Guild Wars 2

Honestly an easy fix would be to let people buy Mystic Clovers on the trading post. I feel like that’s a little more reasonable…

Wow, I’m sorry but the Mystic clover system for legendaries is just terrible implementation. There’s no logical reason why Mystic Clovers aren’t 100% in the mystic forge. I’m so frustrated right now with this game. I tried to split them up into stacks of 1 and it literally wouldn’t let me do anything other than the recipe for 10. I spent so much gold and didn’t even get a single mystic clover. This is a really horrible idea, and frankly something needs to change for the legendary system.

Devs keep talking about how they wanted Legendaries to be more meaningful, but I fail to see how RNG makes something meaningful.

Asclepios.4295:

and the only people who attempt it do it for the achievements. It took me a few days to find a map that way that succeeded to get my own achievements.

That’s why I need to do it. Trying to unlock the headpiece and title for my revenant. I feel like the map itself is broken as a whole. Anyways I tried to guest on a different world. Is there a best world for it?

Is it just me or does this meta need a nerf? I can never get enough players to kill the chak gerent. I feel like it’s really unbalanced.

They’ve had one every year. This was the only year there wasn’t store discounts. It really sucks. : /

Carighan.6758:

Uh, wasn’t there the 50%-off-of-all-style-items sale?

Yeah, but they’ve always had like bank slots, home instance nodes, bag slots, etc discounted.

Basically all the important stuff.

I am really disappointed. Like every year since the release of GW1 we’ve had a black friday sale or cyber Monday one with discounts in the gem store…

Is there a reason we didn’t have one this year?

Cyber Monday maybe? They’ve had a sale every year since GW1. There will probably be one tomorrow.

CureForLiving.5360:

Elkan.5389:

Here’s my impression: it’s virtually impossible to level without the mindless grinding of mobs WITHOUT events/hearts attached to them.

Let’s re-phrase that: it is virtually impossible to level as fast as you would like without the mindless grinding of mobs WITHOUT events/hearts attached to them.
They were designed to take a while to get, it’s you’re desire to get everything now that is the issue since it was never designed to be gotten within a few days.

Elkan.5389:

I’ve spent the last 5 hours tonight trying to level one single mastery.

That’s not too bad I guess. What level of mastery?

Funny, that’s not what they advertised. They said that masteries were going to make Legendaries more easily obtainable.

Every time I level it up, it says 87%. What’s going on? Anyone else having this issue?

Not to necro this thread, but I totally agree with the OP. Mallagans Valor is always contested, and it’s literally the most important waypoint on the verdant brink map imo

Purgatori.3645:

the hero point just down from the WP …. I’ve done this 7 times and never gotten credit for it. Whether I’ve started it or joined in … it will not give me credit for it. Does anyone else have this problem?

I’m having the same exact issue. It’s very frustrating. Yet 1 more reason why hero points should be soloable.

If I’m going to open them and sell the dyes…is it worth it?

Dovienya.6597:

the jungle may require an adjustment in gear and playstyle.

I am also… neurologically challenged… especially when it comes to depth perception. most things in this game, I can learn over time, but the new zones are a special kind of challenge for me, yet I am able to tackle them. So, maybe try new ways (build- gear/skills/etc. – some fights are difficult when not at range) or get some guild mates/friends/find a group of people in the world to follow?

So what you’re telling me is that there’s a holy trinity now and Anet did a complete 180? I now cant play as anything other than a tank?

Seriously…I just started the expansion…the very first area and I’m already about to ragequit. The mastery system needs to just be outright abolished…and everything needs a nerf in HoT…even the non elites.

This is dumb, all I want to do is play the story…that’s all I care about.

Staggashack.6583:

And now i cant even log into my account. says “guild wars 2 has encountered an error” and asks me for a fresh password entry but to only fail to connect

Same here

I can’t get back into the game now. It keeps disconnecting me when I try and log my character into the game.

For whatever reason I’m stuck on the loading screen of the “Cornered” story mission. I keep having to close out of gw2.

And the game just dc’d me while I was at the loading screen.

Just got my rev to 80, and was all excited to play through the maguuma area as the elite specialization, only to realize that it’s gated between a crap ton of hero points. I am so mad! This is complete bullcrap!!!!!

Oh yay! Lol, that scared me for a second.

Just wondering. I have enough saved to instant level my new Rev when HoT comes out and wasn’t sure what they meant by changing the world exp consumables.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Here’s a passage from the News Blog:

…the Gift of Glory, purchased with the new tradable material Shards of Glory that only comes from Player vs. Player reward tracks; and the Gift of War, purchased with a new tradeable material, Memories of Battle, that only comes from playing World vs. World.

Gotcha. It’s still going to be harder to obtain legendary items now though. The old system is still superior to this new one.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Or buy the necessary materials off the TP. Whichever tickles your fancy.

My understanding is that gifts were not going to be tradeable because they didn’t want people to “buy” legendaries anymore.

Just saw the new update on legendaries…and I just wanted to make sure I read that correctly…we will have to play WvW to complete our legendary item? This is so dumb!

Erukk.1408:

jojojoon.8607:

Erukk.1408:

That’s why they gave you the option of unlocking it two ways. You can either search out the events themselves to unlock, since most of them was relatively easy to do, or you can simply pay a small fee and some skill points to unlock the ones you want but you don’t want to do the events for.

To unlock all your traits so you can experiment or re-trait depending on what you want to do (www roam, www zerg, pve, etc), you need over 40 gold and 360 skill points. That is not a small cost of gold and skill points. Now, multiply this by the number of alts you have.

Hence why I said, “That’s why they gave you the option of unlocking it two ways.” Unless players are allergic to going out into different areas and doing the simple unlocks like “Kill XXX” or “Complete XXX event”, they are in no way paying anywhere near the 40 gold and 360 skill points. For the ones they don’t want to do, like the area completion ones and the like, they can simply pay some silver and sp to unlock.

Heck, a good chuck of that gold and skill points comes from unlocking the GMXIII traits, and those can be all done in a couple of hours by standing around in Orr or Southsun waiting for the event to start.

Wooow, we have the option of punching ourselves in the face once…or we can do it twice!

…those are the choices that they gave us. The reality is that both choices are horrible…and the old system was in every single way (with the exception of refunding traits) superior to this new one. To be frank, this new system is nothing but a waste of time.

Harvest.2506:

I have 8 eighties, its stupid easy and fun to do it. just go uplevel in wvw if you’re lazy like me.

Sounds like it’s easy for you to say because all of your chars are maxed…leveling up another alt is even more stupidly boring now so of course you don’t have to deal with it like the rest of us. Really though…is Ghostcrawler working at Anet now or something? I mean who seriously thought messing with the traits like this would be a good idea???

Why would you do this??? I seriously thought it was a bug today when my ranger wasn’t getting any trait points. This is why I quit WoW: I didn’t like the changes that they made to the talent trees, and I’m an altoholic, so it sucked even more trying to level up another character. I still have like 7 more chars to level in GW2…thanks a lot! -.-

This has to be Nexon’s influence. Are you guys going to start selling skill points in the gem store or something???

Thanks, appreciate the quick response. It’s been a while since I’ve played GW2.

Hey guys, I need some help with my ranger. For leveling in PVE should I use longbows or shortbows? Thanks!

I’d love to see a few forums for off-topic things not related to GW2 such as movies, books, other games, events, and politics, and hardware. It would help to encourage a more social community. Thanks!

Luthan.5236:

If it really meant 100% they would have included everything. Dungeon pois and stuff like that is not included.

There are different definitions of 100%. And afaik the Mists and the WvW area do not even belong to Tyria.

This…though I didn’t even know they had POI’s in dungeons tbh…

Gilburt.9146:

I get by fine with the system the way it is, although I wouldn’t mind seeing WvW completion be a separate achievement from regular world completion so it’s only relevant to people who actually want to play WvW.

I’d be ok with that so long as it isn’t required for 100% map completion for the legendary.

There’s not really even any carrots for pvp. That’s my complaint…

TacoJoe.6083:

I’d say they are trolling the serious WvWvWers. Now your map has a que because 20 people are trying to do their completion for a sparkle pony staff.

See? That’s another good reason to get rid of the map points. It ruins the fun for people who actually want to do WvWvW…

Seriously it is IMPOSSIBLE to get 100% completion. I’d LOVE to do WvWvW, but I don’t want to be forced into it. This is so pointlessly annoying. I mean how do you expect us to play the game??? I’ve spent lots of gold trying to win a map and it’s not making a difference at all. Heck it’s pvp, we shouldn’t even have to repair armor for dying…

I mean there’s absolutely no reason to make us get a whole bunch of vistas and pois and skill points in WvWvW unless you’re trying to purposely tick us off. -.-

mcwurth.2081:

disabling trade system in any MMO would kill the MMO regardless of gold sellers or not. we got used to trading in games and we take the botters and gold sellers for granted and hope the devs find a way to minimize it, what else.

Runescape found that out the hard way when they ruined the wilderness and put a trade cap in the game. Bad example I know, but you’re right: it’s a bad idea to punish innocent players for what a small minority of idiots do.

Agreed. Screw WVWVW. Whoever at Anet decided it was a good idea needs to be fired. This was a terrible idea, and the only PVP I ever participate in is arenas. So sick of this stupid world completion crap, I’ve pretty much ragequit GW2. Also meaning that Anet has just forfitted money I was going to spend on future gems. -.-

I agree, frankly, they should just nerf Orr in general. I ragequit so many times because I can’t get 100% map completion. It’s seriously ticking me off. At least make events optional there…

I switched to a European server to help a friend, and now I can’t switch back the server I was originally on. What gives?

Castor Zenith.2039:

I don’t think anyone but gold spammers wants gold spam to stay, Acewings. This forum moves pretty quickly so your thread might have just gone unnoticed. I disagree with your proposal though.

I can appreciate the frustration at seeing so many bots, map chat gold sales and in-game mail about gold sales, but I don’t think this is the right solution. Yes, most people whose accounts were hacked have made some mistake but the solution is to educate rather than punish those who have slipped up. Not everyone is as security-savvy as they should be, sure, but the right path is to help them learn and get them safe so they can enjoy the game again.

People are already educated on it, that’s why ANet has a security guide. People are just not listening and as a result we’re seeing hacked accounts get used to spam other players and make the game unenjoyable. Hacked accounts that are used to spam other players should be instantly deleted, and that player should be forced to buy another key and create a new account. I guarantee the problem would fix itself then because people wouldn’t want to keep wasting money on making new accounts.

No support for this? Nobody wants to get rid of gold spam???

I’m sorry, but we’re all tired of being sent gold spam mail. Here’s what happens, a couple of morons decide to sign up for GW2 and then they get hacked and now the gold seller is sending everyone spam mail in-game. Us normal players who actually follow the account safety guidelines are getting punished because of the idiots who don’t practice safe account security. The solution to fix this problem is simple:

PERMABAN every account that gets their account hacked and used to spam other players in game.

Of course all the other players who get hacked are going to say “well it’s not my fault that I accidently clicked on an ad that had a virus, or opened a phishing email, or browsed the internet on un-safe sites, or used the same email + password combo on every site, or shared my account info, or played on a public computer!”…my responses to all of those is “YES it is your fault”. We’re being punished because players won’t practice proper account safety guidelines. It’s time to treat people who have been hacked just as harshly as the hackers themselves. Delete their accounts, they’re just as much to blame as the hackers themselves…

I agree. Get rid of the scaling, or only scale down a maximum of 20 or so levels.

I agree with the OP, vistas are SERIOUSLY starting to kitten me off. I’m about to roundhouse my monitor…

Agreed with this proposal x100000000000000!

fellyn.5083:

The way I envisioned it to work was that it would downlevel you to the max level the zone was created for. So if you went to the 1-15 zone you would always be 15 in that zone.

That still doesn’t address the loot problem or the fact that it’s not worth it to revisit those zones due to costs associated with dying…

Please? There would be absolutely no way for a level 80 to grief a level 3. All that noob player would have to do is hit his quest/event monster one time to get credit. Once. ONCE. Nobody is that slow…

Nobody would really end up getting griefed…

At the VERY least, Anet you need to tune the downleveling system to within like 20 levels. What I mean by that is if I’m level 80 and I go to a zone to help a level 23 guildy kill a level 24 mob, the system should let me stay 20 levels above that mob. Thus, I would be able to be level 44~ in that zone. There is no reason to force players to level match the monster that they are fighting. It’s unfair, makes all that work people put into leveling feel unrewarding, and most importantly the loot doesn’t scale.

What’s the problem with taking a higher level char into a lower level area and dominating exactly? It’s not like you’d be able to grief people out of events or quests as all they would have to do is hit said monsters for like 1 damage to get credit…

The downleveling systems needs to be completely removed or capped at like 20 levels. As it stands right now, going into a low level area means low level drops. If the loot doesn’t scale to my top level, why should my top level scale down to like level 7 loot???

If Anet was truely concerned about making zones active, they would try to carrot as many people as possible instead of beating them with the stick.

Also, I totally agree with you OP, the downleveling system is completely unfair.

Rika.7249:

Honestly, I would happily see them banned.

It would reduce the population too greatly though, which is why it doesn’t happen.

People need to stop being a-holes when it comes to PvP.

It’s like the MOBA sickness has come here.

I think you’re right tbh. However, I still think ANet needs to take a tougher stance on people like him ASAP so that it doesn’t get too out of hand.

I was just in a BG? (not sure if they’re called that in GW2 or not) Anyways…it was my first PVP match like EVER…and teams got autobalanced and we started losing. Some dude on my team kept telling me to go take the points, which I tryed to do and then 3 people came out of nowhere and started ganging up on me in-game and I died and he goes “you suck!” or something to that effect. I then told this player off and he goes “umad homie?” or something. I chewed the player out, then I put the player on ignore, and then reported him.

But idiots like that guy are a BIG problem in PVP and I feel like GM’s need to get on top of it. The same thing happens in WoW where there’s some PvP flamers in-game who completely ruin the competitive enjoyment by flaming other players…and something has to be done about them.

Oh yeah, the funniest part is that I got a “Top player” glory bonus on the right hand side and it was my first PVP match ever even though “I suck”.