Guild Wars 2

Was AFKing for a moment, once again near a cliff. Just as I came back I saw a thief rush towards me, he hit me before I could touch my keyboard, nightmare rune kicked in so he got feared off the cliff and died. Laziest kill I’ve had and I laughed my kitten off.

In my eyes the issue is that GW2 has so much potential, but the devs are not getting the best out of it. This leads to people being frustrated, but not enough to leave the game. As a result, people whine (as do I).

Furthermore, GW2 is aimed at casual gamers, and those are the worst when it comes to whining. They always feel entitled to everything and complain when things are “too hard” (while most PvE content is as easy as can be) and they feel entitled to getting the rewards anyway, so instead of improving, they whine.

Then there’s the bugs, the lack of keeping promises, and sometimes just flat out idiotic mistakes made by the devs.

Bartas.4908:

LA, Fort Mariner

Nope. The NPC doesn’t exist yet.

Thrown 2300G in the forge, not a single precursor. How about you? I’m sure you didn’t get a single one either. Oh wait you probably got like 3 using 100g.

I do have The Bifrost and The Incinerator, but I’ve had to grind my way there.

They play a pistol/pistol thief with pretty much no gear that dies constantly and CLICKS their skills. It wouldn’t be a pretty sight. There’s plenty of people streaming fractals 50 (like me) who do know how to play the game.

Now that the WvW season has pretty much ended, will the world transfer costs be reduced? I

Caom.9251:

I thought hoelbrak runes only reduced condition duration by 20%.

Do you mind if I ask where you got that 60% condition duration decrease from?

Food buff: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Lemongrass_Poultry_Soup

Yes please. I use my legendary in WvW and PvE and I really don’t want to keep switching between Bloodlust/Perception/Fire all the time. It would indeed make a legendary even more desirable.

Buy low sell high. That’s the basics. Now it’s up to you to figure out what to trade, only a fool would spill his exact trading secrets. http://www.gw2spidy.com/ might help you get started

Wethospu.6437:

Maybe they don’t expect anyone to reach 50?

Considering how bad they are at playing their own game that seems like a valid assumption to make.

If I had the time I’d be going for 50 in 1 day as well, but work n stuff

I’ve even seen people create “destroy instance” LFG topics: they merge their 2 man group with arah sellers to kick the instanceholder so he can’t sell his spots. Pretty kitten move if you ask me.

Wethospu.6437:

Sometimes the game just makes you lose your progress. That’s perfectly normal in Gw2.

i c wut u did thar

Also, be happy it was just cofp1, takes only 10 mins anyway. Haven’t run into the problem yet myself luckily.

Continue discussion here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fractal-personal-level-reset/

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/view/news/page/1/read/29156/Guild-Wars-2-Next-Updated-Called-Fractured.html

Just found this. Assuming this is real, why reset the level? I’ve worked my kitten off to get to fractal lvl 80, so on top of receiving TERRIBLE RNG rewards for ages and no gold for the only challenging content in the game, our level will be reset? Will there be any compensation?

As much as I’d love new fractals, this is just a kick in the balls. I don’t want my level reset for some leaderboards I don’t want.

In addition, it lists special challenges. What kind? If they’re anything like everything that has previously been added to the game that are called “achievements” it’ll be boring and easy just like the rest of PvE.

Levelling is the most boring thing in this game and I need my characters to be lvl 80 for WvW. Might as well level by doing something that at least yields some gold.

Someone just posted this, which basically sums up RNG, some ppl get everything, some people get nothing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKHAqP-t2cA

Same thing for me here, a few guildies keep pinging exotics in the guild chat while we’re raiding WvW, like 2-3 exotics for each of them almost every night. The last exotic I got was 2 months back, and it was an account bound one from Fractals. Also, I play around 4-5 hours a day, so it’s not that I don’t play.

Not only that, I’m running with 150% MF, and they’re only running with 30%.

Because of this I don’t even dare play the MF: I’m just too unlucky. Threw 400 rares in the forge before just for the hell of it, got 2 exotics, and now I’m broke.

RNG is just a kittening joke and like everyone else, I’m sick and tired of it.

Thanks for the GvGs yesterday DiVa, surprisingly without skill lag! 8-0 to PunK. Learned a lot from it, too, here’s an audience member perspective:

Victory.2879:

Terrible start by Gandara. Huge queues meant most of the regular commanders spent most of the evening sitting around in LA waiting for the queue RNG to pick a winner.

Guild raids refusing to tag up meant the ‘pugs’ had no one to bring them together as a force and hence the raids flipped a few things but didn’t really help the score that much whilst the ‘pugs’ milled around doing very little effective. As soon as the guild raids finished the score dropped even more, then as the queues diminished and more wvw regulars could get on we had a nice couple of hours 12-2am.

…

Exactly the same problem on FSP, half the guild got in, half didn’t. There was a queue literally within 3 seconds, so we tried to quickly join another border, half got in, then the queue turned out to be a bug and people got in the original border. So we just decided to say kitten it and we started at 23:30 or so.

Can’t wait for the PvE content to come next Tuesday, hopefully the achievement hunters will stop clogging up the queue then. At least for a while…

Amineo.8951:

- The elitism, the guys that only want level 80 people for dungeons, only warriors etc
- The selling spots that makes the LFG tool useless and researchs really hard because you’ll only find mediocre groups to do dungeons (wipe at spider queen in AC for example)

Lol. So you don’t expect a certain level (and with that gear) from someone, but you do expect groups to be good despite a certain required skill threshold?

Requiring level 80 has nothing to do with elitism, it’s just common sense. Be more realistic.

I think it might be best if the NSP people copy their thread into a new one, I don’t see this being fixed any time soon and I’d hate for you guy to be suffer from lack of recruitment due to a mod’s failure.

poepie.6570:

I have one question to FR and FSP.
Do you hate Underworld roamers that much or are you just afraid of us?

I think I have a reasonable explanation for that. Nothing to cap, nothing to do, stupid grinding achievement for capping 50 ruins, why not do it with the whole zerg? Of course it’s no fun for you, but yea we already know UW drew the short straw

I would like to add to this topic, for any American guilds looking to transfer, there’s plenty people to fight during the nights now considering the massive group of Americans that have recently transferred to Fort Ranik. Come and wipe them!

Well at first I thought this’d be fun, but yesterday was just waiting for people to show up in FR border to fight. Once they did, they were so few in numbers it wasn’t any challenge, so I nearly fell asleep with the whole FR border captured. UW showed no resistance, but we all know why this is, so can’t be mad about this.

Then when I finally got into EB, I found that the Americans had awoken. With still quite a few fellow FSP people awake at 3 to 4 AM the Americans wiped so easily, yet, knowing that I had to sleep at some point (4 AM) just made me sad. And indeed, I woke up with a score of 10k behind FR again. So basically, no fights during the day, easy fights till deep into the night, then being PvD’d during the night and morning and 10k pts behind: boring matchup.

I just hope we can find aZm somewhere, at least they put up a good fight.

flalus.5490:

Dear FSP,

ty for all the lootbags today on your bl (over 500)

Thanks for farming our PvE achievement hunters (those who weren’t afking in citadel all day). I hope next time they ragequit so we can get real players in there

Bump for FSP, we’ve recently also had [XxX] join our forces, welcome! We can obviously still use more awesome guilds!

Welcome Vengeance of the Fallen [VoTF] ! Time to pwn some borderlands together

Why write such a massive wall of text (with major spelling mistakes) for nothing?

haviz.1340:

Celly.5912:

You can level up by having someone with a higher lvl open it for you, and just do unevens so do you don’t have to face Jade Maw. You can still get to lvl 80 like that.

But for what? Cleansing Zhaitan’s corruption throughout whole Orr is much more fun and most important more rewarding. Not to mention it’s also challenging.

Because lvl 79 Fractals is the only challenging content in the game. Orr stuff isn’t a challenge :/ But Fractals has amazingly terrible loot though.

You can level up by having someone with a higher lvl open it for you, and just do unevens so do you don’t have to face Jade Maw. You can still get to lvl 80 like that.

MF doesn’t affect salvaging, so no, hoarding them doesn’t help.

Wolfheart.1938:

I am bad at X, thus Arenanet should never introduce anything for people that like and/or are proficient at X, else I will open a pointless complain thread on the forums even though they went as far as introducing an easy mode for less able players.

This. So much.

Please people for the love of god…this is 100% a case of L2P or just do something else you CAN do. Rise to the challenge for once instead of whining things need to be easier.

Just make sure you’re the one who starts the instance. Always. Problem solved. Can’t trust pugs :<

Unlike most “achievements” in this game, this is actually something you need to achieve rather than grind. If you can’t do it, become better at the game instead of whining at the forums.

The only time you’d need PVT is in WvW, and if that’s what it’s for, just buy them with badges of honor

Use tactics. L2dodge. Use other skills. Look up guides.

Try those before complaining while the rest of us laugh our way through shaman @ lvl 79

Elementalist here, scepter/focus full zerker, just lots of auto attacking on air while surviving with the other skills. Don’t forget food buffs for some extra damage.

Good stuff, turned out to be really easy like this, even on my mesmer with really bad gear. +1 for you

Eh, the Champion weapons are very much RNG. And after having killed approx 50 champions, I haven’t had a single one drop yet, of course.

Just whisper them and tell them what you’ve written here. Most people will say no problem and they can keep your inexperience into account. There are plenty of people willing to teach to that stuff. If someone doesn’t want an inexperienced player, no problem, you were being honest about it. If someone accepts you and starts raging, it’s his own fault: you did tell him. Just start playing

Feedback:

If you’re making a video like this, make sure you prepare what you’re going to say instead of jumping to random subjects and switching in between them. Secondly, at least show a demonstration of the drops you’re getting. Also, get to the point more quickly. Lastly, look stuff up that you’re not sure about: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/laurel?s=t

I lold

To me these guides seem more of a ‘what to do/where to go’ instead of a ‘how to do it’, which is unnecessary imo. It needs more tactics and tricks for these guides to be useful. It has some already, which is great, but it really needs more because people only look for guides if they don’t know how to do a certain section.

haviz.1340:

Celly.5912:

Yes please. The rewards for Fractals are just stupidly terrible. CoF p1 gives you 1g+ a run, taking 10 mins, while on Fractals 79, in a veeeeeeeeery quick run taking 1h15mins you get a bunch of garbage greens. Just implement everything OP mentioned + new fractals!

Veeeeeeeeery quick run takes about 40 minutes if you get short fractals like snowblind and volcanic.

I’d like to see you do that on level 79 :p

Yes please. The rewards for Fractals are just stupidly terrible. CoF p1 gives you 1g+ a run, taking 10 mins, while on Fractals 79, in a veeeeeeeeery quick run taking 1h15mins you get a bunch of garbage greens. Just implement everything OP mentioned + new fractals!

It’s tedious as hell in the beginning, but dodging the attack that spawns spiders seems to be the easiest way of doing it. We’ve tried with reflection stuff but lots of attacks go through, and the Recluse enemies have melee as well. Here’s how we did it:

http://www.twitch.tv/awsmcelly/c/2689877
1: Kill incoming spiders, keep dodging
2: Keep going till there a little spiders left, start attacking the boss
3: keep going: if something spawns because of a failed dodge, kill it and attack boss again

Tedious, but it works.

I’d prefer culling really. It’s much less frustrating than dying to upscaled PvE players because they just have 3 times the amount of people.

Anyone doing CoF p1 isn’t elite. Please stop using that word. They’re a bunch of nubblets who do the same stuff over and over and because of that they think they’re ‘good’.

And I keep telling people: don’t do pugs hmkay, pugs are bad.

Rank: r40
Amount of Tournaments 673
Highest Leaderboard Positioning: None. I did most of my tournies before leaderboards were there, then my team quit the game.
Guild(s) or Team(s) you previously belonged to: None worth mentioning in GW2. I did, however play top 10 for years and got 5 goldcapes in GW1 with [awsm], [DirT], etc.

We’ve played together before and it went very well, I liked the people too so it’s funny that I ran into this thread. I’m just tired of playing with bad pugs all the time. I play engi and ele. Pm me

The point I’m trying to make is that I’d like to have a skillbar full of signets, but because the signet activation themselves just don’t work properly it’s not worth it, which is a shame. Elementalist has some decent traits related to signets (like Written in Stone), but they’re not worth using because of the bad signet activation (yes I realize I’m repeating myself :p ). My plea therefore is for signets to be activated more easily.

Regardless of traits, apart from Signet of Air, signets are just useless. It’s useless to make a build around signets (in other words: use traits related to signets) because the signets themselves just don’t work properly. Signet of Earth, Fire, and Ice don’t work 9/10 times because the enemy has to be in a precise angle. In PvP with you and the enemy moving around constantly, this just isn’t going to work.

Anyone else have this frustration?