Guild Wars 2

I’d love for all classes to have equality in speed buffs, it sucks being a Mesmer and forced to use Focus for the speed buff. It’s not how I want to play, I know how useful focus is and how good it is but I don’t want to use it.

On the other hand I honestly wouldn’t mind them REMOVING the speed buff all together and make the world just that little bit bigger.

I’m not lagging. There is no lag. Can’t get past the snowflakes cause I get ported back EVERY BLOODY TIME!!! This is a bug. Not a lag issue.

I’ve been ported back after jumping on the first snowflake. I’ve even been ported back after switching platforms from Snowman to Gingerbread (might be a balance thing here though) this random porting back is getting out of hand and putting me off this bloody JP.

Thought I’d ask because I’d like to buy the Sancified finisher but was wondering if it’s only accessible by 1 character or all.

As a Mesmer I do feel like our skills kinda lack being ‘elite’ but they’re also very situational.

Moa Morph…. No, just no. I don’t really see the use or idea behind this skill.
Mass Invis is really only good in WvW if you’re in a small zerg.
TimeWarp is great in groups and dungeons but solo play it’s fairly useless and hard to get full use.

As a Sylvari I usually end up using the race elite ‘Take Root’, few seconds of invulnerability, turrets draw agro and they deal okay damage.

What a beautiful wor…kitten BEAR!!

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bAss ackwards.7205:

My necromancer using the Demon Masque, Human T3 Shoulders, and the rest as Acolyte armor.

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Perfect screenshot. Your character looks creepy with the swamp background.

The world of Gw2 is beautiful and even better when you find its hidden secrets.

I honestly dont mind that they added a glow effect to our armour but at the cost of detail? Thats not right. Looking over the culture armour they seem really bland and boring now that they’ve lost a lot of their finer details for the sake of a glow effect.

I’d much rather the old styled armour.

As we speak I’m doing a -repair on my game but still wish to post it. Trying to play my necromacer who’s in Lions Arch, I can play for 3 minutes before the game crashes. This has happened 4 times now.

I can play my other characters fine, none of them are in LA but my necro causes the game to crash.

No idea of the cause or if anyone else has had this problem but I just want it to be known.

Zen garden. My favorite spot hands down. Then other people come in and get naked with me… That didn’t sound right.

Nevermind, after looking at the Wiki it mentioned the Chantry of Secrets, which indeed doesn’t show on the World Map.

Yay 100%!

So I’m 99.99999% complete with world completion, missing 1 POI.

I’ve searched the world map and have 100% in all zones.
I’ve searched each WvW map and have 100% in all zones.

Is there something I’ve missed?!

Is there a POI that doesn’t show on the world map?

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Exosferatu.2961:

It’s sad that the most beautiful places in the game are hidden.

It’s ok if they are hidden, as long as they are reachable (legit that is).

Like this place:

Where is that and how do I get there!? That is beautiful.

I play a Mesmer and I agree that the skills for us is pretty simple. I mainly play PvE so this is where I base my opinions on.

Weapon skills are boring after a while, I’d like it if they added a few ‘extra’ skills to weapon slots so there’s some more diversity there.
Example: GS#1 is a laser that is more powerful the further away you are, or you could change that to be a melee attack that does extra damage on the third attack.

Utility skills mostly situation and are based on opinion but I hardly break from my 3 (feedback, nullbreak, decoy) . Signets aren’t useful. Mantra’s… Idk how I feel about them but I don’t feel positive using them. P.defender and P.disenchanter pretty much useless. Mimic, veil, arcane thievery, portal (besides beggars in JP), never once used.
Elite skills aren’t that elite, Timewarp only useful in groups.
Mesmers, the most interesting class by design (IMO) are pretty boring to play.

Now build diversity a struggle, in PvE anything goes, but Condition builds need a serious rethink.

Mesmer is by far my favourite class. I’ve given the other classes a try but I find them really boring (and typical MMO classes) to play. The only other class that I find interesting is the Elementalist but it requires a lot of attention and knowhow to make use of all 4 elements with your weapons to be of any use.

I’ve tried guardian, ranger and necro. But Mesmer is where my heart is.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

I sort of like the idea that the armour is really growing out of the Sylvari and that’s why the skin color / glow color is present there.

I really like the idea of this too because everything that revolves around the Sylvari is grown. From houses, people to weapons.

I main a Sylvari and I too find this annoying, I have a light blue skin but all my armour is dark blue/purple and it really throws off the look I want.
Even though I like the lore of this armour (growing off the Sylvari), I would like the colour of the skin to be reduced on the armour so we can achieve the looks that Sylvari users strive for.

Hmmm Imma say 9/10

I love that you’ve used acolyte pants for the outfit and the black/white theme works really well. I don’t really like the mask so that’s only a -1. I also think the sword suits the outfit really well too.

And here’s my mesmer.

Yeah good luck with that achievement. I think it should reset daily or after some time because I’ve lost roughly 5 chests that randomly opened without me claiming them. If any more glitch on me then I won’t be able to get the achievements.

So I know that phantasms have a weird effect when it comes to armour/weapons that have an aura, such as flame legion gauntlets and the new Zenith weapon skins, which cause the effects to be a aura of cubes but recently they’ve been summoning faces.

1) Able to wear character costumes OVER regular gear at all times instead of only out of combat.
2) Class upgrades and diversity. Traits are nice but it would be nicer to go from elementalist to Avatar or something like that, but I do understand that might bring back the Trinity which I don’t want for GW2.
3) Group finder, Dungeons and Dragons Online style. Group with people that you can inspect, question and talk strategies before hand. Not Rift style where you just group with randoms. I know that there’s a website but a real in-game system would be nice.
4) Customization UI
5) More RP ability. Emotes.
6) Housing and Guild Halls.

I remember seeing a few posts about this but it came down to whether having this gave you an advantage over another player, which it doesn’t, and whether it makes any changes to the current code of the game, which it doesn’t, making it okay to use. Just remember that because this is a third-party feature it won’t be supported by ANet and you must take responsibility if SweetFX changes or corrupts your files (which it doesn’t).

lweiler.8635:

Very simple solution would be to not allow characters to loot major chests (ie dragon chests and meta event chests like shadow behemoth) on other servers. No exceptions at all.

Read my posts. That wouldn’t change a thing. That exploit does not exist.

Kaimick.5109:

I can fully say that this issue with the dragons has not been a factor till they changed the loot on the chest, which was since last patch. I know in you get a influx of to many it happens ( IE: Lost shores ) Although with the overwhelming influx of guest jumping servers to get the dragon chest multiple times is causing large problems on high population servers ( as I am on Blackgate ). Also note that I originally stated that making it so guest can only receive Dragon chest on their home server probably wont fix the problem it will deminis the issue by what I believe is 60% or more

It will lessen the problem by preventing guesting but if this were a guesting issue then wouldn’t there be empty servers? Because this is happening on every server.
Now lets take guesting out of the equation. Players from their own servers would still rush to the events like they are now, there would still be a huge amount of players there causing and experiencing the lag and being forced into overflow.

As a side note I’ve tested the guesting exploit. It doesn’t exist. I’ve tried it on 3 different events on 3 servers and you only get 1chest/event/character/day.

Poledo.3256:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Ioflux.4369:

What people dont realize is that “overflow” is not really a seperate server, but rather one of the other servers that are not currently full. Overflow is just a title that you got moved, not an actual “extra” server as many would like to believe.

This information is actually totally wrong. Overflow are separate from the worlds.

Thanks for clarifying Martin. Is what I was thinking of possible then? Or is it a programming nightmare?

I think it’ll be a programming nightmare. I always thought overflow servers were side servers for when the main servers can’t handle any more players, so you’ll have players from multiple servers in the one overflow. Now to sync with the main server doesn’t exist because there is no main server.

Ioflux.4369:

What people dont realize is that “overflow” is not really a seperate server, but rather one of the other servers that are not currently full. Overflow is just a title that you got moved, not an actual “extra” server as many would like to believe.

That’s interesting to hear and I doubt many players know that. Could you link a post from ANet confirming that?

Teenwolf.9174:

I can not do ANY of these events on my own server. Why should people be able to guest here and do them if I can’t on my own server? I DO like the new event rewards and the fact that you can only do once per day per toon, however SOMETHING needs to be done about this guesting BS.

Seeing that you recently posted about not having people guest on high populated servers I’m guessing you’re on a high populated server… Or didn’t you notice that EVERY server is either high or very high in population.
Have you thought that maybe it’s not guesting that’s the problem but the mass influx of players from all over your server have gathered to one area causing huge lag and constant overflows?
These things have been happening WAY before guesting was enabled, remember Halloween? Lost Shores? FotM when that was released? All these lag and overflow problems are the results of a lot of players in 1 area, plain and simple.

Just throwing this thought out there… But if this is happening on all servers could the culprit actually be the max influx of players from the server in one area and not guesting??

I’m on Jade Quarry, and we just had a bunch of people outraged at the fact that we tried to show up for Shatterer and we were thrown in Overflow, before Guesting was enabled this never happened.

Was this before the latest patch with the loot changes or honestly when guesting was enabled?
I just think that this whole blame on guesting is total bull. These things have always been happening on every server whenever a huge influx of players try to rush to one area. Remember Halloween? Lost Shores? FotM when that was released? Pretty sure all the problems there wasn’t caused from Guesting.
OP I do agree on your suggestions but I don’t think that it’ll solve the problems.

I can pretty much say that this doesn’t happen. I have tested this on 3 different events on 3 servers. 1 chest/character/day. No exploit.
Also, I very highly doubt that guesting is the problem. The problem is the majority of players on your server have rushed to one area. This causes lag all the time. Remember Halloween? Lost Shores? FotM?

I’ve tried almost all classes and the only one that kept me entertained longest was the Elementalist.. even though I only got to level 22. Elementalist seems to be the best way to go after a Mesmer because you’re constantly changing between elements (depending on how you play) and spamming skills. Also you’ll move faster.

With the latest patch mobs no longer treat you as a new enemy when you enter stealth so it seems that it’s working as intended. I do find that mobs attack me more then my clones but usually a well placed stun or stealth will cause them to change targets.
As Esplen posted, try spawning as many clones as you can as I’ve noticed that mobs tend to go for whoever is dealing the most DPS or closest. I recently solo’d a champion to test the new stealth and whilst it does shake off any agro you have, unless you have a phantasm out to deal some damage the mob will still most likely target you once you unstealth.

I don’t know if you can do that. If there’s no post about that in the support section the ability might not exist. Our email is basically our username and I don’t know any website or game that allows the changing of a username.
Try posting in Players Helping Players or Account Issues, someone might have an idea there. Otherwise try emailing ANet to see what they can do. They might just send their emails to your new address but I doubt they’d be able to change the email (username) linked to your account.

Kasama.8941:

Focus has the best skins in the game :/

http://dulfy.net/2013/02/06/gw2-focus-skins-gallery/

Those are some sexy focuses. I didn’t even know half of those existed.

First, please note that the server population shows how many players call that server home, not the current population of the server online.
Since the new dailies and the loot changes to bosses I have seen more and more players in low level areas (1-25). They’re usually zerging events or waiting at the world boss area to spawn.

I think its good that you clarified what the change to Portal was.
Thanks Jon

0% People keep complaining about MF gear and how it doesn’t benefit the player or party. MF is basically another RNG lottery but it does give you better chances… If chances were good in the first place. I honestly don’t know how MF works but a lot of people that do know post that the con’s outweigh the pro’s.

Aegis.9724:

Also, YOU ‘RE NO ONE TO CRITICIZE WHY AND HOW MUCH TIME PEOPLE SPEND PLAYING. IT’S NOT YOU OWN DAM BUSINESS.

Yes because sitting on your kitten for 2/3 of your life has had no scientific evidence to show how much damage it does to your body or that more and more people are obese because of the lack of physical exercise.
~Point aside.

It’s quite hard to find a balance to cater for hardcore and casual but GW2 has been quite good in that respect, the players that finished everything and wanted more content got Lost Shores; wanted more dungeons and vertical progression, Anet gave them the option of FotM.

GW2 didn’t have any huge grinds or time drainers besides getting a legendary because it didn’t need them, it didn’t need to drain hours from a players playtime to make money off a subscription that didn’t exist. It didn’t make the player to wait 5 hours to craft 100 mats (TY for your fast bulk crafing ANet!) or the endless back and forth between picking up a quest and handing this in (IMO best part of GW2) or even level up. Because Gw2 was B2P and not P2P it didn’t really need to keep players around for long periods at a time.

And for people that keep mentioning players leaving, this is usually during long periods of time when there has been no new content released or non-event times, then there’s a huge influx of players when there is new content or an event (Remember the lag during Halloween? Lost Shores? FotM? Yep even FotM but that’s only because there was a HUGE influx of players forced into an already overpopulated area).
There’s nothing stopping old players from coming back but they’d rather not come back till there’s more to do.

On a side note I don’t know how players can demand a expansion pack this soon in the games lifespan too, most expansions don’t come till roughly 1-2 years from release.
WoW released in November 2004, Burning Crusade: January 2007.
RIFT released in March 2011, Storm Legion: November 2012.
DDO (p2p): released in Feburary 2006, DDO (f2p): June 2009, Menace of the Underdark: June 2012.

Whilst a mod for this does exist I don’t think it is what GW2 needs. I’ve tried this mod and I don’t agree that it adds to the game. Whilst it’s a nice experience IMO it doesn’t add to the game.

What I would rather see is a ‘Mouse-look’ option, optional of course, so I don’t have to hold down the right mouse button. It does make combat much easier and you wont have the sudden target changes which appears to be happening more often now.
Only downside to either of these options is using an AoE as their placement would be where you’re currently looking, which might not be the most ideal place or where you want them to be.

From what I’ve previously read you can transmute legendaries, keep the skin but change the stats, it just makes the new item ‘transmuted’ and no longer ‘legendary’.
Congratz on getting Incinerator, I’m sorta sick of seeing everyone go for Twilight -.-"

Such a positive thread I love it.

The only negative thing I want to say is to fix the class/trait bugs before adding more content on top of everything.

I have continously gone back into Tyria and explore the world. Now near 400hrs playtime and I still haven’t gotten finished the main story quest, or done 100% map completion, or done all the dungeons, heck I’ve only done 2 :P. This game has kept me compelled to keep going and exploring/trying new things. I won’t ever leave my Mesmer, he’s me, and I’ve become very attached that playing an alt feels wrong.

The world is beautiful, visually stunning, events always happening, with so many events and NPC interaction it does help makes the world feel ‘alive’. I just wish I had IRL friends that played this game with me because it does get lonely in the big bad world.

I think that a simple status of how many players are currently online would be very helpful, the higher populated servers would fill up much faster but the low ones will be empty. Only problem with this is WvW, uneven populated matches are no fun.

on a side note: Dungeon queues would be better if they had a group finder for them (Take a look at Dungeons and Dragons Online. Best grouping system I’ve ever seen).

Zogyark.4597:

yeah that it really hyped me up in the betas too bad it changed, it had a really nice intro to the game. Anyway I wish I could also change the background music to for example like that nice piano theme instead.

You can. I have because the music doesn’t do it for me atm.

Documents>Guild Wars2>Music place a playlist file (.wpl) here and name it MainMenu

You can change most of the music such as Cities, adventuring and battles.

Read this if you wanna know more. Guild Wars 2 Custom Music

Heres me.

I think I was actually around level 17 when I took the first screenshot. Boy has my character and playstyle changed since then.

I’m used to seeing my weapons float around my body but this is just ridiculous now. The placement for the sword/pistol on my Mesmer has changed and now clips into my arms. This hasn’t happened before and I have a few screenshots that show that this came with the latest patch.

Screen 1 is the old placement.

Screen 2 is the new.

The change is not from the model animation or from camera angle because you can clearly see that both weapons now clip into my arms whereas early they sat comfortably on my waist.

My theory as to why kitten costs to much in the BLTP is because you can exchange gold for gems and vice versa. Whilst the thought is nice I honestly don’t think that should’ve happened. Anyone that can play the TP well pretty much never has to pay 1c to buy something off the TP.

With that said I do agree that world transfer should not cost $22-$25. I’d be much happier with $10, which seems like a reasonable price.

I love Gw2 but I’m not going to waste my money on such an expensive transaction.

Edit: ^ Rising Dusk you make a very valid point.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Here’s the easy answer: Start at level 1. Open all your weapon skills. See what you like. Go from there.

Later when you have some levels and skill points under your belt, come back here to bolt things down.

I agree. As with any class it’s best to unlock all the weapon skills first and see what style suits you. Then learn about the skills and then the traits.
I think I was a sceptor/random offhand wep till about level 20 so I got used to the clone/shatter mechanic.

I’m a sylvari Mesmer and with roughly 300hrs gameplay on it I can say I’m happy with the choice. 95% of the time I use the sylvari elite Get Rooted (or along the lines of that) because it helps me avoid some of the most devastating attacks when I have no dodge.
With that being said, sword#2 & F4 & get rooted = roughly 8 seconds of invulnerability.

Visual wise I love the Sylvari Mesmer. Both features have a mystical element about them and the sylvari glow is just so pretty.

I’ve also heard great things about the Azura and how the Mesmer was made for that race. I have no experience in this but it’s what a lot of people are saying.

So after seeing a post like this Happy Australia Day it made me wonder why don’t we have a forum to post none-GW2 related stuff?

This thread has already been warned that the post will be closed because the majority of posts aren’t GW2 related, even though the OP is. But I’m sure a lot of Aussies just want to post a ‘Happy Australia Day’ or show their Aussie spirit rather then post about the game.

Could we have a None-GW2 section in the forums?

Happy Australia day fellow GW2 Aussies!! Hopefully I’ll have 100% Map Completion… Once we take a tower in WvW.

Rather then having a message in the middle of the screen I’d rather they had a confirmation box saying " ‘mesmer-name’ has used illusion of life. Do you wish to temp rez for 15 seconds?" Then they click ‘Yes’ and revive for the duration. That way they know whats happened, they know it’s only for 15 secs (unless they kill someone) and wont be confused when they die when the timer runs out.

I understand your point OP I was actually considering making the exact same post. The problem with WvW in map completion is the fact that it doesn’t rely on exploration. It relies on being at the right place at the right time. I’m currently at 97% on 2 WvW maps because 1 Vista is at a enemy fort on the other side of the map.

Best tip with WvW map completion is to keep checking the maps whilst you level up a character or explore the world. It’s a real pain in the butt and shouldn’t be apart of the World Map Completion.