Guild Wars 2

confirmed: i just beat the fight, then dc’ed at the end.

Laz: you did not stay me then you will not stay me now.

Game DC’s

Laz you cheater you. lol

i actually liked it… a lot.

Sure it was a little all over the place but that’s how they’ve done all the living world stories so far. They give a few answers and a lot of new questions. Closure? Ha come back a few seasons or expansions from now.

I am curious as to why balthazar returned? Where has he and the others been all this time? Why does he suddenly not care about us or tyria?

mad props to the artists, orr is beautiful this time around, especially the lyssia zone. and loved the giant waterfall.

now if they can just fix the lag and dc bugs so i can actually finish laz off fairly ^^ (keep dc’ing after i beat him)

So just beat him on my thief… wasn’t fun but at least i could Shadow Refuge Livia to res her dead self easily.

Dialogue starts " you did not stay me then you won’t stay me now." Goes to get sword, to finish him, game DC’s…

Good call Laz…lol

ps: sadly i did not get credit for beating it since the instance wasn’t over, so yay i get to do it all again now… sigh

Also can’t log in. Keeps saying something about a firewall and restart the client. Restarted the client and my internet router and pc and nothing is fixing it.

So GoT has the “nights watch” and that is actually pretty cool. Helps they have an awesome ice wall, wear all black and have cool capes, and vows.

That being said I still don’t know why we just can’t name our fort ourselves, or our guild. Fort Trinity, Dragon’s Watch, has no real meaning to me.

Now something I can name like ragnorak, the twin towers, shadowknights, dark flames, that may mean something to me.

Every single one of these fails, even with small or big groups, just seems like not enough inquest die or they collect it to fast. Even after i got the collecting/donating achieves and just kill like crazy, still fails. They need to tone this down especially since its became inactive.

anninke.7469:

Redenaz.8631:

http://dulfy.net/2016/07/26/gw2-out-of-the-shadows-developer-ama-on-reddit/#Living_World

Number 7 addresses this. Lore-wise, it’s possible Sylvari don’t have an developed funeral/memorial culture. Practically speaking, it didn’t make sense to have two memorial sequences slowing down the start of LS3.

I like Trahearne as much as anyone, but Eir’s memorial was enough reflection to kick off the new season.

I went and read the link… It made me cringe again. Such a big smelly heap of bullkitten that is!
I still can’t understand, when the heck did some mostly urelated Norn lady become the PC’s close friend regardless of the fact that non-Norn PC doesn’t even meet her much. If I didn’t read wiki and lore forum threads, I’d barely notice her. How is she so much more important for all the Sylvari toons than Trahearne?
“The world mourns Trahearne (yeah, in backstage, right?), so you don’t need to do that, deal with it…” Really?
Oh c’mon Anet, do you realise you make no kittening sense at kittening all?
At this very moment I deeply hate whoever came with this moronic idea and even more moronic “explanation”.
Although I like the rest of the update quite a lot, this ruins it for me big time.

gw2 is 4 years old. Its assumed in the story that you actually did the content by now. A large part of which is all the dungeon paths. In which case you see the other races hero’s quite a bit. You also team up with the entire destiny’s edge to kill zhaiten.

But yes I still think he should have a funeral. The culture is young is a horrible excuse. The reality is they didn’t want to waste resources on that atm. which is fine as long as we get one later. Even our beloved gw1 gwenn just got a simple grave, which is better than nothing.

treehearne has grown a lot on me over time. At first I had the typical who is this guy and why is he the leader instead of me reaction (why most people don’t like him) But its a good story and after replaying several times he grew on me a lot. You have the simple task of killing an elder dragon (well not simple but like caithe stated at least its a tangible foe) he has to heal a land devoured by an undead plague and doesn’t even know IF it can be healed or not. Also if you play as a sylvarri you actually meet treehearne a lot earlier in the game and do several missions together, so you actually grow as friends way before the pact stuff.

Hated the event a few days ago, it never worked and there was little information out there and lots of misinformation too.

Did all of them today and it worked perfectly. Shows when dead too which was my biggest complaint so that’s awesome. I know a lot of people complained and whined the 1st day but seriously great job fixing it all so fast.

I feel like levvi’s device is useless. Double click it, says this event is up, go to all the maps and ask if its up, finally find the correct one and its dead already.

They should make the bosses spawn a lot more frequently, give them more health, or better make them invulnerable for a few minutes like in wvw so people have time to actually get to them, and here’s an idea, how about instead of guessing what map they are on just put them on one map everytime, or put them on all the maps they spawn on so it takes the guess work out of it. Nothing like waiting for hours and being on the wrong map.

The old legendaries are a ton easier to get. Currently have 7 old and 1 new. Most of the old ones are also a lot cheaper. Some of the old precursors are super cheap too if its not one of the more popular ones.

Also HoT legendaries have to be earned. They are account bound. The old ones can literally be bought with enough gems to gold.

Dana windfelt.8160:

Already noted here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Removal-of-God-Walking-Amongst-Mere-Mortals

Umm they remove gwamm and champion of the gods titles and they should expect 100’s of angry posts. Not just one thread. People literally have played gw and gw2 for over a decade now and poured countless time into both games to earn those.

Logged out and logged back in worked for me too.

Also of note it didn’t effect just gwamm but “Champion of the Gods” title too which was much harder to get as gwamm itself was just a mere stepping stone on the path to that one.

clarkcd.6532:

Log out and log back in. Fixed it for my wife.

This did work thanks. Any idea what caused it?

Just got my hope a few weeks ago and love it. Well worth the time and some frusteration. Really the only things I hated were finding an arrowhead (the one I needed turns out usually spawns right before or during the tarir invasion so that helped), vinewrath legendary ( felt like the invasion always started while I was finishing up the pre-events) and the legendary wizard in orr b/c I would just always miss him (after almost a week of trying to jump around getting different bosses finally I just camped orr and waited) The COE pre-event boss you have to fight to unlock coe was annoying too b/c we always had control of coe and took forever to get a map that didn’t.

Once you get the few hard ones though its really not that bad from there. Hang in there and good luck.

Logged in to do my daily tonight and i got a weird email saying a golem made a mistake and my God Walking Among Mere Mortals title was gone.

Thinking this had something to do with the new living world season 3 thought maybe this was a joke but checked my achievements and its really gone…

Also my Champion of the Gods title is also gone and that was much more difficult to get as you had to get 50/50 hall of monument points while Gwamm was only 30 max titles.

I’ve played gw and gw2 since prophecies and have put countless time into both games and am seriously upset. It’s always been my account, never let anyone else use my account, never bought in game gold or ectos from anyone other than gw1 costumes and gw2 gems from the official stores. I have pics and videos of me winning in HA (hero’s ascent), having a DOA (domain of anguish) speed clear record on youtube. etc. Can’t believe this is happening.

I’m freaking out over here too. I got the same email and my gwamm title is gone. And my 50/50 hom title Champion of the Gods title is gone too.

I played gw1 since prophecies and earned every title and put countless hours into it. From vanguishing, to dungeons, to grinding kurzicks ranks and 100% map exploration rubbing tyrias walls for hours to get that 1%. No idea if this is a bug or something to do with the new living world season 3 but this is really upsetting!

So did the last quest hearts and minds, killed mordremoth, finished him etc. Got to the dialogue where treehearne asks you to kill him with his sword, got dc to character select, log back in, and didn’t get credit for hearts and mind and now need to do it again.

I have a great connection so don’t think that’s it, and didn’t dc once all fight or the few hours i did wvw before that.

Just curious what the best way to quickly get karma is now? I just finished my 7th legendary (twilight, sunrise, eternity, bolt, incinerator, and the ascension) last night and first tier 2 legendary (HOPE) and i’m officially out of karma and obi shards (dang u fulgurite)

So is it still SW or EotM? I know HoT events especially DS meta gives a ton of exp, but since all my masteries are full in core and hot that’s irrelevant for me, just curious does DS give a ton of karma too, or just do all the events in VB or SW ot Eotm? Or is there somewhere else even better? (Maybe do fractals again?)

update: never mind, I salvaged a different exotic I just transmuted in the wardrobe. Thank goodness.

That being said its still a bug b/c the warning message popped up that said, warning this is a very rare or valuable weapon, or something close to that, are you sure you want to salvage it. Maybe we shouldn’t put those on transmuted items b/c it totally freaked me out.

So I salvaged my exotic research like the wiki said and I didn’t get spirit of research. Instead I just received a superior sigil of leeching, 1 mithril ore, and 1 glob of dark matter, 1 potent venom sac and 1 large bone.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spirit_of_Research

I used a black lion salvage kit if that helps any.

Would like this bug fixed asap and my research exotic back as that costs I believe 35 ascended mats and was very expensive. Or given the appropriate spirit of research item instead.

X T D.6458:

You can buy memories of battle and shards of glory on the tp if you don’t want to do wvw. You can also go to eotm but the track will progress slower. There is also a new guild hall boost to make a reward track progress up to 10% faster. Unlike before where you could simply buy the Gift of Battle without ever really spending any time in WvW, you actually have to now, this is a way of making the legendary process go across gamemodes.

holy crap ty. lol lets see spend 10g on a stack of 250 of them or farm forever for a month or 2 for the same amount. When you can easily get 10g in pve in a few hours or less.

You’re my hero <3

Just curious, maybe its b/c yaks bend isn’t very active but it seems like it takes forever to progress in the reward track especially compared to pvp reward track. Not sure how long its supposed to take but after 1 afternoon of doing wvw and getting 5 memories of battle seems quite silly.

Also just curious why do we need a gift of war and a gift of battle. Seems quite repetitive don’t you think.

except for the fact if you weren’t raiding already you can’t do them with anyone. Say you were busy getting your pvp backpiece or HOPE. well you’re screwed raid wise.

Maybe the party leader did it before the group joined him as a group since he was already sitting in the map. We never voted on it.

It doesn’t matter now, ended up getting it in a lv 32 group a few hours later.

Need to kill bloomhunger for the h.o.p.e. 1 collection. Wiki says it spawns on fractal 2, did a fractal 2 and got mossman instead. Not sure if its a bug or random now and information is outdated, but could use some help figuring out how to get said item.

Going to try a lv 32 run now.

How do you keep your rife from overheating? AND is there an actual real GUIDE somewhere? Most of the youtube videos just post a successful run and the famous video skips over a minute of content. Would love to see a guide or video where they exactly explain what to do.

The problem with rev…

It just needs more utility skills options lol. That and maybe a decent ranged pvp weapon.

Saiyan.1704:

And i’m over here like,

keep going. It’s not as hard as it seems. Your main goal is to get to the final achievement progress this season if you can so it will be much easier to cross the 4 divisions next season. If not done this time I think its impossible. (but theoretically you can still get an ascended back if you make it to the 3rd tier I believe)

At the beginning of the season it was only necro necro and occassionally a scrapper. Thankful we see some warriors, thieves and mesmers again.

Oh and winning team has ele of course

ninjasasuke.1640:

Chrono.6928:

Title says it all. If you got your wings and want to show it off some go right ahead. Even better if it matches your armor or a theme somehow.

I’ll start it off. I’m flying

Cool idea man. I like your flying item combo. Adds that extra touch.

Here’s mine.

Thanks. Wow I really like you matching that armor to your sylvarri’s skin color. I think that’s the 1st time I’ve seen that armor actually work. Here’s my rev.

Title says it all. If you got your wings and want to show it off some go right ahead. Even better if it matches your armor or a theme somehow.

I’ll start it off. I’m flying

harold.3526:

many guilds took a break of recruiting because of the new raid wing, but they will start recruiting again soon, there are many raid teaching guilds.

Btw i believe most raiding guilds have more than one raiding group and were recruiting and should start recruiting again soon.

Where do they recruit at? Never see any in VB. Every now and then I see a recruitment for pvx in divinities reach or lions arch that goes something like this “PvX guild recruiting! We do pve, dungeons, fractals, pvp, wvw, raids, farming, etc etc.”

But when you ask about raids they go sorry we’re full. We’re just recruiting casuals to boost our #‘s and contribution. Not to mention most guilds don’t even play with each other anymore except for maybe wvw.

fishball.7204:

I think 150 is fine because it mirrors the length of the PvP backpiece and you’re getting a full set instead of just the backpiece.

60 days for the PvP backpiece, 3 games per day.

Fractal backpiece was around 1.5 months of fractal dailies, every day which is around 42 days.

Assuming you do 1 wing per day that’s 3 days / week -> ~17 weeks which is approximately 51 days of your time although it is over a longer period of time overall.

It seems fair when you compare it that way.

There’s definitely the time gate factor since weeks are gated weekly but I feel the total effort overall of 150 LIs is fine.

except you could pug pvp and solo que, you can’t solo que raids and most pugs aren’t going to do a full clear.

Hunter.4783:

I simply wanted to take a moment and say how great the 3rd wing is. From the environment to the boss design

The raid team has completely outdone themselves

Xera boss fight is jaw dropping the first time you attempt her.

I am seriously impressed by your hard work.

Keep it up!

Except I heard new raiders still can’t find groups to raid with. Thus only fun for a very limited # of players in game.

I never see pugs anymore, and heard the few pugs all want titles and stuff. I tried pugging the first few weeks raids it came out but back then no one had even beat the 1st boss yet, and when one guild finally did most pugs still couldn’t obviously. Then had to take a break b/c of school and work.

Lately I focused on pvp, got my legendary backpiece, and getting more mastery points. Would love to get into raiding, I raided on wow hard mode for many years and enjoy gw1 and gw2 way more than wow. I also did uwsc, fowsc, and doasc groups 24/7 on gw1 so I enjoy elite content.

I currently have full ascended/legendary gear on my rev and am working on ascended gear on my thief and necro. Watched several guides to get caught up.

But I heard no one raids anymore and those that do aren’t looking for new players. So basically if you’re wanting to get into raids its impossible? This is a pretty screwed up system. Even back in the day when high lv fractals were harder there were beginner, average, and pro groups, and even dungeons way back in the day before nerfs and buying runs there were still options for new players to learn and enjoy the content.

Again I love hard content, not complaining about that, just complaining about either the system or the community. Never see any guilds recruiting for raids in map chat or people teaching either. I used to help teach dungeons all the time b/c I found it fun and rewarding to help others. Hopefully I’m wrong and some guilds are still recruiting and some people still help others.

I do have a suggestion for the “pro guilds.” How about having more than 1 raid team. A core team and a B team or more. Than have once or 2x a week training nights, maybe have a few of the core team help out the B team on training nights. We did this all the time in wow and it was very successful and helped everyone be happy and enjoy the content more. Also raised the raid experience of the guild as a whole, so when members left the guild, quit playing, had to cut back on playing, got sick etc, it was much easier to find an alternate to fill in because you already had a whole group of friends who know the content.

Look what they really need to do to boost #‘s in pvp is do what they did in gw1 and have more types of pvp, some hard core and some casual for pve’ers to get into it. It had RA, TA, FA,JQ, AB, HA, and guild wars… lol.

Bring in some more fun new maps like conquest, make it very casual friendly, like wvw but in a small scale say 10 or so. No big deal if you lose just enjoy the cool new maps. And keep enticing the hard core players more in the high end pvp. Oh and bring back guild wars to guild wars 2.

And give better rewards to keep people playing. More gold, more t6, or even better more unique weapons and armor besides just 1 back. Make a cool unique pvp only thief, mes, ele, warrior etc armor for each class that you can only get by doing well in pvp with that class, enough carrots on sticks should keep people playing more. 1 back piece is cool but its like ok now what afterwards. If they made unique weapons like fractal weapons that you had to earn over time (like the back piece but maybe easier, could be grinded) It would keep players playing much more.

MadVisions.4529:

the less counterplay your build’s moves have the optimal it is in gw2.
could we get rid of some game mechanics bypassing broken designs please? At this point i can’t name a class which isn’t full of these, so you can choose where to start. Every step in this matter would decrese the rotting of the pvp community.

If you need help in the process send me an e-mal.

Cheers and i wish you greate success!

I like counterplay but I think this game needs more of it. For instance ele and scrapper obviously counterplay projectiles, but what counterplays scrapper? Answer isn’t as obvious.

Thief counter plays ele sure enough, but ele sticks with team fights which most thieves don’t do well in, thus counter negated.

tomwcb.9713:

I’m sorry to hear that you have wasted dozens of tomes needlessly!

The tutorial takes what, 5 or 10 minutes? Really not a big deal.

Even shorter on a human as you can just run around the castle and skip several phases and go straight to the boss.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

OP is incredible lucky. Normally the downside of playing ele is: you meet stubborn (not so good most of time) ele’s that don’t want to switch. Result: either YOU LOG or you loose. Unless the other ele has a surprise dps build, or your dps is like top tier in skills (and can sort of fight 3 vs 4 dps (with double ele as support), it won’t work and you’ll loose. Especially in the lower mmr tier brackets.

So it is 40% matches on ele (you alone ele in team) and 60% matches ‘switch to other prof you play very well or go home’.

Usually I didn’t meet any other eles on my team till at least ruby. And if they weren’t that great its still an op build so shouldn’t matter.

What I normally did was, and worked really well almost every time, if we had double ele and they didn’t switch I just switched to power shiro b/c its incredibly strong and also provides nice group buffs, and its weakness is condi bomb but with an ele on my team if I stuck near it often condis weren’t an issue (and I had staff as my 2nd weapon if i needed it or a nice knockdown and block too) Thus now we had 2 very strong players supporting mid in different ways, usually guarantying a win in a team fight.

Hunter.4783:

Negative . DH is trash tier. Weakest class by far. If anything they need all traps to be insta cast and they still would remain trash tier.

Your suggestion is flawed

Nah, its typical mmo balancing. Previous season such and such class is op, they get nerfed hard. Probably to hard, other classes get nice buffs, such and such class now sucks.

Next season maybe scrapper, condi necro, and ele will see more nerfs and warriors.

Personally I would prefer they buff other things to make more builds viable. Like buff power necro to = condi necro and give choices.

Syric.1936:

Jorah.2389:

Hi all,

1) Put the kitten pvp backpack on unranked also. The pve players who love shinny stuff will for sure queue for unranked because its easier and they can grind that kitten like clearing a map in pve.

This is a great idea. I approve of it – you have my vote on this one!

BTW – your English is fine.

Or make a lot more shiney stuff and give better rewards at higher levels to encourage pvp and to encourage the pros who already have it to come back for more cool rewards. Imagine something like all the dungeon armor sets, heck lets just say 1 awesome armor set per class, should be simple enough. But you have to earn it like the backpiece. Between alts that should keep the playerbase busy for a while and incentive to keep playing. Especially if the higher tiers you get the more t6 mats u get, or the more gold, or even ascended mats or higher rate of ascended armor and weapons. Or new weapons like fractal weapons for pvp. Just more carrots on sticks other than just 1 backpiece and a title.

Just curious what everyone’s plans are? Will you go back to HoT and grind masteries? WvW? Raid? Level Alts? Pvp on alt accounts?

Personally I will be finishing my mastery to get HOPE or the new bow for my thief. Then catching up on netflix and some wii u and xbox one games like zelda, destiny and ESO.

Might raid some too after I finish my last 2 ascended armors if I can find a group or do fractals for that legendary backpiece (I love the pvp on my girl toons but would prefer the fractals one on the male ones)

What are you all planning after you get yours or are doing already if you have it?

Sorel.4870:

Everyone knows you need an ele to win in this game. In every team-based game you lose without a support. Since auramancer in the only support build in the game, ele=win

Yes and no. Its the best support available. Even other dps classes like power shiro are also support b/c they buff the party.

I wouldn’t say everyone knows b/c apparently a lot of people in mapchat still don’t know, maybe the forum users who tend to be more active or at least take more initiative. Now if you’re an exp player with LoL or something then yes I would expect you to know the significance or a strong support.

I wouldn’t say ranger is bad. I would say its just the current meta team builds. Assuming other team has an ele, scrappers etc bows are useless. Maybe sword/torch or something could be decent but even then other builds are just easier to play at lower levels.

Also a lot of your burst (assuming longbow) is like a thief’s dual pistol on unload. Sure it does great damage but it can be easily evaded with just dodge.Only really good when you are +1’ing and they are fighting in mid and don’t see u coming.

Sazukikrah.5036:

More of a debate topic rather than an actual question. But along with any other class that has traps. Do you think Dragon hunter traps should have a cast time? The only two that don’t have an actual cast time is test of faith and fragments of faith. Its like when Stealth gyro could be used during Crowd control , and basically a free “get up” or stun break card was activated. Generally most dragon hunters run the trait piercing light which can daze on trap activation , thus them being able to place a trap even during a stun and be able to daze the attacker as well , if they don’t have stability . I think adding a cast time would increase the level of skill needed to play dragon hunter , just like when the developers added a cast time to Revenant’s infused light . So it wouldn’t be used as a “stun breaker” essentially . Thought’s? comments?

This actually seems like a fair point. Dh traps are way better than thief or ranger traps.
To the people commenting, they could “nerf” this area by adding a cast time, but buff other areas like heals or damage or blocks to make it more balanced within the meta.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Shh, don’t tell the community what they already know. It’s a secret.

~EleOPfo’life.

A lot of the community knows, a lot are still absolutely clueless judging by mapchat.

xeonage.1253:

Healing is kitten for PVP. This game almost become WOW.

Nah, you don’t stand behind pillars and run around pillars all game. And there isn’t pvp gear vs non pvp gear to give pvp’ers an advantage if they grinded first. And max levels can’t kill low levels in the world map.

Seriously though, ele ftw.

reroll ele. Not joking. worked for me.

Fames.5389:

Playing through ranked games this season more than any other I have noticed how it has truly become a requirement to have an ele on your team in order to win games.

For me this season has become truly frustrating as most games the outcome can be determined incredibly quickly at the onset depending on team composition – who has an ele, who got stuck with an ele running zerker staff/fa, which team has the dps that pairs well with ele to run mid.

The only thing I can compare this to is looking at the team comp last season and inwardly sighing at whichever team had a warrior.

It’s true. I was stuck in the 50/50 ratio, then rolled ele and had 10+ win streaks often till i got my legendary. I never even pvp’ed with ele before and barely know the class outside of using ice bow for aoe in dungeon speed runs. The healing build is super strong and easy to learn. Basically water to heal, earth for defense, air for offense and sometimes fire for aoe and might stacks for team. But heck often I could just stay in earth or air and use my heal to keep team alive.

I’m not going to scream nerf it, b/c I know how to counter it, but its still very very op. Well maybe not ele in itself but just the 5 person matchmaking system in itself. 4 dps and 1 heal > 5 dps. Unless the opposing team is good at sides and rotating and spiking targets which luckily most pugs are not. I heard a joke on mapchat but found it so true. The team with the ele wins.

That being said finally got my backpiece!