Guild Wars 2

Silhouette.5631:

It just wierds me out that retreat has a higher CD. srsly

Why? Feel My Wrath is an elite skill. It should be much better than non-elites. Like in GW1 where elite skills were actually elite.

Same problem. After the patch the profession icons for me appear as black blocks (see screenshot). I tried to see if changing to simple UI will fix that and got the crash.

Knighthonor.4061:

sirsquishy.8531:

Bosses Damage spots are going to be critable on the next patch. The Teq thread has a reply from a dev saying ‘I made sure of it’ So this will be a non-issue moving forward.

Wait i am confused. I thought those spots were already critiable.
thought that was the whole point of standing in those locations.

can somebody clear this up for me?

Nope, lots of spots are bugged and cannot be crit. Instead, you have to find weird spots that the OP posted. With the next update supposedly ALL spots will be crittable.

Pretty much everything in the game earns money. Some activities (like dungeons) are faster in earning gold than others ( like jumping puzzles). It’s perfectly fine.

“When under 1% health gain 25 might, 1 minute of fury and swiftness.”

I completely agree. It’s an illusion of choice. The traits are mostly dictated by the weapon you choose and not by your preferred playstyle as it should have been.

Happens to me occasionally in PvP. The turrets attack fine the first person that I am targeting when activating the turrets but then if the person dies and a new enemy comes the turrets would just sit and not attack the new enemy.

fishball.7204:

Silverwastes – I always pop magic find food and oil, very cheap for 60% bonus (Spicy Pumpkin Cookie and the Halloween Oils)

I don’t think magic find food works well for Silverwastes. The vast majority of the mobs don’t drop anything and magic find doesn’t work on the reward chests.

Draknar.5748:

Now there needs to be a bit more participation and suddenly its the end of the world.

Basically, yes. The old Teq was full of 1500 range (out of wave range) auto-attackers and melee range rez-me-pls auto-attackers. They now can’t park their chars and come back 15 mins later for the chests.

Can’t be serious – after the ferocity update the low level dungeons became a faceroll.
Also, winning the World Series PVP Tournament is also near impossible. Let’s complain about that too!

I guess it might be useful if you want to afk at Teq. Oh wait, there is no auto attack. Yeah, it’s useless.

An elite kit that’s worse than pretty much all non-elite kits. GG.

+1 It’s really cumbersome. Kills my desire to use it.

Wait, I can’t play the patch, didn’t they buff the hp of the world bosses? I mean, if they were balanced for physical damage + 25 condi stacks before patch doesn’t that mean they will be mega weak for physical damage + 100s of condi stacks?

It never fails to amaze me when people think there is some correlation between how many blog posts are left and the release date. They can do 5 blog posts per week or none at all if they planned so.

I wonder how much the next expansion will cost having in mind it will come with “free” GW2 and HoT.

Yuri Kwon.1069:

I would rather buy xpac and play hundreds or thousands hrs. Good-Bye

I guess it’s possible if the new map(s) is (are) as grindy and as rng-y as Silverwastes.

Well put.

Vagrant.7206:

Is there really somebody at ANet’s executive level that is this incompetent at understanding how this works, or are they genuinely malicious?

It’s probably the same person who thought 300 gold per commander color is OK.

It should have been “I auto-attacked, hey I auto-attacked again”. That’s the majority of the open world PvE.

Ricky.4706:

I’m just trying to find the point in time when they stopped trusting us to just buy stuff and support them, and instead thought more about marketing and statistics ?
where exactly in time did we stop being friends ?

Supposedly when they hired a new monetization manager to run their marketing in late 2012. Let’s see what happened after that: Introduction of ascended grind-or buy-gems; Attempt to charge 300 g per commander tag color; Attempt to force customers to only buy gems in preset amounts; Discontinuing full armor sets in the gem store in favor of the more quickly and easily produced (thus more profitable) outfits; Not providing a character slot with HoT Standard knowing very well the majority of the players will have to buy one.

Ahh the infamous “I swung a sword” line. Second in epicness only to Diablo 3’s Jay Wilson “And then we doubled it”.

It’s a cash milking move. Same when Anet wanted to charge 300 gold for a commander color (lol!) or make it so you could only buy a preset amount of gems on the store.

rapthorne.7345:

I’d advise reading things before you blindly purchase them in future

Hopefully, at least he didn’t get the Ultimate because the page defaults to it.

Rhanoa.3960:

GW2 $69.99

3yr $0.00

In 3 years you never bought gems? Yikes. That’s some first class penny pinching.

Kury.8210:

However, it would be nice if the stats could be changed to encourage experimenting different builds.

This is exactly what’s stopping me from crafting ascended armor. I don’t want to be stuck in one stat set. What if I feel like playing a new build? What if a balance update changes things? What if I need different sets for the different game modes?

warbignime.4610:

People are having ridiculous expectations and it bothers me.

I expect that if there is a new class I wouldn’t have to pay 10 dollars extra to be able to play it. Doesn’t seem way too ridiculous for me.

If you go to McDonalds and they say the cheeseburger is 20 dollars would you buy it? No? Why, you can save up 20 bucks in no time! Don’t be so cheap!

Seriously, the issue is not that people can’t afford the expansion. The issue is that it’s value might or might not be justified. I work a mediocre job and can afford the Ultimate no problem, but here’s what’s actually stopping me from preorder:

1. It’s too long overdue. My guild is barely active and I myself lost pretty much all interest in the game in the past 6-8 months.

2. The stubborn refusal from Anet to include proven, loved and desired game modes such as Guild vs Guild, Hall of Heroes, Underworld, Fissure of Woe, Elite Missions, Alliance Battles, Fort Aspenwood, etc. Heck, they wouldn’t even re-add stuff that’s already made and the community loved such as the Marionette, The Scarlet ship breach, the Molten Facility dungeon (the fractal doesn’t count).

3. We don’t know what the new maps will be like but chances are they will be similar to Dry Top and the Silverwastes. In other words, really good for the first dozen of playthroughs until you realize you need to run them hundreds and hundreds of times to beat the rng and get the reward you want. Plus, the emphasis on gimmicks such as gliding and mushroom jumping is not my cup of tea.

4. The lack of character slot in the Standard edition is a really low move. They know PERFECTLY well that the majority of people will have to buy a slot to play the new class thus giving them more cash.

5. No info on new dungeons? Seriously? But every week there is a new outfit, mini or magic carpet.

Of course there are lots of positives as well. Finally, conditions will be viable, the elite specs look tasty, the environment looks as gorgeous as ever, Stronghold, while not being as good as Fort Aspenwood IMO still seems like a fun mode, the new WvW map on paper looks really intriguing, etc.

So yeah, 50 dollars is not too much, just have to see if it’s justified.

I know, I want to believe the core game is free but at the back of my mind it’s "What if they included the core game for “free” just to increase the price? What if the xpac actually costs 40 and I have to pay 10 more to subsidize the new players’ bundle?"

What can they say? The pre-purchase is live so no changes can be made. Some people already pre-purchased so they will be screwed if something changes. If you expect Anet to come out and confess “Yeah, originally we thought HoT will cost 20 bucks but then we had the brilliant idea to add the core game and make it 50” don’t hold your breath.

rapthorne.7345:

There will be continued content development of HoT over time, it’s not a case of what comes at launch is what you get and that’s that.

The continued content will be handsomely paid for by gem purchases for outfits, minis, magic carpets and such.

Absolutely. The price of the standard edition is $60 let’s be real.

Agreed. The only thing that we know exactly what it is is Stronghold because of the beta. Maybe future betas will reveal more.
For me – no way I am pre-purchasing based on Stronghold alone. It’s not as awesome as Alliance Battles and Fort Aspenwood.

Caedmon.6798:

The price of gw2 atm is around 20e,The xp pack will cost 40 ? That’s including the core game,so what happens is,you’re paying again for the game you already bought and owned…The expansion pack is Worth 20 – 25e,but since it adds the core game you have to pay more ? Am i getting this right… ?

You are getting it right but people will semantically spin it otherwise.

Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame.

We don’t know to full extent the entire HoT content. The new zones – how big and replayable will they be? Keep in mind that the standard edition price is realistically 60 (since pretty much everyone will want a new char slot) which as far as I remember makes it on par with the original game on release but with what seems like a fraction of the content.

They better put the char slots on sale before HoT. Even then it would be a rip off.

The gem store is all about outfits nowadays so if you are into outfits I guess the gems from the Ultimate would be nice. Since I absolutely hate outfits there is absolutely no reason for me to get that one since as you said the other stuff is lackluster.

I like the PvEvP nature of Stronghold but I don’t think it’s as good as Fort Aspenwood. I would prefer if Anet just copy-pasted Fort Aspenwood, Jade Quarry, Alliance Battles and Hall of Heroes directly into GW2. I don’t see a reason why they wouldn’t work great in GW2.

The best way to deal with these kittens is not say anything. It might be tempting to reply something like “Get out of your mom’s basement before talking to me” but don’t do it. If you reply they win. Their goal is to troll you and make you reply. So don’t say anything – that will drive them crazy.
Then they will try to whisper but if you go offline before pvp-ing they will just waste their time driving them even more crazy.
Then they will try to send a mail but if you keep your box full they will fail again and you will win.

I am having the same problem since the last patch. I get the stupid firewall message even in game, without d/c, just pops up. And then 2-3 mins later I get disconnected. Then I can’t log in for 2-3 minutes, then I do log in, play 10 minutes and get d/c again. Never had this problem before the last patch. It messed up something.

The best named boss in the game:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Skitt_Skizzle

Exactly what I am getting. Eternal loading screen only interrupted by the connection lost error message. How naive of me to believe that at least for the kittened season finale things will be OK.

Honestly, this is embarrassing.

As I was playing tonight, game lagged, got thrown out and can’t log in for 5-6 hours now. It’s telling me either that I can’t reach the server or that I have a campus firewall problem or occasionally I do log in but remain stuck at the loading screen of whatever zone my char is in. Hopefully, this gets fixed for the weekend.

To anyone saying to use the LFG tool to find a regular map, sorry but that’s bulkitten. 99% of the LFG is chest farm and LF Tormentor plx.

Olvendred.3027:

Suggestion: scrap the perseverance buff. Instead, give a buff that stacks up to 12, based on how many forts are held and how upgraded they are. Chest loot would be tied closely to this buff, so you’d get very little at low levels, but a bit more than now at the highest levels. Then add an extra level if you win at the Breach. The level of stacks at the end of breach lasts through Time Out. That way, people have to do the events to get the best chest loot, and you get far and away the most per key if you kill all the Champs in the Breach.

Best suggestion I’ve read. The current farm should only be possible on fully controlled and fortified map.

Actually, the reward system is great. If I wanted Zodiac armor I don’t have to grind some dungeon 100s of times or kill some boss over and over again. I can play whatever I want (wvw, pvp, dungeons, key farm, world boss, etc) to save up and buy it.

I dislike hotjoin because when I press Play Now 90% of the games are 3v2 or 4v3 with a score of 320:50. If I join the losing team someone joins the winning team immediately to keep up the status quo.
I dislike soloq because I have to wait way too long to get in a game.
The best middle ground would be Random Arena from GW1. You press Play and within seconds you are in a fair 4v4 random match.

Not happy with the unification of PvP and PvE armor. I liked using different sets – for example cultural t3 for PvE and a dungeon or gemstore armor for PvP. That way I never get bored with the looks. Now I can only use one (unless I spend charges every time).

Everything else sounds amazing.

1) Getting excited each Tuesday for an update or preview
2) The Molten Facility dungeon
3) The Marionette