Guild Wars 2

i do not even understand the wording

Hi, recently returned to the game. With multiloot you mean the auric basin meta event? Are they changing the event or the chest looting in the end?

yeah i loath guard traps too but you guys really need to get a grip and stop exaggerating so much.

This is Meritel. I am surprised at times that sword 3 doesn’t make the pants fall off!

Taldren.7523:

Why can’t things settle down so we can sort L2P issues from things that are truly unbalanced. This sort of posts are not beneficial to anyone, let alone the game.

Removing Durability Runes because of Herald? How is a 1.9 second resistance every 20 seconds supposedly over powered? And the boon duration exists on many runes. I don’t get your argument at all.

this is the most reasonable post I have read here today

depends what pretty quick is. the question is, when we have much more people playing at prime time, why are the queues just as long as they are in the middle of the night? (And I have been playing a lot at nights recently)
Are we SUPPOSED to spend so much time standing around not even being allowed to use a mystic forge?

why is it that queue times are always about the same, no matter if i play at 4 am in the morning or on sunday afternoon? That seems really strange.

i disagree. i like it how it is

i can not understand how the revenant community is suggesting nerfs to themselves that seems stupid and masochistic.
Since HoT I have mostly played several classes in pvp. Almost all classes feel in a good spot right now (maybe with exception of thieves?). Revenants are certainly not the class that make me the most nervous in a pvp match. CC, Conditions and especially boon corruption rip them apart easily.
If any changes do come, I hope they do not destroy mechanics or whole weapons – mechanics of energy management are fun and weapons? we don’t have many of them.

How does one make money from world bosses? I never found my rewards enough to make up for the fact that for some bosses you have to camp the map to be in a successful tep or whatever fight.

i want it back too, they could add a checkbox like they did for stronghold

sadly I did not manage to record any video because my windows game bar is bugged.

I did play more matches however and the stomping problem is not isolated to stomping revenants.
I had the same problem with a thief today and a necro. I stomp, it completes but it does not succeed. No interrupt, CC on me etc. I stomp several times and eventually have to dps them down. If i can dps them down, it means they are where i think they are.

thanks for the replies. I do think that I let my stomps finish all the way.
Do they not cast slow with the auto attack? but then how can I cleanse it before stomping if they keep applying it? Slow is added mid cast, not only in the beginning, isn’kitten
I will see if I can record some matches where I am trying to stomp revs today so I can see if it is just a problem of not letting it finish etc.

Hi I have been playing since beta but had very long breaks and returned a bit ago and I have not been playing the necro for long. With sliders all the way back you mean low settings? Playing on a strong computer, I am playing at highest settings, maybe that is a mistake then? It is a shame though when we have to make the game less pretty in order to see what is going on.

So I love my reaper for PVP. What I really dislike though is the visibility I have in shroud. It looks really cool. All the animations are really well made in my opinion. However, I find it really hard to figure out what is going on. I sometimes overlook enemies on the ground.
I am surprised I have not heard that complaint before. Is everybody else just used to it?

Since HoT, stomping downed players has become weird. Especially stomping revenants. It is like their slow ability and some server lag prevents a successful stomp. It happens really a lot that on my screen I finish a stomp several times and he is still not dead!
And I am not talking about CC, interrupts etc. My ping is usually about 45ish, so it shouldnt be that. (I have noticed some lags in pvp though, I assume it is not on my end.)

For now I guess I will DPS them down if the situation allows it.. it has happened too often that I stomp and stomp and then he heals himself up and gets up!

I would be really interested to know if more people have problems with it. If this is not just me, this needs looking at!

yes my husband and i can not log in anymore either. the forum and the wiki are dodgy too

same for me

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on 4k displays a lot ui elements are too small or too far away from the center of the screen. The mini map especially is too small, so is the mouse pointer. It gets regularly “lost”.
We really need some more options.

When I have facet of nature active, I can not use shiro impossible odds because apparently I do not have enough energy, although I sit at 50% (see screenshot)
What am I missing, is this a bug?

380ish iirc and I am pretty sure it has an icd just like the ghost ones with crit. They are very expensive to craft as well, i think like 6g if you buy things straight from the trading post. i was underwhelmed.

I actually disliked her, found her annoying and if i could have just let her die, I would have. Not trying to sound mean here

This is simply wrong: “DH with his zero condi removal”. Smite condition, Absolute Resolution, Contemplation of Purity and I am sure I forgot something

My mouse pointer constantly disappears in GW2. This equally happens when I use fullscreen and windowed fullscreen. It is a bit easier to manage on fullscreen. The same happens to my husband, who has a similar setup but monitors of a different brand to mine.

Some clues:
- My setup: win 10, two 4k monitors, a third which is really a 27 cintiq but disabled / turned off when playing.
- When involving the mouse buttons in moving (for turning or for running with LMB and RMB pressed down), the mouse pointer likes to disappear and does not come back. GW2 is the only game I play but I work in a lot of different applications on this computer (zbrush, 3ds max etc) and GW2 is the only application where something like this (or remotely similar) happens.
- Sometimes I can find it again by moving it a lot and sometimes it does not come back until I press my F2 leap ability (i play a guardian). Then it magically reappears.

This can be pretty major problem. For instance, when it happend to me in the mordremoth fight, I stopped fighting and for a long time I just tried to get my mouse pointer back. I even asked my husband to step behind me to see if he can see the mouse which he could not. It is a nightmare in pvp as well.

Apart from this a lot of UI elements feel too small on a 4k monitor. In the new spvp map I can barely see anything on the mini map and i can not zoom in. Chat is readable on the largest setting but I would prefer it to be bigger.
I think it would be great to have more control over different UI elements, due to the small size of the UI on a 4k resolution, it is very hard to keep an eye on the party element of the UI

And please PLEEEASE allow to us to increase the size of the mouse pointer and even its colour <3

just wasted a lot of time because of a lot of bugs:

1. got the pale tree to 0% hp at which point she became invisible, untargettable with direct or aoe damage, kept damaging me, kept eating the sacrifices, nothing I can do to advance the fight.
2. I died , got back into the fight and the pale tree was just gone. I had to restart the instance.
3. mordremoth fight: the rift opens up mid air where I can not reach
4. mordremoth fight: I stand in the bubble but die anyway. I have to restart the fight, it happens again in the next attempt, what am I missing.
5. mordremoth fight: I have lost all willpower and give up in the first minute of the fight, when he is still doing his “massive aoe”: too much frustration, I stop every action and just stand there, letting him beat me up. His “massive aoe” that I had carefully avoided in previous attempts, can barely overcome my regeneration. It takes him a long time to kill me although I am not doing anything. That and his visiual appearance are really disappointing, I had imagined something more scary and impressive to be honest.
I loved the expansion up to this point, apart from the hero point requirements I was really happy. The second half of the story though is really weak. Quest steps that feel like they are only there to make the story feel longer. The “hearts and minds” then is so bad with all it’s bugs, i do not understand how it could have been released.

I do not understand people who can not make a spec that works with the new zones.
I am a returning player, I consider myself a casual player in exotic armor and not even terribly skilled but I love that the new zones are difficult. They inspire me to explore.
I love what anet have done, I think this is the best expansion I have seen in an mmo.
Apart from hero points for elite specs, which I would have prefered to be free instead, I do not feel there is a need to grind because you can play the game even when you decide not to. In any other game I played there was more grind: grind to get to max level, crafting, raiding the same content for months and months just so that every raid member can upgrade their gear (and then it gets replace shortly after with a new expansion). Here they basically give you level 80 and exotics for free. Why are you complaining? Are people that want content they can invest time in for rewards not allowed to have fun too?
I am sorry but the fact that you (the OP) were trying to avoid being disappointed makes me think you were not having a very positive attitude to begin with but instead expecting that if you were getting hyped you would just be disappointed anyway.
Also you were worried about the new player experience in the new zones but there are so many zones that are extremely easy.
I can understand that you are worried about a game you love but I do not think you have to be. There are a lot if people who love the expansion. The happy people might just be more busy playing.

You sure that is true?

I opened bags with 500 ish magic find including food, utility and other stacking buffs and I got many crystals. Just because one is yellow and the other is pink does not mean that the drop chance from event bags is higher.

for pvp, the reaper shroud 4 and 5 abilities have a huge cast time and animation which means it is easy to interrupt or dodge.

thanks that helps

returning player here so please excuse my confusion .. My characters are mostly old characters that I leveled not long after the original launch of GW2.

According to the wiki there are 398 level reward points (i assume old characters got them as well). Then are are 213 hero challenges in the world.

I need 340 more points to unlock the reaper fully for my lvl 80 necro. Where do I get them from?

aww what a shame, i wont be able to play most of that time

When will the Halloween event end this year? With all the nice new stuff in game it would be lovely it could be at least 3 weeks

people insulting each other is something i have seen a lot since coming back to the game a few days ago. This morning i entered the pvp lobby and some people had an argument going on, I joined a match and two different guys had a different argument with a ton of insults going on. Literally a match later some guy i must have killed started insulting me in tells about my apparently easy to play spec. Though I didn’t care and simply put that guy on ignore, I must say I did not enjoy the whole experience. Add to that people constantly leaving the games and it was a bit much and I logged off.
Dont know if that was just a bad coincidence of people arguing or if this is a result of the game now being free to play or unhappiness about the state of pvp as a whole or people just feeling a teeny bit too anonymous behind their screens.
So I get it, hotjoins isn’t what I expected it to be, that’s cool, just hope I will find matches in the arenas since I am mostly playing very early in the day.

ok thanks i will see how that works out for me

what is the best for someone who queues solo? unranked?

Hi
so i recently returned to gw2. It seems to be a huge problem to me how many people leave the hotjoin matches as soon as they sense a slight imbalance or fear they can not win anymore. (It is funny though that often after they leave and somebody else joins, their team wins after all.)
This situation is fun for no-one, is anything going to happen about this? with the expansion maybe?
I know I could join the other spvp mode (arena i think its called?) but I don’t enjoy the long waiting times.

to those who say it is too easy, how comes I have seen many people fighting her but not even one killing her? The closest I have seen was 20% or so.
So i am not saying nobody is killing her but it seems to be a minority.

Meglobob.8620:

The festival is great overall and I am really enjoying it! Making a ton of gold and getting loads of rewards via tokens that I missed earlier.

So a BIG THANK YOU TO ANET for this festival!

The only medicore, substandard part of it is the boss blitz which is far, far worse than last year. This part was all about the rewards and without them its pointless. A lot of other players seem to agree with me ingame because its a ghost town with just a few paltry players struggling on there own to do the bosses and just repeatedly dieing over and over again. They probably want the achievement points to complete the meta.

Thankfully, I am not bothered about the achievement points and you can keep the meta reward of 1600 tokens + 1 special token because I can spend my time doing other parts of the festival which reward me 100’s of gold and probably give me 10,000+ token by the end of the event, plus load more goodies. Its also more importantly enjoyable to do, so no chore or grind!

A tip for everyone, figure out where the ‘true’ rewards are and forget the direction Anet try to point you in…

How is it possible to make a ton of gold in this update and what content is it you enjoy much? Maybe i am missing things, i feel like there is barely anything to do. Or did i miss the sarcasm in it?

Im very unhappy about how the boss blitz works:
- we need to pay gold to start it
- the success / reward depends on the amount of people in the zone, which we have no control over
- the success / reward depends on our ability to organize pugs without good tools of communication
- it takes an insane amount of time in which you basically dont get loot to keep you going

this is very disappointing and and slap into our faces. it is as if the developers had never listened to us when we gave feedback to the various living story parts.

even after reset i am still capped. this is really disappointing. i wouldnt mind playing in the arena, if there wasnt so much waiting around.
Shame.. surely there must be a better way to prevent botting :/

I didnt think much of this change until I started leveling a new character. Boy leveling is boring now. Levels dont seem to mean much apart from you have to buy gear to keep up your crit chance etc. This is not a good change.

I only enjoy pretty humanoid races, I am boring that way. Asura is humanoid enough for my taste but only because they are cute and very small. Running feels faster for them.
My partner on the other hand enjoys anything not human.
Ideally I would love to see something humanoid and pretty and something that is exactly the opposite, that way everyone should be happy.

for me the living story makes the game worse. That might just be me so i can not say that it hurts the game.
I would much much rather have an expansion.

Why do you expect level 80 players to carry you to lvl 80?
Get active, start a party and announce it in LFG. People usually join fast and lvl 80ies (me included) might join you as well. Nobody can complain then, after all they knew what they would get when they joined you.

Leveling to 80 is really not that big of a grind anyway, even without dungeons. Level in different zones rather than sticking to one, get the different skill points and waypoints and do hearts you come across, especially those that can be completed by doing an event. That way you get much more XP.

Levelord.5746:

Wow, talk about a thread filled with massive entitled whiners. You guys have no idea how hard it is to program a game, let alone an MMO.

So basically you are saying the programming of MMOs is too hard for the developers of this game?

I dont care about stories and did not pay attention to this one, so i can not rate story at all.

So not bearing story in mind at all, it was a failure in my opinion. I have been more annoyed than I enjoyed myself. My reasons in no particular order:

It frustrates me when I can not do content because the overflow i am stuck in does not have the right amount of people. That is not how it should be. I started out being a fan of the overflow idea and now I really hate it because I dont think its done well (e.g. no progression into the next best overflow, no chance to play with friends unless they travel to the bad overflow etc, guests taking spots in the main zone of our server etc).

I I think expecting that we organise 100 strangers or more in order to get to the next step of an event is naive, especially when you do not give us no tools other than map chat for communication. (If it was not overflow we could use TS..)

I also can not understand how loot bugs can take days to fix. Then drop rate of the cores… I still have not seen any core drop, yet people claim they drop a lot and are even worth farming? Then again apart from some cash I might make with it on the TP, i dont care about it because i dont want to display a back piece that looks like spiderlegs, no matter what colour it might have.

Bearing the problems of empty overflows in mind, I really do not understand how – after some patches – you force us to split up for the different fights.

I think that the mechanics of the fights are quite fun – in theory. The fun then gets ruined by the amount of HP of the encounters though. It just takes too long and feels repetitive.

I really like GW2, the LS has not ruined the game for me, but i am glad that this content does not stay because i rather see people doing content I enjoy myself as well.

people keep talking about these cores. I have yet to see one!

cant believe this is not fixed yet