Guild Wars 2

I’m glad I won the bet with my guildies… though only half a bit. The bet only involved not being able to play the LS3, not the whole game. Sigh.

Thanks for making me spit OJ all over my desk.

Jski.6180:

Phy.2913:

Methal.9045:

Phy.2913:

Are you trying to say the new precurser mastery’s will be botted?

If you can do it, a bot can do it.

Those precursers are account bond. The effort it would take to program a bot to do the activities required to complete the mastery would far exceed the effort to do it manually. This is literally a none issue.

This and all that needs to be said about boting and precursers lol.

I think you guys really are missing the point in this whole thread though. Let’s assume they actually make a bot that is capable of farming precursors. If that is possible, that means they can create bots to farm just about anything and get away with it. That guy on the stream alone has 4 characters there getting loot from fractals, which do give out some better than average loot.
You keep saying “lol HoT precursors will be account bound” but what about every single other item? What about the materials? It might help you in the beginning to craft some stuff if the prices are lower, but later on when you want to make some money, everything is devalued.
I actually hope someone from ANet talks to the people that have said to have seen some bots/forums where botters gather and improves on anything anti-bot related.

Adding Sinister stats to backpieces would be awesome too. So far none that I’ve seen have that option.

I think this whole thread can be resumed by saying what an RPG is: You make choices that affect your gameplay and turn it into a path. You have several other options, but that’s the one you chose. You want those other options? Roll a new character.
It’s been like that forever, you accept these options in every other RPG (or is this the only one you’ve ever played?) so why not this one?
Are you really kittening about having to choose an option in a game? Did you feel neglected by not playing the Durmand Priory story along with the Order of Whispers? Because that’s been there for 3 years now and it doesn’t seem like you complained… yet you had to roll another character to experience that part of the story.

TL;DR: RPGs are made of choices, choose wisely. Then roll another character and go crazy. Deal with it.

I would’ve done what I’m doing right now: Not bothering with it. Sure, doing it once, just to see what it is. No rewards for running around a map for 30m? Naaa. I’d do something constructive with my guild, help someone out, log out and read a book, anything but that really. Since I saw the rewards being as low as they are… I gave up on that event. It’s the worse event they’ve released by far, they’ve admitted they failed with this one, time to move on.

Novamatrix.2569:

PyrateSilly.4710:

ANet has already said that Halloween will be in game this year.

Got a link to them saying that? Ive never seen anything official from them.

http://massivelyop.com/2015/08/31/pax-prime-2015-guild-wars-2-is-never-getting-a-raid-finder/
Here’s your link~ It says Halloween events will continue, doesn’t specifically mention this year. But we can hope!

Maybe a better suggestion for the inaccessible areas would to have them greyed out (like when you’re doing a personal instance, that area of the map is greyed out with lines over it). Maybe add a toggle on/off for those people that get annoyed by simple things, like having a map greyed out.

Thing is, some of us are in WvW guilds. Where superior siege is actually used, a lot. It’s not really about the profit (though sometimes it is), it’s about a QoL point. I did like the idea of those sieges being at the vendor, but what about the rest of the items that are craftable at the Mystic Forge?
We’ve found a second solution for the siege, hopefully more come out for the rest of the content!

Hey everyone!
So, I’ve been using the mystic forge a lot (specially during events where you can make event specific stuff from it, like christmas and all that, even for siege in WvW) and I don’t know about you, but the amount of clicks is starting to get to me.
Besides having wrist pain due to work, the sheer amount of time it takes to get anything done is ridiculous.
Now I know ANet have already said that the Mystic Forge can’t have recipes due to some of them having unpredictable results (such as 4 different weapons giving you a chance of just about any weapon at all), but what about the fixed result ones? The ones such as christmas presents, WvW Siege, some weapons that are crafted there too! Can we not get, along with the resulting fixed item, a recipe we can unlock for one of the crafting professions so we can make them faster without all that clicking?
For example, I was making just now 250 superior siege… it’s rather painful, both figuratively and literally.
Hope to hear some good ideas/points from everyone on how this could be improved!

^ what he said. So many topics on this, so little (lol, nope. Non-existent is more like it) answers.

I had made another topic about this earlier (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/New-Armors-not-Outfits-in-HoT/first#post5454586), it seemed kind of dead so I thought not many people supported my opinion. Guess I was wrong!

IndigoSundown.5419:

The Cara/Lumi sets debuted with SW, the last new PvE content we’ve seen. The issue is that tying armor to content requires there be new content. There has not been new content.

But we’ve had content. Loads of it, throughout these 3 years. Just no new armors. A truckload of weapon skins and backpieces. The joke was what backpiece would this living story episode now bring.
Glory Armor – PvP only
Carapace and blue carapace – They’re technically the same, the only change is that horrible blue dye.
Think there were a few pieces of an armor in the gemstore at some point?

Some armor even got removed (tribal armor), so yeah, this system is lacking.

Update: Apparently we’re not the only ones unsatisfied by this lack of armors in HoT, have a read of the comments on Dulfy’s website: http://dulfy.net/2015/08/29/gw2-two-new-armor-sets-in-heart-of-thorns/

Some really good points going around in this discussion. I can only hope that at the very least all new living stories will bring us one set of new armor.

I was about to make a topic on this but looked up and I’m glad I’m not the only one worried about not having a Halloween in gw2 this year!
Hopefully we’ll get some answers soon!

I just wonder if we’ll have any “red” input on this thread though. Something at least close to an answer would be fine, not really a “you’ll have X amount of armors” but more of a “we’ll be/not be introducing a few more armor sets through karma vendors and the like in HoT” would be great.

As for the armors we’ve gotten since the release 3 years ago were:
Glorious Armor (PvP)
Carapace and its glowing version

Any more? Besides headgears and backpieces that is.

Exactly why I’m asking if they’ll be putting more armor sets in or not… because at the moment, it just seems way too little, more like a living story type of release (armor wise) than a full blown expansion 50€ expansion.

Thanks Gaebriel for that info!
That’s very nice to know, but again, those are the ones coming straight out with the expansion. I would, also, like to know if we’ll be getting a lot more armor sets than we did with the core game throughout its expansion or if they’ll be like the nearly yearly ones we get nowadays.

Zypher.7609:

It has already been stated armor sets will now be in game only, and outfits will be the only thing sold in gem store.

That didn’t really answer the question if we’d be getting a lot of new armor sets throughout HoT, or if we’ll get the ones at release date then one every year or so.

Will we be getting a lot of new Armor sets in HoT? And by that I mean the non-BLTP gems ones. We’ve gotten oh so very few “free” armor sets since release that weren’t gem bought and your direction at the moment seems to be to make an outfit out of anything new.
We like to mix armors, that’s what made the customization of our characters FUN.
Could we please get an answer on this? All this outfit nonsense is really breaking character customization…

The ones you get when you transformed boosters using the powders only last 20m… the other ones 1h. The new ones 2h. This is just ridiculous… so besides paying for powders, you still lose 40m of boost duration… or 1h40m boost duration unless the new ones have a new “powder version”.

So I finally found a use for my boosters! Shame they only last 20m instead of 2hours like the new ones…. really? 1h40m of difference between old and new? How about an upgrade for people with the old ones?

I’d just really love if the old boosters gave the same amount of time… but they give 20m instead of 2 HOURS… that’s ridiculous.

Hey hey!

I was just trying this trait line and after I died, the spawned hammer (Retribution trait line – Reflexive Summon (3rd tier)) kept doing aoe damage around me, is this meant to be like this? I thought most, if not all, summons died with the user?

Going to leave this here, since some more tips were given in this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Any-advice-for-someone-new-to-this-game/first#post4969192

Astralporing.1957:

serenke.4806:

Coldtart.4785:

The logic that defends these dailies is bizarre. ‘You can’t finish your daily without doing something you don’t like, but some of those things are easy so that makes it OK’.

The idea is to pick which dailies you do. You CAN finish your dailies without going into fractals, so the logic you mentioned is flawed.

Both WvW and SPvP players can easily do their dailies always without dipping into PvE. Why PvE players should be encouraged to move to PvP for their dailies? There’s a double standard here at play.

What if I only play PvP but none of the classes I play show up? “Easily” might not be the word you’re looking for there. ANet gave you plenty of options to finish your dailies, use them.

I got my Logitech G500 in 2011, still working fine. I did have to fix a double clicking issue, but there’s plenty of tutorials for that.
Like most people are saying in this thread: Either invest in a better mouse or if you already have, learn to be a bit more sensitive with your equipment.

My only advice to you would be… try things. No seriously, go and try things. Try to aim for level 30 and try your first dungeon. Do quests, explore, try PvP. Try custom arenas, unranked or ranked. Just try it.
Go to World vs World at least once, but try it during different days/times of the day (if you can, off course.). The night players are usually a lot different in attitude compared to the day players (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cnEyVp7AoM).
Go to Edge of the Mists for a more… wild WvW.
During all this trying out… see if you can find new players similar to yourself. Join them! Just find what you wish to do in this game, do it and have fun

My frames also went to hell… from stable 60 to 20~30, and that’s if I disable shadows, reflections and put shaders to the minimum.

Specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.80Ghz
16 GB 1333
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4GB
Plain old 1TB HDD that I just tested and has no problems whatsoever.

Don’t seem to be having problems on any other game either.

So one match I’m playing with people with about 1,000 achievement points that don’t seem to know much about pvp at all, the next match I’m meeting dragon ranks. Sure, rank can be grinded, yadda yadda, but it still means you’ll have way more experience than someone that’s barely started the game.
Did we get a reset that I missed or something?

Yep, bugged for me on Seafarer’s Rest too. :|

Same, we all seem to be left out, standing in queue forever. :|

Hmm, maybe a warning on recipes that could result in multiple outcomes would solve that one problem? You made a nice point though!
I still think it’s a good idea. Maybe if we post here all the cons of why this system wouldn’t work in this thread, we could find ways to “fix” them? I’m really hoping this idea could work!

Why not make it like the crafting professions?
What I mean with this is the system where you have the recipes you’ve discovered ready to be made, where you can make multiples of said recipes. Would really make upgrading/downgrading mats, crafting giftboxes, making items that you need multiple of, really easier, and even allow you to search for the recipes you’ve unlocked.
Is there something in this that would break the game? o_o
Also, this wouldn’t have job lvls like professions, just the list of items and the same discovery menu.

Discuss \o\

Dahkeus.8243:

Yea, I read what you said. It’s sad that you can’t get a better connection, but that doesn’t mean that the game should suddenly revolve around you. There are other people who have the potential to get a good connection and either don’t bother to make the effort and there are people that use disconnects to their advantage as well.

If you disconnect once in a blue moon, then the point loss is minimal, but if it happens regularly, then unfortunately, you just don’t meet the requirements for what this game needs to run as it should.

Meanwhile, when you DC, you lose some points for the match. The four other people on your team likely lose the entire match.

So please, take your head out of your own personal perspective for 2 seconds and realize that your bad connection hurts 4 other people more than it hurts yourself.

@ Chase: We’re not advocating for punishment for people with bad connections. We advocate for punishment to people that abuse their connection or neglect it at the expense of other players. In a perfect world, we could tell when a innocent dc happened and not attribute any punishment, but there’s no way to tell when that happens and when it’s just someone pulling the cord out of their modem because they’re raging.

So basically you keep saying I’m being selfish for asking Anet to try and improve their system, but you don’t even realize that advocating for things to stay as they are is incredibly bad for any player that does get disconnected?
This isn’t a thread for “omg Anet give me full points even if I only spent one minute in the match” this is one asking for an improvement on the reward system in case of a sudden dc, where you’re not really away for that much of a % in a match.
My connection is fine now, but now that I’ve been through that stressful situation, I see that there’s a lot of room for improvement on this system.
This isn’t a case of “the world revolves around me” it’s a case of a system that unfairly punishes a player for a very minor dc with a really heavy loss in points, whether his team won or not.
So instead of seeing this from your perspective, where the connections are 100% reliable and your pc never crashes, try looking at it from other peoples’ perspectives. The system as it is, is unfair. There is room for improvement, a lot of it, and there’s no denying it.

Dahkeus.8243:

Then blame your ISP, not ANet. Because if you think you should be able to get full points for DCing a game, then coming back, there’s suddenly incentive for people to do this as an exploit and there’s less incentive for people to get their connection issues resolved as best as they can.

So please, take your head out of your own personal perspective for 2 seconds and realize that your bad connection hurts 4 other people more than it hurts yourself.

Maybe you didn’t get the part where I had a sudden dc and came back straight away. I’ve only mentioned it on just about every single post I’ve made in this thread. Try reading before bashing.
Also, several other games seem to come up with solutions that don’t penalize the player for a minimal failure in connection where the player returns straight away, so maybe there’s room for improvement on Anets’ system?

uberkingkong.8041:

+1
Don’t play GW2 at your local library or at Starbucks.
This isn’t the 90s, we are 20 years past the 90s the dial up era. Present day, up to what? 50GB connections now? Crazyness.

I have two personal connections, at my house. And speed barely has nothing to do with the stability of the connection, although it will improve ping up to a point, where the rest is influenced on what the ISP has bought/hired in infrastructure on its network.
If you’re going to bash someone, at least try to understand what you’re talking about. As for the rest, read my reply to Dahkeus.

Dahkeus.8243:

Any way to fix this?

Sure, talk to your ISP and get your connection fixed so you don’t DC and leave the rest of us short-handed when you end up on our team.

Which one of them by the way? I’ve said I have access to, and use, two ISPs. There’s very little else I can do over here, usually switching to the secondary connection fixes my problems, but today was specially bad.
Besides, like I already said, they were dc’s of a very abrupt connection loss which was nearly instantly restored, allowing me to be back in the game 10~20s after I dc, and those are due to map loading times.
For one of those ISPs, there’s already a 60 page long of people complaining, for the last two months even. But since we’re tied by a contract, there’s no way I can leave it without paying a huge fine, and I only have problems with that one for gaming, since downloads come easily at 4~5mb/s.
Thus, I got the secondary connection. Top download speeds at 400kb/s, but usually very stable in games (first time it failed me in over a month). I do think this measure goes above and beyond what most users have. Sometimes speaking to your ISP won’t get you instant results, and if you don’t know that, lucky you.

As for everyone else, thank you for your replies, I do hope the MMR did get fixed properly so I can go back to enjoying some games.

Although ranks can be farmed, and with enough patience you can get to them, you also get experience, whether you want it or not. I don’t mind leasing, really don’t. Off course I won’t throw fireworks when I do, but it doesn’t bother me that much.
Playing against stupidly higher ranking people which give me absolutely no chance to learn and climb to that level on my own? That sucks the fun out of things.
Yes, they did use dragon finishers.

Any way to fix this? I have 2 connections, both were acting up, but only lagged out for a few seconds and lost all my points.
Also, when’s this mmr going to get fixed? Being pummeled by dragon ranks on just about every match really sucks the fun out of pvp faster than a black hole.

And just now, played a whole match, dc’d when we were at 460 points, came back, match is finished, I got 0 points. So awesome!

So my connection was acting funny today. I got d/c’d once every 20ish~30m, but it came back straight away, so I was able to relog and rejoin without a problem. But then I noticed my reward points at the end of a match. About a 1/4 of what I’d win if I hadn’t dc’d. Even if I played nearly the whole match, only dc’ing for… 10s? 20s at most for map loading and such. Is this normal?

Justin ODell.9517:

style.6173:

I never thought I’d say that I miss the old system, but wow. This new system was NOT ready for prime time. It is not fun.

Can you elaborate? We have plenty of things we can tweak to improve matchmaking now, so qualitative feedback is useful.

Well, I’ll give you my example. In my guild, we usually play together, 5 man teams, but we’re pretty casual. No huge discussions on builds pre-game, no anything. We go in to have some fun, kill some people, be killed and have a laugh (mixed with a few curses in between).
Today we only faced really high ranked people (or at least experienced, since we saw a lot of dragon finishers) while most of us aren’t even close to that rank. I don’t even know what MMR they are, but the fact we got absolutely destroyed on nearly every match was ridiculous. And we ended up playing against the same people, over and over. Knowing our chances were pretty slim, we still had to endure 4 matches in a row against the same people.
It’s disheartening, to say the least.
Now, I know some people will say “oh but you can just grind to dragon!” and I’m sure you can. But you’ll learn bits and bobs along the way, wether you realize it or not. When we’re being massacred repeatedly by the same people with obvious higher skill rank than us, something is wrong. If it weren’t for the usual banter and laughs in TS, if I was in say, solo queue, I’d have given up after the second match, since it was basically pointless. I don’t mind being paired every so often with higher skill people, since I’ll learn something from them (or try to anyway), but all those matches in a row?
Please fix this. Since the update, it’s been the matchmaking from hell.

At least make them not account bound. So I can share them with guildies/friends/the devil. Then they’d be useful!

They still feel so useless as a 2nd year reward though ._. first year I can understand, but second?

Is that really my only option for this? Seems really… useless oO

Hey guys. I’ve been checking the first few pages and I haven’t seen anything related to this. I have now 6 experience scrolls and absolutely nothing to do with them. I have all 8 professions and really have no plans on making any new ones, even though I have a 9th slot (unless ArenaNet introduce a new profession/race? which I don’t see it happening any time soon).
Is there anything you can do with these scrolls, besides deleting them? Seems a bit lackluster when compared to GW1 rewards… The mini’s you could at least keep them or sell them for gold if you weren’t that interested in them. These ones just make you stuck with an item. If you’re playing for 2 years, you probably already have a lot of lvl 80 characters, or at least above lvl 20.
Make something of an exchange NPC to trade them for… anything really? Crafting bags, random minis, collection unlockers, anything.

Shame it’s only this much we got… done in a few hours. :|

I agree with more primetime spawn times… if people actually work, it’s nearly impossible to be at some of the current spawn times.

I think he means endgame content for a 5-man team, not a 150-man map.
And like he said, an end-game content that actually offers something new to the game… the aetherblade path is fun the first time… then it just becomes the same old thing, with really no new content to lure me there. Any special skins you can only get there?
Fractals are the same dungeon over and over, just with more damage/mobs in them. Yay. After you get a good AR, you’re basically left to play cautiously and they give you nearly no trouble.
Having to depend on 149 other people in order to do “new” content? Depending on 4 can sometimes be a chore, much less 149 others.
I think this (that I wrote on facebook to them) completely relates to this topic:
Hmm… with all these updates, what will people have left to do in a while? Legendary skins are about to become so common, they won’t be that special anymore. Ascended sets can now be traded, so can skins. WvW exp will be account bound, so you won’t even have to work harder in order to bring a helpful character into WvW. PvP is… yeah. Dungeons are… farm fests? Most of the ones being done are the easy/quick paths to get gold, and fractals… they just don’t pose the same challenge now that AR is so common.
Are you adding new ways for us to spend gold? Are you adding new challenges for 5-man teams instead of the new 150-man content? Or is my one and only objective left in this going to be… grabbing that one legendary skin that really won’t change much for me (since I’m running full ascended as it is)?