Guild Wars 2

Unlike most people here on the forums I have no problem with the 10k drinks for the shoulders, but I have one major concern.

My concern is that the progress I put in this year towards the 10k will be removed and all those drinks I have consumed become just wasted gold I could have earned by selling or I could have held year after year till I gained 10k total. Can we get confirmation that drink progress carries year to year?

I just noticed this bug on the charactor select screen and in game. As you can see the tail is being rendered weirdly when the legs are on then with them removed the tail is rendered fine.

Over the last few days on the forums I have read many thread of people asking to keep the arena bosses the same or to nerf them.

What I have noticed in these threads is people don’t relize the difference between “nerfing” something or fixing it.

The gauntlet has A LOT of problems, but it brings a new difficulty level to GW2 that very few mmos have on the market.

Now some of the fixes dubbed by the forums as “nerfs” that really should be patched in include:

-A fix for the red circles on the floor
This fix should be pretty easy to implment by making the ground solid or by making it more pronounced.

-Colorblind mode
This has been asked for many times on the forums and still has not been added. Even for people like me who have pretty good vision, have trouble seeing the difference between some of the area of effect spells on the ground. This addition to the game should have a way to change the colors of the circles on the ground to a different color that the person viewing can see more easily, preferably on a case by case basis such as friendly ground aoe, enemy ground aoe, etc each with their own color selector.

-Double Bosses
After a few days of this even being live, I would expect a fix for the double bosses and 2 player 2 bosses scenarios, which as of today can and do occur quite frequently.

-Quake is being worked on, but was a major issue with the effect carrying over to other player’s fight.

*-Rifts being miss-able *
Not sure if a dev has commented on this, but why do certain forms of attack seem not to affect the rifts during the final boss fight. Some ranged weapons work, some don’t, some melee misses, some hits and some hit but don’t do damage. Either fix the rift or tell us why you want the rift to have so many variables, which don’t make sense compared to any other boss in the game.

-Add an option to tone down particle effects with out affecting graphics quality.
Across all the mmos I’ve played this is a pretty common feature to see, since I would like to see when an enemy is going to cast something and all the flash in this game makes that hard to do. Even the new “Improved Effects Level of Detail System” still isn’t very good.

-Pve Culling
When is this going to be fixed? In an mmo I’d expect to see someone standing 10 feet away from me. Why is this the only mmo that can’t handle that, just add an option like in WvW if you guys are worried about performance, I’m sure I can be the judge if my computer can handle something or not.

-Camera control + angles
This is not the first time this has been brought up and properly not the last. But why does the camera in the game just feel so sluggish and clunky compared to any other game I’ve played. It just doesn’t feel or act the way I expect it to. The way the camera acts also impacts nearly ever aspect of the game. From bad camera angles inside, puzzles and the new arena, something needs to be done with this camera. I would love more then 2 sliders to improve my camera experience please!

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-Camera Angle in the arena
For one fight in particular, the final boss, the camera is horrible when trying to lure a shadow to the white swirl, why is the glass curved so close to the edge? Either change the spawn of the white swirl or do something with the dome, because the camera is horrible that close to the wall.

-Targeting
Why can I still not make targets, while not in a party? Why does tab targeting target a white creature and not the close red npc attacking me? Why is my target deselected randomly in combat? I don’t understand why the targeting works this way and how something this basic in any mmo wasn’t fixed in alpha.

Boss specific stuff:
*Halmi Hammerfell: *add a more prominent visual cue to his wind-up. Something like what Ettins have.

(From this thread- https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Please-nerf-Queen-s-Gauntlet/first)

More enemies and bosses need more cues, but this is one of the worst offenders in this case.

*The crew of the pirate ship Ravenous: *Why does one aoe in this fight have red circles, like usual, but the other doesn’t and blends into the grated floor. Consistency is nice considering both the mass aoe effects in this fight are pretty much the same.

I am not asking for anything to be handed to me, I just want a working experience.

Nothing here will make a hard fight easier and in the long run these fixes will make GW2 a better game.

TL;DR -
The “nerfs” most people are asking for aren’t nerfs, but fixes to very real problems in the game, don’t complain on the forums not to fix stuff that is clearly broken and needs to be fixed, these fixes will not do anything but make the game better to play, nothing more. The arena fights will still be hard, no numbers have been changed, no mechanics have been changed, just basic features and visual stimuli.

… why do almost all the bugs still exist in the arena?

Rifts are still miss-able
You still get double bosses
Oozes still don’t despawn
The quake was broken and was removed
and other issues

Don’t make “hard” content and leave game breaking bugs in the game.

What engineer build do you use?

Cappy.2786:

Sounds like an awesome idea but it would take months to make and write in all that lore

But most the lore is already on the wiki and other sources in the game and they really need is a fancy ui to hold it in.

HawkMeister.4758:

Yeah, I said my piece.
No sense in a further discussion when the other sides main argument is, “it´s faster because I said so”.
Especially judging from a freshly installed system on unknown hardware.

If you bothered to read benchmarks that have been linked it does have a several fps increase in performance, not a major increase but 1-5 extra fps just from having a different OS is pretty nice.

Chase.8415:

I get complaints at work everyday in tech support in how much people hate windows 7.

Seriously, there’s really nothing you can do to convince the people to like windows 8,if they fear the change. No sense in arguing, it’s pretty obvious that some of these people have no clue how computers work or “inspiring technicians” that just read the first chapter of their certifications booklets.

Windows 8 performs faster on guild wars 2. There’s simply nothing you can do to change this fact.

One day I won’t need to support IE6 and Firefox 3.5 running on winxp as a web designer!

(I hope)

Something that most games have now days is a lore tab or section where you can read about the lore in the game.

Where to add it:
- In the Hero section of the ui between the story/achs sections

What does it do:
- It would record conversions about events, npcs and other things that you discover around the world.

Examples:
-You do a dungeon and complete it, now you have access to a lore section about the dungeon with history dates and events relating to the dungeon.

- You find a book in the world and read it, it is now recorded in the lore tab for reading later.

- You killed a new mob you have never seen before, their lore is added to the lore section about what said mob is, where they came from, etc.

- Completing achievements would also unlock lore sections around the lore about the achievement, for example find and completing a jumping puzzle will unlock the lore behind the jumping puzzle.

Achievements:
- Since most of this is based around achievements, not much would need to be changed though I’m sure they could add a lore section for finding book x or learning about y.

Also instead of doing the posts about stories and lore on the website they can be added directly to the lore book so players don’t even need to leave the game.

Gem Store Lore Books-
- They could add the 3 current books to the gem store and have it be delivered in 2 ways, once you buy it that book is added to the lore section, but you also get an email with a e-book version of the book you bought.

With Arenanet’s push into the achievement progression system this could be a nice filer for achievement point and add depth to the game.

I’ll add more as I think about how this could be added, any feedback would be nice!

Blissified.8369:

i dont see how windows would make it look any different.

Only time o.s has made games look “better” is when windows forces you to have to upgrade to get the latest dx, which happend from windows xp to windows 7 (windows xp didnt support dx11 even though it could have is ms wanted it to, it was just a scam to get people to upgrade to windows 7.)

So even if you did go from windows xp to windows 8, gw2 should’nt look any better since gw2 is dx9.

Looks =/= performance and Win8 does have slight performance optimization over Win7.

HawkMeister.4758:

JPSnow.8296:

I also have no idea what your talking about with stream it works fine I use it all the time…. Some people just don’t like change I guess.

You´re ignorant, please inform yourself. I suggest googling Gabe Newell´s comment on Win8.
I use Win7 on an SSD and it probably boots about 3 seconds slower than Win8 would.
I can live with that.
You really have to start understanding that with Microsoft change = hype.
Microsoft wants to control the market, any market it is involved in.

Every product ever has been hyped, every company wants market control and what ONE person says doesn’t matter when there really is no control over the games market on win8 like gabe said win8 would do, unless you count the ONE Halo mobile game, every thing on Windows 8 works fine all the way back to Win95 with my original disks for Half life 1 and built in mounting to play older pc titles, w/o a disk.

Almost every major mmo and other online games have a ptr and judging by the amount of bugs areanet has each patch it might be worth having, that or invest in a bigger QA deportment.

Off the top of my head these are some games with a PTR WoW (argue how ever you would like this game has become so much bigger at patch to patch no buggy patches a few things here and there but nothing like it has back in vanilla) Team Fortress 2, Dota 2, League of Legends, and many more.

If it didn’t work why would any of these games spent time having a PTR in the first place, so it has to be working somehow and arguably these games are all less buggy or not buggy at all after a patch compared to GW2.

Thanks for the invite. If anyone is interested in doing the dungeon hit me up.

I’ll join up. I have been pugging for the last few days and have yet to complete it.

My name is Renna Ashclaw.

I have tried to do the dungeon a few times now, the first few times were yesterday and we beat the first boss after learning to jump on the boxes but failed to beat the 2nd boss due to it bugging out.

Today I tried to do it and it seems no one wants to do this dungeon, once I finally did get a group it seems like no one likes to listen and jump on the boxes and just eats the lasers, this happened in 2 different groups over the course of 4 hours. Even if you yourself dodge the laser it doesn’t help dealing with resing 2 people ever phase 2-3 while dealing with pulls and the lasers.

I think I should be toned down or something. Between bugs and mechanics that make it so you cannot res anyone past phase 2, having to choose between jumping on a box or dodge rolling a pull or not seeing a pull since the golem pull you through the big glowy wall. I understand stability is needed but as an engineer one of our stability buffs is random and the other is based off a useless turret.

Something needs to be changed because right now it is not only hard to find a group, but hard to complete as well with people who don’t listen.

INB4 lrn2play or find a guild I know how to play as I’m am usually the only one alive in phase 3 and I am in a guild.

I don’t want the dungeon nerfed, but I don’t think people seem to want to do this dungeon. One major thing I think that needs to be addressed that will fix not only this dungeon, but everything is downing down all this flash and particle effect or allows use to tone it up or down on a slider like almost every other mmo I’ve played without affect character models and textures. This single change could fix the dungeon and make more people willing to do it (once pathing bugs are fixed)

Guild Halls should be apart of player housing.

For example say you can purchase/build a guild hall that is for 100 people. Each person can have their own room that they can add stuff to.

Then as a guild you can build stuff like farms for specific plants, a tree farm, maybe an underground mine to spend some time mining.

There can also be small training areas to practice different builds and traits free of charge.

And if you complete events as a guild you can add trophies such as a dragon head from jormag, a sword from AC, and other stuff.

Maybe add some mini games with mini pets/skin rewards like fishing in a pond in your hall or foot races, player dueling, and other activities and maybe have some G vs G activities to earn trophies for your guild hall.

Allow me to show you the abilities i used in wow on my enchantment shaman(Wrath).
6 buttons. 5 since one is just to place totems.

Now compared to my charr engineer with 5 buttons just on my rifle + 5 on my flame thrower + my heal + my elite and 2 potions and my 4 tool belt skills. Yeh, Guild Wars 2 has ALOT more flexibility in combat then my shaman ever had.

I would be fine with most armor on charrs IF they added in a hole for the tail in most medium and some light armors. I mean a majority of the medium armor sets just have the tail just clipping through the back and it really needs to be fixed.

Now, we all know that Arenanet is working on a lfg tool for the game and there is even a tool, while bad, is still a lfg tool. Currently the tool almost everyone uses is http://gw2lfg.com/ .

What my suggestion is use what is available to you Arenanet, don’t just make a basic everyone ques for a dungeon you auto join a group tool. I want a kind of server browser like list with descriptions, like how the website is set up, though a auto join group party option would be nice for people used to that.

Stilling looking for a guild, dunno how actively people recruit from these forums, but might as well bump.

It seems to have fixed itself in the last 24hours, so I take it re-logging fixed it or Anet did, either way it is fixed.

Still looking for a guild if anyone is interested in someone like myself.

I just completed doctor of baubles/secrets, world 1 but now they reset to this state for some reason.

I tried to complete both of them again and they won’t complete.

Not really sure what to do.

Hello,
I just recently started to play Guild Wars 2 again after about a two month break and apparently my old guild fell apart. So, I am looking for a new one to call my home.

I am a college student so my time is limited during the week, but during the weekend I can play almost all day.

I am looking for a guild that is friendly does WvW, does guild missions, runs dungeons and fractals and maybe some causal pvp. Generally a guild that does stuff.

I use a grenade build, but I like to experiment alot with my builds.

Might as well add this:

I have been apart of many mmos from WoW (to cata), swtor, and many many ftp games.
I have been a guild leader leading heroic icc runs, an officer for 10man kara runs, and just a regular member of many guilds over the years, so I know the ins and outs of many aspects of a guild.

I hope to be a reliable asset to someone’s guild just message me here or in game.

Not really used to looking for a guild on a forum like this, I am used to filling out an application, like a job, for guild membership so I hope this gives a reasonable look at myself.

As the topic states, I believe that the hint ach is currently bugged as you can see I have everything completed yet I am 3 short.

I think that they should chance the minis that are dropped via box or rng to tradeable item to allow people with the gold but not money to be able to purchase then, like the bank, and then add a second option to allow you to directly purchase the minis with gems, BUT they will be account bound so people cannot just but them for the gold.

This would allow Arenanet to be able to get people to use the trading post/rng mechanics for those who want to make money and allow those of us who just want the pets to purchase them without worrying about rng.

Tom.6478:

I thank Arenanet too for fixing problem…my biggest complaint is not keeping us informed. When there is a problem, just knowing whats going on will make it much more easier to just wait and see.

Update by the hour or a least several times a day as to what to expect.

Put our minds at ease so we know things will work out.

At least they are not afraid of patching and hot-fixing the game during the week, instead of only 1 day a week like most mmos.

Welp It look like Arenanet really does look at feedback and do something about it thanks for the 3rd mini!

Engineers are about utility, switching kits rapidly for different effects is why it doesn’t deal much damage, try this kind of build:

http://www.gw2builds.org/view/1002006/my_build#1.0-1.11.10.16.1-0.30.0.30.10-11.9.7.4.6.3.6

Pair it with the Balthazar runes on your armor.
Sigils : MH : Sigil of Earth OH: Sigil of Smoldering

Also I agree turrets need a change I only use them to hold the one underwater point in pvp and that’s it none of my other builds contain a single turret, seems kinda lame that they are basically useless compared to a lot of the other builds out there.

Edit: fixed link