Guild Wars 2

With the introduction of dps meter’s it is apparent that player versatility is narrowing, i.e. if you see a thief running dual pistols you immediately know they bring little to the table whatever game mode they are playing (pve/wvw/pvp).

I personally like dps meters though the gap between meta and “play the way you like” is a substantially large gap (not because people run nomads vs berserkers) it is simply that some weapon sets perform subpar.

In a perfect world I would like to see that, head to head each weapon set and weapon combination is viable either due to direct damage output, additional utility, cc, etc…

Sweet thanks for that.

I have a Healing +7 Agony Infusion, but I don’t want healing. Can I convert it back to something, sell it or do I need to destroy it?

First of all please, please, please promise me some armor skins where;

1. Pants are not; dresses, skirts or have bum/front covers
2. Chest armor that is not; a dress, a trench coat or has a weird butt/front flap

…back on track…

To everyone who is saying the expansion is too expensive, I have some scientific truths to share; link is here: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9516.html

basically sexy people are rich

Be sexy, support the game you love to play.
BUY THE ULTIMATE PACKAGE AND PROVE YOUR SEXINESS!!!

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First of all please, please, please promise me some armor skins where;

1. Pants are not; dresses, skirts or have bum/front covers
2. Chest armor that is not; a dress, a trench coat or has a weird butt/front flap

…back on track…

To everyone who is saying the expansion is too expensive, I have some scientific truths to share; link is here: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9516.html

basically sexy people are rich

Be sexy, support the game you love to plan.
BUY THE ULTIMATE PACKAGE AND PROVE YOUR SEXINESS!!!

P.s. Upvoting this post will provide you with an exclusive in game reward of ____, that’s right nothing.

@ choovanski.5462…
I was rank around 500 on the leader board when I play pvp regularly, so I would say I know how to play.

@Archon.6480
Yeah generally only play ranked, and I play solo. I did queue with a team for a bit, which was fun though I like to be a loner so I went back to queueing solo.

@style.6173
Yep, pretty sure it’s matchmaking.

I understand there is only so much anet can do it’s just frustrating at times.

Still I must enjoy it, otherwise I would have stopped playing.

I just want to rant while I wait to lose my next pvp game… maybe I’ll try for 100-500 this time. There should be laws against this many consecutive losses in ranked.

I think you are missing the significant limitations that are at play here.

If anet marketed pvp with “Play pvp we will put you in games where you are expected to lose but we will not penalize you for losing because the matchup was never fair.” People would say “Hummm this doesn’t sound too good.”

Yet this is exactly what is happening right now.
http://dulfy.net/2014/11/20/gw2-finding-the-pefect-pvp-match

I think the core issue is there are significant limitations and anet are trying their best to figure out a way to make pvp fun.

Hey Guys

I’ve got a VG248QE screen the rest of my rig is; AMD FX-8150 Eight Core, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series

I want to play in 3D, I know the client only supports Nvidia.

I’ve tired to run with tridef and a few other 3rd party programs but I can’t get anywhere.

Is there solid work around?

The way I look at it;

1. There are 21 different armour statistic types
2. There are 71 different runes to augment that armour

There should be an effective/useful/wanted “meta” (though not needed) that corresponds to each armour statistic type and rune augmentation.

If game design does not allow those different “meta” to evolve, then create the ability for those different “meta” to evolve or remove the armour type (just like magic find armour was removed).

I like the title tracks , though it’s still more cost effective to farm pve than it is to farm pvp.

What’s the chance of boosting pvp reward progression making pvp just as profitable as pve?

I would like to know, what is happening.

Firstly here are my base theories

1. If the point difference of a ranked match s greater than 100 it is either a bad match up or a team made a bad decision

2. If the point difference is greater than 200 then most of the time it is a match up issue not player skill, I say this because for me a score of 300-500 would be expected when it’s 4v5.

Having played 1,340 ranked games and winning 630, I’m not the best player but I can hold my own in most situations and have enough experience to look back at a game and say, “that’s where it was lost”.

My last 15 games have been very frustrating, below are the scores;

Them My Team
500 – 204
500 – 191
500 – 264
503 – 77
500 – 154
501 – 304
458 – 500
401 – 501
504 – 494
500 – 231
500 – 300
423 – 500
500 – 314
504 – 220
451 – 501

So what do you think, am I bearing a run of bad matchups or is this a l2p issue?

Anyone else finding that in the last two days most matches are blow outs either as a win or as a loss and its the rare match that is within 50 points?

I feel your pain as well. Today for me it’s been horrid.

Had one muppet running into a wall for a good 40 seconds.

I would say most of the blow out/stupid match are due to players not the match making system though.

If you take the time after each match to record what happened you might find like I did, that it’s just bad luck not the game itself.

I’m pretty sure there is a bug/corrupt file in my download of GW2.

I have a AMD FX-8150 Eight Core, 8.0GB Ram, AMD Radeon HD 7900, with 30gig free space on my SSD drive.

It started about 3 weeks ago where my frames per second dropped to average around 7fps.

What I have done; formatted my drive and re-installed (I run win 7, 64bit), unparked CPU’s, changed power options to 100%, installed a new fan, dusted down the computer, updated all drivers, I’ve even tried running the game through Razer Cortex to ensure I have nothing in the background.

When I run GW2 I can’t even browse on the internet or type a word document. The moment I exit GW2 my computer comes back to normal speed, which is pretty fast.

I’m happy to download a diagnostic program, run whatever tests you want… I just want a decent frame rate so I can play the game.

Cheers for your help

I did all this, even spent the last few days searching for other methods; unparked cores, change power options, deleted the local app data the game saves, blah blah blah.

So what happened? The computer flew until I turned on GW2 then even browsing went to custard, turn off GW2 and everything fires back up to warp speed…

Though ok, maybe I’m just plain stupid and can’t get this right so I’ll play the game through razor, where I average 25 FPS.

Game is playable but seriously for a setup like this I should have everything on max and have 60 FPS.

I’m running a AMD FX8150 Eight-Core Processor, 8.0GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7900 series and have cable internet.

I used to run the game really well, everything on max and still had good FPS now it’s useless and I can’t event play the game, any idea’s why?

I thought I might have a virus so I formatted my computer and re-installed everything from scratch. I’ve just upgraded all my drivers to the latest versions????

Computer runs find on everything else but GW2?

I loved the achievements good mix of different skills and different ways of doing things, throwing the stealth aspect in there kept things fresh.

My favorite was Wicked Rodeo, I failed it 6 times (ok maybe more than 6) but I finally got it.

What I especially enjoyed about Wicked Rodeo is how I could just go straight back and give it another shot right at the bit I failed.

Perfect execution of a real challenge.

Thanks for the fun times.

This worked thanks!

I’ve completed the story once
Repeated to finished “Aggressive Infiltration” achievement

There is no Challenge Mote spawning to activate Unforgiving Infiltration

I believe win/loss percentage should reflect a standard bell curve and the outliers should then going into a separate tier.

This makes for more even matched games, which to most people are more entertaining/fun.

Just like sports teams, you have different grades. No one wants to watch an A grade team demolish a C grade team, which is why you don’t see it on primetime TV. It’s not entertaining.

The current system of players having massive win/loss streaks means it’s not entertaining/fun for either the winners or losers.

So what’s your longest losing streak and did you break anything in frustration?

I think it’s a great idea… to stop people using it as free storage can be really simple. After 3 months if you want to keep an item listed you pay an addition 5% of the original listing fee. If you don’t pay the additional fee then you get the items back and no refund on the listing fee.

The new system of being put against a team where you’re almost guaranteed to lose is…frustrating

I want each match I play to have as close as possible to a 50/50 chance of win or lose.

Why would I enjoy a match where I’m guaranteed to lose?

Personally what matters more to me is a fair game and having a 50/50 chance of winning/losing.

Would it be fair to say the majority of the player base are the same and are not that interested in their position on the leaderboard?

Which would then mean that have a 70% chance to win or lose a game isn’t what people are after?

I tend to side with the OP, though only cause I think it offers a valid solution.

To me the reason for leagues/rank brackets is that being put against people who are close to your level. I think the leagues would need to be fluid say changing weekly or something like that.

The core issue I see is that matches are not always close, nothing beats the feeling of winning by 5 points… and when you lose by 5 points you can genuinely say gg

I wouldn’t suggest having different rewards, just like the leader board there is no reward for being #1 other than saying I’m the best.

I just played a solo match against a team… by rights these guys were worse than the average solo player. Though they worked well as a team and owned us.
I want to finish off some of the PvP achievements but with my current win loss ratio going from 48% down to 22% (well not 22% yet but that’s roughly my new win/loss ratio) with the new patch… I don’t see much hope.

The statement was made on the upcoming changes “Players are rewarded for playing well, even if they lose the game.”
My question is what constitutes playing well?

I was playing today with a necro who kept 2 enemy players occupied almost the entire match, effectively making the game 3 v 4 for the rest of us.

We won the match because of the necro, yet the necro had the lowest score of everyone at the end of the match. Will players like the necro be rewarded highly under the new system?

GW2 made a promise to not follow the vertical progression treadmill, this is how they keep that promise…. Legendary is for horizontal progression.

anyone got this yet? Is the weapon you get soul or account bound or can you sell it on the trading post.

Found a bug or at least something that probably shouldn’t have happened

volunteers blessing – crapped a bunch of us, we were doing Karka queen pre events and got a message to flick server and well a few of us did and we landed on a server where the queen was already dead.

Lots of rude words were said even though it was kinda funny that we all got trolled… not sure how hard it would be to not have this pop when world events are active on a map, one of the guys noticed that the nodes were refreshed so there was an upside for him not sure if that is intended though.

BEST DAY EVER!!!

For so long I wanted medium armor that was not a dress, MASSIVE TICK!

Collections etc. whoot vertical progression, this is what Anet promised. A game where your choice on how you play does not leave you behind… vertical progression…. Now if only the next patch brings back the historical achievements so I can go back and tick them all off as well :P

The rest of the pack… did I say I don’t have to wear a dress anymore!?!?!

Heya guys I’ve got some ideas to help improve to solo arena PvP

1. The time taken to form a 5 person group can be up to 10 minutes (granted I play off peak)
Options to fix this
a) Have 3 v 3 teams
b) Give better rewards i.e. faster track progression so that more people do it

2. Getting duds on the team, which can be legitimate like people testing builds, but it can just be people who plain suck.
Options to fix this
a) Match up people according to their percentage of win stats i.e. 0%-10% wins is one band etc. How it would work if you have a 80% win rate on a thief and a 15% win rate on a ranger and you queue with a ranger you go into the 10%-20% queue. If you play with your thief then you go into the 80%-90% queue.

I agree with the OP.

I would like GW2 to evolve to be more unique and I think the living story is a fantastic vehicle to try new things.

I personally don’t care what route anet take on that uniqueness and I don’t care if they fail hard. If anet decide to use the living story to experiment it’s only a small part of the game that sucks and only for a short period of time.

There are heaps of really good suggestions on how to do this all over the forums and I’m sure the developers have their own ideas as well.

For me the take home is that GW2 fan base love this game and want to see it get better… as a developer that must feel pretty dam good.

Ok so what’s everyone think about having tattoos instead of armour?

Or the ability to hide your chest armour and show them off, if your character has them?

I know this kinda goes against what a DoT is about, but why not reduce the up time and increase the damage. You wont solve the sacks maxing out in a zerg but if balanced right it would mean having 3 condi builds in a party is viable.

This skills often rolls too far away from the target and applies the poison to the air, for a weapon that is very sticky, this skill is not so sticky.

Also another bug my ranger can’t duel wield swords… I’ll be happy if you fix sword skill #3 first though

Hey Guys

So I have
1. Solaria, Circle of the Sun… all stats are +46
2. Solaria, Circle of the Sun (Infused)… all stats are +44

The infused version has lower stats.

I thought I read about this in the feedback on the April patch but searching the forms nothing came up so sorry if it’s already on the “to fix” list.

The core issue i hear is not the number of people, but standing still pressing 1 = win.

Events need to require skill again… bosses send out ground targeting aoe and also blockable/dodgeable aoe but boss aoe works like Piercing Arrows so the whole zerg feels it, immobilize people for 30 seconds who dps through the wrong phase (kinda like Lyssa only more punishing), put reflect back on bosses so people can spike themselves to death, have bosses spread mass aoe conditions, rase the condition cap on bosses and/or make player applied conditions last 1/12 of what they normally do but cause 12 times more damage (so conditions are still viable but a zerg can use their condition builds), remove the blinding ball of light so that you can see boss mechanics, boss range is 0-2000 on all attacks so range or melee you gotta watch, blah blah blah…

It’s not the zerg that’s the problem it is making all fights a dps check instead of a dodge, heal, armor, vitality, timing and ultimately skill check.

For those who are still struggling with this… basically the idea is have a boss fight where the boss self destructs (aka dies) regardless of the dps, the reward is for those who stay alive inside a set area. This extreme would be boring I think but adding such elements into a boss fight to make them less zergy and more interesting.

Maybe there could be 2 world bosses at the same time, one minor boss and one major boss (it would also help reduce the zerg size). This way temples and all the other world events could be easily added into the mix and major events would spawn a lot more frequently.

I know for myself I have played since the patch and since I generally play the same times, I get the same bosses.

I understand “prime time” but if all bosses popped more frequently and 2 events occurred at the same time we might have a rotating schedule that repeats itself say 3hrs.

After people’s thoughts on the topic…

First up what I love about the new bosses on timers;
1. I know when they are up
2. I now get a chance to participate in the warm up events
3. There are heaps of people so it feels like a “world” event
4. I can see anet are already working to counter the zerg fest, and can’t wait till that gets fixed properly

Things I think could be improved
1. The rotation seems to favour the minor events which pop all the time
2. Temples now with the mega server they always look closed but when you port in they are always open, either fix that or maybe put temples in the world boss rotation??

I personally would like to see more diversity of builds in the game but to do that I think things need to be a lot more equal.

For example if you give up 10% of attribute ‘a’ then you gain 10% of attribute ‘b’
Let’s assume
1. Player one – gave up 10% health for an increase of 10% damage
2. Player two – gave up 10% damage for an increase of 10% health

For build diversity to work, if both players were put head to head they would both die at the same time.

The issue we have in GW2 now is that the loss in damage under the current system is not compensated equally in a practical normal game play application by the gaining of other attributes; therefore you will not get the build diversity you want.

To add to this nothing should be truly equal otherwise there is no evolution (see perfect imbalance).

It’s probably been said before but oh well…

There are a number of things I like about the living story;

1. The new characters (granted the back story/introduction isn’t always there but it’s part of the mystery it makes Tyria feel bigger than all the characters we already know)

2. The length, I like how in 5-6 days you can realistically complete the achievement even if you only have a little bit of time to play, it means time poor players are not spending all their time on the story

3. I like the multiple pathways to complete the overall achievement, I personally don’t like seek out/go find or repetitive quests (others probably do) but I can still complete the achievements by doing the things I enjoy… I don’t have to do everything and I still get a sense of completion
There are more things I like but 3 will do

Things I think could be improved

1. Time gated events become part of your story and use phasing technology to affect the world. For example if you complete your living story about the jungle worms then when you enter the areas of the zone where they spawn on your map they spawn… if you haven’t completed that part of your personal story then you don’t see them spawn. (it not new technology and it used quite a bit to make your decisions/story feel like it has a true impact on the world in other games.

2. Make the living story leave permanent changes, use it to rebalance zones, fill in empty areas, re-align events so they flow rather than be just timer driven, add in zone meta events, etc. Make the world more alive. I’m ready for the next level in dynamic events were events have towns being created and destroyed (not waypoints, that’s just god awful), events flow across and around a map leading to a final boss fight.

Overall I want to see the living story leaving behind a changed more dynamic, more interactive, more full Tyria.

I like the idea of the new world bosses and I have some suggestions to improve them.

Bosses/Champs use a lot of ground targeting aoe, why can’t they target 60% of players individually (put a red circle at the players feet so they know they are targeted).

Change some of the dynamics from just doge to using line of sight – like a homing missile. Players have say 5 seconds to break line of sight, which could be used to move players to desired areas.

I would like to see lower scaling options, if there are only 25 people in a map why can’t they have a fair chance of taking down the boss as well.

Why do we have random 1st fractal… everyone just rolls swamp anyway…???

I’m interested to know what the average play time is.

Mine is (drum roll please) 3.5hrs per day…. clearly I need to get out more!!

To find you played time;
1. Type “/age”
2. Divide total hours played by number of days

Example:
Across all characters, you have played for 1,810 hours 29 minutes over the last 508 days

1810 / 508 = 3.56… hours

I’ve just managed to get gw2 playing in 3D and it’s amazing. My wife who hates computer games even watched me play for 30 minutes, epic feat.

Though I have a suggestion to make the immersion better, have an option to remove all combat text. I would love to just sit back and watch my little 3D hero kick some butt and not see numbers flashing up all the time.

btw great job on the 3D, really takes the game to a whole new level and the vista’s are really vista’s now!!!

Heya Lu

Armors
Agree 100% with what you are saying, we need more variety in choice (I still think people who like fishnets need to be catered for as well). The cultural armor issue aside (which anet will get flamed over), reskinning an existing armor is in my opinion not in the top 10 the best ways to expand armor variety in the game.

Living Story
I didn’t think it was ever a story… if it was I could never follow it. I thought it was just the dev’s filling in/fleshing out areas of the game. So I’m not disappointed with it. I would like to see the filling in/fleshing out expand a bit more and shift away from getting people to one zone/area for 2 weeks, later leaving the zone dead and hard for new players who are trying to solo/level in that area 3 months later… there is a whole world out there make it all re-interesting.

Also stuck.. in the cannon room dead. I started the instance and there is no waypoint, so unlike everyone else I cannot log out and back in… I’ve been dead for 20 minutes while the rest of my party finish the story. Yes I’m a nice guy. Pls put a waypoint in for res.

I find the variety of things to do after you have setup your character/s falls away, though I believe there is enough in the game to easily remedy this.

Allow previously onetime events to be repeated (say once per month or something like that), the reason for time gating is to stop people chain repeating the same location. The goal is to give players a reason to re-explore all areas of Tryia expanding the “end game options”.

Things that could be repeated are; Hearts, Skill Points, Vista’s and Personal Story.
The rewards for subsequent completion would need to be enough to encourage people to re-explore Tyria especially in the lower level areas.

One of the other things I really enjoyed about GW1 was hard mode and timers on missions/dungeons, which could also be used to add more “end game” variety.

For hard mode, instead of buffing monsters why not further down scale the player another few levels. In the open world this could create problems but if the “hit to tag” was significantly increased only for hard mode players, 3rd party healing/buffs were also reduced when in hard mode and other such minor tweaks the hard mode player not will not overly benefit from those playing normal mode in the open world. For instanced areas; like re-doing your personal story and dungeons hard mode is a lot easier because everyone in the party enters at the reduced level.

Timers were also great thing in GW1, not only does it allow time poor players to complete something without fear of it dragging out it, the added benefit is creating variety to existing content. For example put a speed timer on dungeons. If you finish it under the timer you get an additional speed clear reward, if you take too long then your party wipes or they could still complete but just get the normal reward.

This can also open up a whole new range of achievements essentially doubling the size of the game.