Guild Wars 2

Still bugged on Ebay

Champ bags give T6? I’ve opened a ton and literally haven’t gotten a single T6 mat out of them. >.>

Yes, more ways of getting T6 (including lodestones) would be nice. ~35s for powerful blood is ridiculous.

The last couple of weeks I’m finding myself increasingly discouraged with this game, so I wanted to throw my voice out there and offer some suggestions.

1. No more Grind Wars 2. Every cool thing in this game is grind grind grind. You either grind for gold or grind for 50 million whatsits and toss them in the mystic forge or grind 1000 RNG boxes. Can we please get some awesome items that have something besides grind attached? It doesn’t have to be easy. It doesn’t have to be entirely grind free. But some epic quests for loot wouldn’t hurt. The new ascended weapons are pure insanity, especially for people that play alts or multiple builds.

2. Meaningful content. I’m starting to think the Living Story is a joke. If I understand, there are 4 teams spending 4 months at a time on one month of living story content. Maybe I’m wrong. But honestly? This month has been a joke. 2 cutscenes/instances, a small-ish dungeon, and some zergy farming with Invasions and the Pavilion. Throw in the escorts, Gauntlet, and such not, and you have maybe what? About 3 hours of actual content? That took 4 months to make?

3. Permanent content. We’ve been hearing it for three months now… “We hear you, more permanent content is coming!” Umm… when? I haven’t seen it yet. Instead we get a bunch of grindy achievements and are told to do them in 2-4 weeks. Can we get some content that I can complete on my own time? I don’t like having to choose between working on an alt or doing WvW and trying to knock out achievements. Not everything has to be zergy super social fluff. It’s fun in small doses, but give us some more personal story that we can complete at our own pace. I realize that Anet wanted to get away from the traditional quests, but do we have to do it completely? What’s wrong with getting a quest that will send me all over the world without having a zerg of 100 people following me?

Don’t get me wrong, I love the game. It’s just quickly starting to degrade into something I’m able to tolerate less and less.

So, I haven’t had an opportunity to do the new dungeon yet. I just haven’t had time; I’ve had things going on in real life and doing other things in game that have precluded me from doing it.

Personally I like the idea of new Living Story content every two weeks, but I think we need more than two weeks to complete the content; look at the Dragon Bash achievements: we’ve had 4 weeks to do those, and only 2 for Sky Pirates.

I’m fine with temporary content… I actually like the idea of a world that changes… but it needs to stay in game longer than 2 weeks just to give people extra time to do it. IMO, Dragon Bash should be phased out on the 9th with Sky Pirates remaining in for another 2 weeks.

Thoughts?

Teq, Shat, SB, Maw… most of the world/meta event bosses in general… they should be more like Jormag and Grenth… ok, maybe not QUITE as hard as Grenth, but still. Multi-phase encounters with different mechanics that have a chance of actually failing.

This would be an awesome suggestion. CoF p1 is stupidly broken, and this on top of a nice rebalancing of CoF p1 would go a long way towards helping.

I’m not sure how much I like that idea; I’m afraid it would just mean people would do 90% of the dungeon on their war/mes, then have someone log into an alt to unlock the chest, then go back to their main character.

My wife and I were talking earlier, and we can’t help but wonder what the point of story mode is. It seems very hard to get a group, and I think part of that is because there’s no real incentive to run them. I would love to see Anet introduce better story mode rewards… not as good as explorable, but, say, 30 tokens on the first run per day, 10 the second, and so on. It would also make it easier for newbies to get into dungeon running and still progress towards dungeon armor/weapons.

I could see this working out similarly to the Divine Aura from GW1. Each profession gets a unique special effect… a special pet for rangers, flaming auras for warriors based on adrenaline level, blue flaming auras for guardians, etc. etc. Something unique that is based on the main “theme” of the profession. Could be fun.

One thing I’ve enjoyed was having access to Orr karma vendors for armor, but the lack of complete sets and only three options is kind of a letdown. I would love to see Anet expand on the available armor options at the Orr karma vendors; even if we don’t add any new skins, it would be nice to be able to use all this karma for a wider variety of exotic gear.

Anet should really post a schedule of when the fireworks are scheduled to launch. It’s silly that we have to stand around waiting.

So here’s the deal… I’ve got 4 players who need a guild. I’m kind of picky about my guilds, so here’s what we’re looking for:

• Maturity – You don’t have to be up tight… I like a good troll as well as anyone, but I draw that line at racism/sexism/etc. garbage in general chat.
• Large-ish Guild – I really like doing stuff with guildies, and I would want any guild to have plenty of active players. It doesn’t have to be hundreds, but enough where it’s easy to grab a guildie for dungeons, or a bunch of us hop into WvW.
  Actually plays together – I would like for the guild to actually do things as a group, and encourage other members to join in.
• Casual Friendly – We tend to be casual to semi-hardcore players. We don’t relentless farm or min max or always try to find the most efficient way of doing things. We just do what interests us. A guild with a similar atmosphere would be awesome… happy doing hardcore dungeon runs one night, working on zone completion as a gruop the next, then rolling into WvW as an organized strike force the next.
• Helpful – I would like a guild that is helpful to people who haven’t done content before. You don’t have to dump gold on them or buy them everything they want, but if they need help running AC story, help them out if you have time. I love helping people run content, even if I’ve done it before, and I find I’m happiest with other people with similar mindsets.
• PvX – We mostly lean towards PvE and WvW, but we’re not above jumping into sPvP if we have people to play with.
• Patient – We’re all decent players, but we make mistakes like everyone else. Not looking for an environment where the game is treated like a job.
• Voice chat – Would be really nice, but not a must have. If a guild hit on all of the above, we wouldn’t mind helping et voice chat setup.

It probably sounds like a lot, but like I said, I’m picky. We’re pretty low drama players who enjoy helping out guildies, even if we’re a little shy to start. We’re currently rocking Ehmery Bay, but would be open to moving to another NA server as long as it has a good, friendly population.

Thanks!

EDIT: Just so everyone knows we normally play between 1800-2300 EST/GMT-5 M-F, and are around pretty regularly a lot of the weekend.

Swarthy Avenger.3072:

Hell why even have levels in the first place. Why is Orr “gated content”? I don’t have the time to get my Mesmer to 80, I want to run Arah at level 10?

I would actually be ok with that… it’s basically how the first game worked. Levels 1-20 were basically a tutorial… longer in Prophecies, much shorter in Factions, and about right in Nightfall. You learned how the game worked, got some skills, and then you were tossed into the world at max level and max armor.

You improved by getting new skills and learning to make builds. You could buy runes and inscriptions that synergized with your build. But you never had to grind for additional gear.

Sure, there was gated content with PvE-only skills and rank, but it’s generally accepted that it was a bad idea for the very reasons we’ve described regarding Ascended Gear.

Again, I say… there are tons of MMOs offering gear progression. GW2 was advertised from the beginning to be different. Many, many players came to the game because of this. Why did the gear-chasers buy this game when it was advertised as something that didn’t offer them what they want?

Swarthy Avenger.3072:

People play MMOs for a sense of character progression. I want to improve my "guy’ every time I log in. If i can’t do that, what is the point in playing? To dance around LA in pretty dyed exotics that everyone else has?

I’m sorry, but this community is pathetic. You cry about everything. Most MMO’s need a carrot on the stick to keep people logging in and playing.

If anything this game suffers from an extreme lack of progression at end-game. The journey is fantastic. 1-80 is so fun, I’ve done it 3 times now since launch.

Fractals of the Mists are an amazing set of mini-dungeons, and I have had a blast running each one at least once. I have no desire to repeatedly run through them though with absolutely no chance at improving my character.

Speak for yourself. I and many others played GW1 with no gear progression at all and a very low level cap. Why? Because it’s fun. I could roll a new character, get to max level and max gear in a few hours tops. Then I could go do whatever I wanted: PvP, dungeons, Underworld, DoA. I didn’t need any carrot, just people to hang out with and play with.

There are dozens of MMOs that offer you your carrot: why the kitten do you people have to poison the one series that offers something to the rest of us?

Overall, I was pretty pleased with Lost Shores, but I had some things that irritated me.

Lost Shores Event: Day 1 was a mess. Period. Time limited quests like the scavenger hunt are a bad, bad idea while things are still so buggy. Please spend more time looking at your fundamentals… scalability, server capacity, event scripting… etc… to try to find whatever is causing so many events and quests to bug. Lag was terrible.

Day 2… eh, I was pretty annoyed after Day 1. But I love the new island and found the event chains challenging.

Day 3, I had a blast. The lack of mob loot drops was really annoying and there was some lag that should be looked at (as well as other players disconnecting). But the event itself was fun. However, the reinforcement stages were pretty rough and not fun. The other parts (using boulders, vents, rock slides, etc.) were great. The chest was good and rewarding. I actually got my first exotics, so yay.

Fractals of the Mists: Love it, although I haven’t had a chance to do much. Great fun and a great idea.

Ascended Weapons: Cautiously optimistic, but tread carefully. I love this game BECAUSE it’s easy to get the best gear in the game. I want to get my max gear then go do stuff. I don’t want to be eternally chasing better gear and falling behind only to get roflstomped in WvW.

sPvP: New map looks fun, although I haven’t tried it. Really want some more quality of life fixes here.

Overall…. 6/10.

If I could make one suggestion: do Wintersday and put new content on hold long enough to go back to basics. Surge on bug fixing and address the core problems here, whatever they are. Right now you’re in reactive mode, trying to fix things as they break. I know things are probably working fine in testing, but breaking when you throw thousands at it.

I believe in Anet. I still do. I’m a little more skeptical saying that now, but I do. Now go forth and kick kitten.

Awesome. Didn’t get much loot I would use, but that was a nice chest… good reward for a fun event. Thanks Anet!

I think it’s fun, just… loot makes it better :/

Oh I’m not sure either, but I hope so… I haven’t even gotten a junk drop :/ I wonder if loot has been bugged, because I’ve gotten very little the last 3 days.

The theoretical end rewards I hope we get from Phase 3.

Are we supposed to get ANY drops from Phase 3? I’ve killed hundreds of these things now and haven’t gotten a single loot drop… and no one in my group has either. I really hope the end rewards are worth it or this is going to be costly …

One of my favorite parts in the original Guild Wars was the costumes. You paid $10 in the in game store, and could then pick up a costume on all of your characters. You could wear them in battle. If you deleted it, you could get another.

This is one area where I feel that GW2 is a step backwards, because when you buy the costume, you can only wear it on one character at a time (or at least that I know of). You can’t fight in it. If you delete it, it’s gone.

What’s the deal here? Why the change? I bought the witch costume over Halloween, and I love it, but I don’t know if I will buy another after seeing how limited they are.

ColinJohanson.2394:

The event and the stuff going on that weekend will basically all be able to be accessed by characters of any level using our level-scaling technology.

We want everyone to be able to check it out.

More details….As they emerge from the depths.

You guys are my heroes. I need a shirt that says “I Believe in Anet” because you guys deliver each and every time. There may be bugs here and there, but even then you always make it right. Thanks for all you do!

Can only speak for myself and the people I play with, but we seek out events and do every one we come across.

This is aimed more at Anet than anything, but any info would be appreciated. My wife and I are currently on our level 57 personal story. Is there anything we need to do to prepare for the LS event? I would assume we need to get ot level 80 and probably finish our personal story… or will it be available to anyone like the Halloween content?

Just throwing in my feedback: I loved the Clocktower even though I didn’t complete it. My biggest problems were:

1. It was time limited. Throw in 3 days of many servers’ portal events being bugged (making it VERY hard to enter the MK realm), plus a hurricane for a lot of folks, and that really cuts down on the time we can try it and still get to the other content.

2. Multi-player instance. One of the biggest issues I saw were people griefing by summoning elementals and other creatures just before they go in, so you have one more large body running around.

Aside from that, the puzzle was great and I would love to see more like it. I just wish I had more time to work on it considering I couldn’t get into the MK realm for nearly 3 days.

Ah, oh well, thanks for the info. I had a blast with Halloween anyway and will just hope we get the Clock Tower back next year… I’m a completionist and it’s going to drive me nuts not seeing it on my achievements list. LOL

Since so many servers seem to be bugged with regards to entering the Mad King’s Labryinth, will there be any kind of extension? We have tried and tried to get into the Labryinth to do the Clock Tower, and have had no luck. Is there any chance that the Labyrinth (or at least the Clock Tower) will remain open for those who haven’t had a chance to do it? It seems only fair considering it’s been bugged for days. :/

This is something that’s been going on for awhile, but I haven’t had a chance to look into yet. When I open up my friends list, my frame rate drops dramatically. Normally I get anywhere between 40-60 FPS; when my friends list is up, it drops down to 10-20. Anyone else experiencing this problem, and if so, have you found a fix?

I tried putting my graphics settings on “Best Performance” and opening up the contacts list still drops my framerate down to the 20s.