Guild Wars 2

I have not played the game for quite some time. I actually had motion sickness on the first 20 mins playing the game “without” the mount. Then I got used to it. So I am not sure it’s the mount that cause motion sickness. More like camera rotating too fast. I seemed to spend quite some time looking for my mouse pointer that I have to shake it left/right to make it appear then the camera would spin/move too because of that, which cause me sick when doing it too often/fast. Yesterday the mount speed was great like true racing game, but today speed is reduced I feel a bit empty about it XD. I was playing the raptor racing game, and I feel the look back button has to work so you know who is right behind you.

It actually feels good like riding a motorbike. The turn 180 degree around does not work though.

Mega events are probably ok with taxi. Raid or even fractal are not. There are simply no group on lfg. Difficulty is really not an issue. Hope the new lfg tool would really solve it.

Aceofsppades.6873:

Those stats on trinkets will be coming in the living world updates

This latest patch sort of just killed me for this. Good to know there are other ways. Hopefully not as difficult as getting the amulet from the mordremoth story boss lag wise. Though I’d rather get the HOT trinkets from raid if I can find a raid guild from my time zone because raid has a currency and can be used to buy many things. And I have a feeling this currency is replacing other currencies gradually. As long as I do not have this currency, I feel I like a new player that will never progress. Might as well just gg now if there is no hope in the future. Most of these trinkets I think are for wvw, so you wonder why people don’t wvw now.

Hi, I think water scences are actually nice, but just not focused atm. In the future, how about adding a new feature called submerge. Just like gliding in the air, submerge allows you to fight on the ocean floor just like on the lands and use the 3 water weapons with new different skills when fighting on ocean floor. So you can switch between 2 modes while underwater. Add new traits/trait line if necessary for more fun. Instead of making new maps, rework on the water scene machenics and add new mini games like sea treasure hunting sort of things.

There can even be a live story. For example, Taimi went look for rare materials to make a more robost scruffy so that it won’t break next time it serves as a wire… She went to the caribbean sea and had gone missing. Few months later some little asura general leads an army of cute quaggans attacking vigil outposts who looks familiar… Boss has to investigate what happened and there you go Rise of Asura (ROAR) one of your future expansion (if there is more) invloving sea dragon XD. I am just thinking out loud.

RoseofGilead.8907:

BBMouse.6510:

I’d vote for Zhaitan. You need a group and I bet it’s hard to get a group nowadays. The whole instance takes a long time. The mini bosses are ok, but the final boss fight is like sitting on a turret and watch a movie. I guess the fact it’s a group fight as a story boss is just not good. I can’t do it with all my chars.

It’s soloable now. You can go alone or with up to four other people. It’s still long and a bit unsatisfying, though. :\

Oh nice! I will take it back then. I’d be happy Thanks for the info~

Mordremoth boss fight is not that bad, but the mechanic can be very frustrating to repeat over and over again due to resets from beginning. That’s the reason I won’t try to get that amulet XD.

I’d vote for Zhaitan. You need a group and I bet it’s hard to get a group nowadays. The whole instance takes a long time. The mini bosses are ok, but the final boss fight is like sitting on a turret and watch a movie. I guess the fact it’s a group fight as a story boss is just not good. I can’t do it with all my chars.

OP suggests a martial artist. Just want to mention that staff physical daredevil is some sort of a close relative monk martial artist.

I am playing on a Asus X75V with soso spec. I bought it a year ago for only ~$400, and I wasn’t buying it to play gw2. Just a cheap general purpose NB. My gw2 PC’s graphic card burned out, so I wasn’t really buying anther game machine after. Until HOT, I try on the NB and it seems to work… more or less…

This NB at default graphic setting gives me ~10FPS. With low graphic setting it’s about 20FPS. XD My PC at work can run > 60 FPS, so I used it to do some hard JP or achievement. With 10 FPS it’s hard to do JP and you feel like space work. And you won’t see many red aoe circle till too late. But 20FPS seems to be ok. Just that everyone else on screen wears the same red armors XD So yeah you can try to buy a NB around $800+ and have a better (hopefully double) performance than mine.

If I were the game designer, I’d design the game whatever I want it to be that I think is fun. Like minded players will enjoy it, make suggestions if needed, report bugs, give out some ideas, and that’s all. I’d do my best to improve to make everyone happy while still keeping the game’s idea and integrity. If the players don’t like the lot of it, I wonder why they play the game. If they want some sort of game mode so badly, I’d suggest they become the game designer themselves and implement it. This is not a mmo thing, it’s what a video game is, that is to gather together to play a game that you all like. Rage or toxic I wonder why they are ever a thing in a video game…. ?

Oh… Quaggans are sold out on iam8bit.

Maybe make AR an account bound number just like account MF or GF. Nothing else needs to be changed. The infusions can be the same regular wvw ones or simple stat boost ones.

I have a feeling the new desert map is designed to give defenders more advantage. So probably/hopefully fewer defenders can hold off larger offending zerg. If that is the case, maybe we can try mixing the old and new maps. Every week at reset, the server with the highest rank of a tier use the old apple map as their home BL, while the other 2 use the new desert map as home BL. It’s like a handicap for the top server at that tier and they have to play harder to advance or keep their rank. You also have the choice to play both maps so people in zombie zerg mode don’t get bored easily. XD Could give this a try before making any change to the new map and see how it turns out~

I will give an example of what toxic is to me. It’s not people joke/drama or troll around in map chat. It’s down to a personal level that you can feel the hostility from an individual towards you.

You know when you beat SW and there is a chest in the south maze with a lot of dogs chasing you. I headed in to have my chest while I saw a bunch of dead people around the chest in mini-map. So one person started cursing another guy bringing the dog to wipe them all while they were opening chest. I actually saw a guy who possibly did that (or maybe he was just a survivor) on his way out because he passed the dog chasing him to me. As far as I was concerned, there was no one alive in the room so I just headed in trying to res them. The dog was with me, but I knew I’d lose its agro. Then I became the one getting called an idiot to bring the dog in… And another person tried to explained it’s not nice to do that. Apparently someone didn’t like the lecture and brought another dog after me and killed me…

So I guess I am an idiot after all. Trying to rez people and getting trolled. And probably became the criminal who caused their wipe? The toxic part is when I was getting called an idiot I actually felt his hate. And when he was doing that he didn’t care who caused it and would accuse anyone nearby with real hate.

Has anyone tried a full cleric meditation symbol guardian with mace shield and staff? From build editor it has 3.4k+ armor and tons of heal. Maybe it can serve as a tank healer and other 9 player just dps in raid.

I can give you numbers from my own experience. I sold most of stuff pre-hot, spent them, and left only ~10 gold for HOT to be begin with. One month later today since HOT I am at ~100G. So it’s like an average of 2-3G/day. I used to do casual pug dungeon runs and had around 10-12G/day. This means It’s gonna take x4 amount of time to make an ascended armor set, so time gate is not really an issue to me because I have less gold. And yeah even the casuals aim for top gears because it’s the default incentive (if nothing else) for any rpg game.

I finished map completion for my chars. These have been what I do for 2-4 hours every night in pve casually (watch TV at the same time XD).
1. tarr meta (play only once or no play, but can fail due to me needing to go afk during it and actually failed twice so far)
2. ds meta (play only once or no play, but can fail due to me needing to go afk, actually failed once, or map bug that happened twice so far)
3. daily 50-100 fractal (I often do 1 fractal so not always daily 3/3)
4. some old world boss

I don’t do raid due to it’s not generally easy to pug for many reasons. I don’t do dungeon due to it’s known to be in-efficient to make gold now and not many people on lfg to pug anyway. I don’t wvw ‘cause the people I knew and played with are not there any more. Either they change server, not playing gw2, or use chars I don’t recognize (game is 3 years old, it’s hard to recognize someone if you don’t purposely remember their account names). The desert map is not bad if it was released earlier while there was huge wvw population, and adding glider in it might be nice too. I don’t pvp ’cause it can get too excited and make me lose sleep and affect work.

I generally play gw2 for it’s combat systems for different builds. Fractal kind of limit this because of needing AR on gears so I only use 1 character who has enough AR to run it. Big fights like boss / meta generally requires pressing 1 and skill lags don’t let you do much sometimes. Mid fights like raid requires time to assemble team and begging people to play with. Small fights like hp needs to beg people too if no one else was doing it. So I have not tried many builds due to nowhere to apply them XD. Dungeon was the best place to fulfill multi-purpose in one run, but I wouldn’t miss it if there are other places to explore.

So I put down all my HOT experience as a casual to those who are interested. I do not treat it as an expansion, more like a new addition to a franchise. Like it’s gw3 while we inherit items from gw2. While there are many areas to improve, it’s generally fun.

I think a guild with core members mostly know each other in RL. I only joined a guild once before HOT. It was a wvw guild and they had core members. You could tell from the frequent chatters. Every time I joined the guild run in wvw they just suddenly disappeared and left me there to die alone or many times some commander just called me to join them only to serve as a decoy pug group meat shield to die so that the core group could pull off some operations somewhere else. So I left the guild and never bother to join any other guild any more. If you are not a core member of a guild, you are just another pug carrying the guild’s name. LFG tool is good enough. At least when I join a lfg group we have the same goal doing the same thing at that particular same time willingly. But lfg is not going to work well for raid yeah.

I only tried it once with a pug. I think it’s actually good if you were in an org group with skilled players who all know the fight and who have the gears for their roles. Those who beat it and say the fight is good and difficulty is right, I believe them.

If a casual pug will ever do it, here are some problems I observe:

1. Getting 10 people with long wait time to form the group. The fault tolerance is small, and so is the success rate. The long wait time really is the cause. It includes forming the initial party + someone quit the party when failed and you need to reform the party. Casuals want to login, play something, and out happy no waiting~

2 If you look at lfg, most lfr wants condition/healer/tank. I suspect most pve players have zerker gears only. So yeah some people simply have no gears for those groups. That reduces your chance to join a pug group who already have all zerkers filled.

But again, raid is not designed for casual. So as a casual, I am ok to bypass this content as long as legendary armor (or ascended armor with selectable stats) are obtainable from somewhere else. I am going to hang out with Taimi and see how the repair goes with Scruffy XD.

It came out few days ago, and this is the first weekend and no one wants to play with newbies already. Just saying XD Raid is not a challenge content; it’s inaccessible to those who didn’t play it on the first day ’cause those who did already formed groups.

kk thx, so I just need to do 50 then. Got it~

My personal reward level was at 50 before HOT. I want to start playing 50+ now and get the +7 AR stuff, but the 51-75 and 76-100 are grey out. What do I have to do to unlock? Thanks

Taimi~ ^^ Taimi~

Maybe pause the game for few mins whenever < 10 people in the instance?

If they can always stay within say ~300 range around your character, they should be ok as a quick fix. And teleport to you if they get stuck by rocks while you are running away.

Hi, I am trying this on my axe burst. It does not seem to do 2 leaps with both normal or berserker mode. Also, the rage sundering leap does not seem to do 2 leaps either. I also try it on a fire field from long bow and it does not have 2 leaps. So please take a look ‘cause it seems to be a nice trait to play ^^ Plz ignore me if it’s a known issue.

There are huge chests down there. You got to get them all ^^

On the south east of the first map on top of a mountain (need glider 2 to access after alliance copter is available), there is a mother of all legendary wyvern with x2 the size sitting there (probably because of my camera in that tight space). There is your challenge try solo it.

My biggest problem is the hero points of a champion with 5 min timer to defeat it. It can’t be solo and no one comes when you are in a low population map. I play at sea hour. So I feel the solution for me at this time is to join an active guild and find the people in the same time zoom to play, which is a different problem.

I actually bought HOT just for the new traits. But it took hours just to explore the maps with most WP contested at most time and end up having to run most of the time if downed. A lot of the hero points is a champion with a 5 min timer, so you can’t solo it. If you are in a low server like me, you would end up in a low megaserver (I know ’cause most of guilds I see are from my server) and can sit on a hero point for a long time if anyone ever come. To think we need to do all classes, need a vacation between them. XD The maps are not bad to play, but just huge and tiresome especially when WP are contested. HOT is definitely for hardcore farmers. XD

Not bad. It’s actually a type of pvp mode (1vX). You could put a boss arena inside pvp arena. 1 player plays the boss while other X players against it. X can be as big as 100. Might be some interesting experience for the one playing the boss and the zerg would be fighting an intel boss. Imagine you play kittenter and the zerg not would be complaining about auto attack its right hand anymore. It would be wiping the zerg instead XD.

Brainhex got Conqueror
4 player type test got Innovator

I guess I have dual personality :O
It could still be true. Usually Innovator on the surface, while become Conqueror when situation calls XD Just wondering what kind of situation ^

These little test games are fun to play nonetheless. I guess gaming companies use these test results for surveys.

Maybe the whole thing can be made really simple. At lv 80 there is a total of 50 trait points for example. a GM trait cost 5 point, major cost 4, adept cost 3, other traits 2 or 1, etc (GM, major, adept are just naming). Just assign a base cost of each trait. Then players choose any combo to a sum of 50 freely. If some build ends up overpowered, just increase trait cost to break that build later. This way I feel there are more builds to play

I replayed it again and it seemed cleared this time. I recalled going to eat dinner for 30+ min while staying in the story instance on my first try, so that could be the cause of problem. I finished it this time without interruption so it worked.

Hi, I think I need to elaborate. Both of my 5 and 6 shows complete under achievements – story journal – 5 and 6 complete.

But under story journal – LS2. The ones that show complete usually give a yellow icon on the right and only option you have is “replay this episode” under them. But my 5 somehow does not give that. Instead it’s a grey star icon on the right and 2 options under it – “continue this episode” and “replay this episode” under it. So it does not look consistent with other complete ones.

Hi, I just bought it and played a few. I had 1-4 done before so I only needed to buy 5-8. Today I played 5 and 6. 5 does not show complete, but 6 does. So please take a look into 5. Thanks

I have been trying a main D/P swap hand P/P in pug dungeons lately. It is very fun. :P

trait
0 6 0 4 4 – invigorating precision (15% life leech), practiced tolerance (to get ur hp around 15k with full zerker set), side strike (will have >100% crit with fury and without any food buf), power of inertia, quick recovery, thrill of crime, and ricochet

utility
full signet (never need to use them actually XD passive works well), swap to stealth in some situation. I use hide in shadows for heal. ellite whatever u like.

I never know if it’s the high dps but if 100 B can get to 20k (I have not played war for some time so might be different) i have seen unload do 12k-14k (don’t forget it’s aoe with ricochet). If you get 25 might stack from party you will do even more (you yourself can generate 5+ might stack).

With 15 initiative and many ways to get initiative in this build, u can almost constant unload or heartseeker 247 XD. Don’t worry about condition removal. All you do is keep attacking and leech back life.

you will have constant shiftness with the thrill of crime + constant dodges.

The only catch is people’s expaction in this game. They expect thief to use SB blaster, stealth, solo something, pistal stun something, etc. People will always complain if u don’t play thief meta. Or any other class same issue. There are many viable and fun builds for every class, might not be the highest dps but good enough dps and fun. So give it a try and you might like it.

Linken.6345:

And saidsystem can be avused by bad people giving good omes bad scores no thanks

It’s not going to happen. All you need to do is make a minor modification to the current system. People only get a negative score when they are reported bannable actions, which Anet has a team to verify the reports. If you make false reports, they will find out too and give you negnative score instead. Chances are the majority players will stay at 0 score. The point is to allow pug to see the score in the title so that they know who they are playing with.

Lorgus.6148:

Only if Anet adds other titles like “Bearbow” and “Ranges at Lupi” too

Sounds good. In fact, there used to have a personality system but they removed it. They should have it by letting other players give you personality score instead of letting players define their own. And the title are given by other players as well. So all characters (yeah soul bond) start at 0 (neutral) and they can have a cap of +100 for nice char or -100 for dark char or something like that. Players can work toward one end and others will give score for you by your ingame behavior. And everyone can see the title so people know what kind of people you are in the game and easier to find like mided people. If they really want to consider this, they can work out all details. It’s just an idea. XD

I have this fear as OP suggested. After few months of absence playing the game, I came back to play it again because of the news of expansion release. Less in a week of play, I got kicked out of blue from a low level fractal run yesterday. I have always been careful not to join trouble looking LFG groups, but there you go it happens anyway. Because of my inflexible play time, I have to use LFG to pug dungeons always.

I understand it’s not the best interest of Anet to ban people and lose players good or bad. So I am suggesting to forget about banning but instead force a title on the player account so that other people can see it. For example make some sort of prisoner/criminal/traitor/Jerk titles. When a player got reported and is proved to be bannable, force those titles on all characters of the account for 2 weeks the first time. They will be carrying those titles during the time they play till time expired and regain control to change their own title. 2nd time is 1 month, etc. The more bannable actions they take will prolong the criminal titles each time. So if a pug using lfg see those kind of titles, they would know what kind of people they are playing with and they can decide to stay or leave party. Those that carry prolonged criminal titles can actually form a guild and enjoy to make friends with like minded people XD. Though it would be hilarious to see a zerg of people with various criminal titles in wvw or boss events XD. Just a suggestion trying to help improve the quality of the game and wish there is something like that in expansion.

RNG is never meant to guarantee something to happen other than a random chance of luck. The idea is that the chance is so low that if it ever happened in your life, the feeling makes you feel special and good (or lucky XD). No one should ever rely on luck to achieve something they really want. Just like in RL you get a job to accumulate wealth (or grinding in dungeon for gold) and occasionally buy lottery with your excess money (mystic forge) for luck. Unless you aim to be a professional gambler and want to live in casino. Even those pros rely on their gambling techniques but not luck.

People play games wanting to get rewards for sure. So just add other ways to achieve those goals and leave RNG as it is. If you change RNG and guarantee success, I can see a lot of people just sit there rolling the dies and not actually playing the game XD.

Silvia.9130:

Honestly, I followed these lines for two years and everything went well, always. I am pretty confident that if everyone behaved more like this, we would see much less “I was kicked for no reason!!!!!!!!!!” posts. ^^

I was playing exactly like Silver did and I wish people would do the same so there is no pointless arguments when playing games. Truth was I still got kicked from no reason from time to time or got verbal abused because someone was in a bad mood and wanted to vent his anger over some pug players. Honestly all the video games are technically much better in all aspects comparing to those years ago. The only thing that turns people off nowadays are other people trolling you. At least to me that’s the reason I would probably not touch online games much. Because the fun from gaming to me was from the game play but not including other people’s verbal fights or anger release on you. But Anet as a gaming company is definitely a top notch I will give it that.

So basically they ask people to join without specific requirements. Then They look at you, decide they don’t want you somehow, and kick you just like that. Not even a word and this is ok. I guess there are all kind of people playing this game. If those are the majority, I guess it’s not for me to hang around any more.

The ads is “HOTW lfm p1 exp”

It has a smily face makes you think these are nice people. The moment I join the party and enter dungeon, I got kicked. Not even a chance to say hi. Then I look at the lfg again and the ads is up again. So I join again and leave the party soon after so that I can have their names. Is this reportable? Has this game become something so boring that people play the tool to fool around instead of playing the game?

I think some major improvements in WvW. If it’s more pve stuff, it makes no difference to buy stuff from gem stores.

There was one time I was doing AC p1 at boss someone called for stacking so we all stacked at the fgs location. Then I saw the boss was about to fire its beam and it was still 900 range away. So I dodged away while the rest of them wiped by that beam 1 sec later insisting not leaving the stack. One of them started to complain about me not stacking resulting for the wipe, while the truth is I will be dead too if I didn’t dodge away… I think the term “stack” has become a rule that some just follow it like a bible regardless of any situation. They stack right in front of the killing beam and don’t think it’s wrong.

In reality this happened to me about a year ago. The fact I still remember it means this kind of behavior is bad and unforgetable.

I was puging with a 4-player in same guild. They were in skype as one of them mentioned that at the beginning. So along the whole SE run they combined skype with typing so the whole converstation in the chat channel didn’t make any sense to me. Then just when the boss arrived, one of them suddenly said a guild friend of his is up and wanted to play. He said sorry and kicked me. As if this is perfectly normal. So OP’s scenerio is real. But victims would usually just complain straight forward instead of pretending to be the villain to setup the trial.

justkoh.4073:

Please comment. Reportable? Just jerk behavior? Or perfect crime?

A perfect crime is you are doing it and no ones knows about it. Now that you bring this up, it’s either a scenario that you want to see how others react or you are a victim who wants to bring this to Anet’s attention.

The Grand Artisan title gives a box that contains a list of exotics of which you can keep 1. I just obtained it recently and actually find out the price of each of those on TP and sell it. The highest item worth around 150G at the time. So yeah, the reward is 150G for me. Precursor is like near 800G+ XD. So anyway, the reward can be some amount of gold and you buy whatever you want from TP with that gold. I mean any reward can be made gold in this game.

Ascended armor/weapon from fractals are not reliable. The only ones I need are the zerker type, which never dropped. I usually got the condition healing types from the drops which are currently taking my bank spaces XD. I got all my ascended from crafting at the end.

I don’t know aout the dps thing, but the 200 toughness increase as intended would be nice. I play flamethrower build in dungeon/fractal a few times and I notice it draws aggro very much and can’t break it easily. I can tell because I seem to have little hp while the rest of the team is full hp very often. I guess the flame touchs everything and the mob all come to you.

It does not matter how exp is exp. If someone is there to kick, they will by all means.

I was just in an exp dungeon yesterday playing ranger. There is another ranger who seems to be less “exp” because his pet aggro mod and breaks our stacks and he does not F3 the pet. People start complaining about pets then both of us got kicked.