

I’m having this problem as well. I even opened a ticket but all i got was a standard response that they are aware of the issue and are working on it. Looking at this post’s initial start date looks like they barely care if we can complete it or not, since it’s been two months now and still no fix…

I have the same issue, with being stuck at Forging the pact , and unable to select the personal story back. I’ve contacted customer service but only got back a default sounding reply. "The Guild Wars 2 Development Team is aware of this issue and team members currently are working on addressing it. "

Jameson.5603:

This is a guess on my part, but it looks like you have the Living Story activated. I think you’ll have to re-activate your personal story instead to play it. You can only have one active at a time

That’s the problem though , i can’t activate the personal story back. I have no option to do so. Even if i pick quit this episode in the living story season 2.

I’d like to mention that the personal story is really important to me when playing a character, so i’d be willing to redo the personal story with him if that is what it takes, if a GM can’t reset the progress from 0 or at least from a chapter that will make my character be able to finish all of it.

[Update]: So i tried contacting customer support and all i got back so far was a "Development Team is aware of this issue and team members currently are working on addressing it. " message. So i’m guessing this will take a while to fix, so meanwhile i’m hoping if someone also encountered this problem , they could share if they had a fix for.

So i took a break from my character , and now upon coming back to it i realized i am unable to finish my personal story , because the next quest line won’t start. Is there any way to fix this or do i just have to deal with the fact that arena net broke my character with the story changes they made?

Wow….just wow…not sure if the skills weren’t working properly but if it launches like this, then this is just a horrible joke.

I’m actually putting the game on hold until i can play rev, since it only like to main one character, and it’s the class i wanna play. so hopefully they release it earlier.

Does anyone know any good youtubers that play guardian ? I mostly care about sPvP, though PvE is ok too. Recently i’ve discovered Arken and he seems pretty cool so far. Do you guys know anyone you would recommend ?

In terms of utility i’m guessing you’re using medi skills , and one of the weapon is the torch right ? But besides that what amulet/runes/sigils would you run with a condi build? I’ve only ever played power , so i’m not really sure what ot use to test out a condi guard.

So is condi our most viable build right now ? Or is it just as viable to run Marauder power? I was thinking with the new traits i would try marauder and run Radiance/Valor/Virtues with S/F + H. But your latest two videos kinda made me feel like we should only be running condi now?

I was playing in the fields of ruin both last night and this morning , and the game is lagging horribly, and it randomly killed me with nothing around. Last night it happened twice, and this morning it happened 4 times over the span of 5 minutes, making the game unplayable for me.

Unholy Fervor: Reduces recharge of axe skills by 20% <strong>and deal 10% more damage to vulnerable foes.</strong>

The axe skills do ? Because if it applies to axe only then it’s meh, but if it refers to the necromancer in general, then this is an amazing trait.

Rym.1469:

Hope they at least post the notes.

From what we’ve seen:

- Chill converts to Resistance. That’s….disturbing. Thought that Taunt will,

-Boonrip order will be randomized,

-Shoutbow loses Warhorn Condition conversion, it’s changed to removal,

-So far, there’s A LOT of Burning flying aroud for mentioned professions.

-Warrior and Ranger get traits that apply Weakness to attackers when hit and Protection to you/Bleeding to foes on very short ICDs and with long durations. sigh.

-Balance Patch goes live 23rd July

You also got to love warrior getting +100 precision every time they activate a signet , so that can stack all the way up to +500 precision, and it was for a pretty insane duration as well…

Sagat.3285:

We’re next \o/!!!

Not anymore we’re not! They stopped the stream. Kitten my life…

Anchoku.8142:

Some of the talk implied corruption and condition transfers will be pointless

I know right? Most of the traits seem to apply it constantly so it’s pretty much pointless to try and remove the boons. And conditions also need to constantly be applied. So pretty much we have 2 dead skill types especially for PvP. Corruption and our kittenty Shouts. Pretty much leaves us with minions which are meh, and Wells and Spectral Skills which are actually kinda decent.

Yeah other classes got HUGE buffs to damage and survivability, and we will most likely just get crap.

No , actually cripple now no longer affects travel distance , and neither does chill….so you know…basically the only thing that was somewhat keeping enemies from running away.

They just admited on stream that the movement changes broke necro, and “they’ll take a look at it at a later date”. So basically we’re still gonna be the worst class, except so far , Elementalist got buffed across the board , and i have a feeling this is gonna be the case with the rest of the meta classes. And most likely inc nerfs for Engi and Necro.

Hey guys the Reaper will be totally slow, but chill will be enough to keep your target from escaping! ….oh wait , never mind, kitten reapers, you get to just stand there while most classes get away and kite you endlessly.

JonPeters.5630:

A couple notes on Dragonhunter. We went with this name because we felt it was evocative of the medieval witch hunters. Guardians consider themselves protectors of the innocent. Followers of their faith be it in honor, valor, etc. The origin of the dragonhunter is a more subtle nuanced version of this. Guardians fight for justice and the dragonhunter faction believes justice is the eradication of dragons and their minions. I understand this is a lot more high concept than Mesmer but at the end of the day we felt like we wanted to try and push a more mature theme here. I hope this helps explain our thinking. We had other generic names in mind but felt like it was important to have a mix of spec names that are generic fantasy, more Tyrian fantasy, and more high concept. This one falls more in the third category.

Thanks,

Jon

My only problem with the name is looking forward into the future, what happens when we kill all the dragons ? Does the specialization get renamed to Retired Dragon Hunter?

I agree with the original poster. At the moment in Tier 1 it is officially impossible to get full world completion because of WvW because we’ve been the same servers for more than 2 months and the team colors don’t change around so you can’t get the points inside the garrisons .

@ Faux Play: Yes it is the same color if the servers or rankings don’t change. Desolation’s been red team for 2 months now.

I agree that the size of the characters was a bit of a problem , but eventually i got used to where the jump where and did it with my asura. Plus after the first few jumps there usually were like 3-4 people left out of 10-30 doing it.

Hey guys, test your characters now. Mine seems to be working now without me doing anything. I just played for a while on an alt.

Not being sarcastic. Thank you so much Anet for giving us a fun challenge. It took me 2 hours and a half of getting angry and maniacally laughing at the stupid mistakes i was making but it was a fun experience and a memorable one at that. And i really appreciate that you guys didn’t nerf it or make it easier in any way…unlike some other mmo that turns everything easy mode anytime a few people cry it’s too hard. Cheers and hope to see more of these in the future.

Derkon i’m Desolation as well. How about you two ? Maybe it’s a server issue .

Hi guy, i just found this topic and wanted to say i’m glad you guys can help us get our items back. I messed up in the first 5 mins of the game by deleting my first guy , so i hope you guys can help me get them back . My ticket is 121102-000792. Thanks in advance Anet. ^^

When the earlier update went live i was in a story mission , and when i exited the mission after finishing it , it just automatically closed my client and updated. And then when i wanted to travel to Hoelbrak it got stuck on the loading screen and now after tons of restarts i still can’t access my character anymore. Though the rest of my characters are fine. If not A-net then perhaps someone around here got some advice to be able to play my char? (After loading a while i get code 7)