Guild Wars 2

This would be an interesting elite specialization and weapon.

Needed exactly 2 days.

I had already piled up loads of mats of all kinds ever since HoT release, because i wanted to craft a legendary but didn’t like the first three. So Chuka was my last chance, I rushed through the collections within 2 days and crafted it right away.

(In fact, I had so many mats that i crafted Astralaria as well only 5 days later, as it was still the best of the first three.)

I had the same problem, but found an easy fix.
I had the graphic settings for character model limit on lowest to improve performance. When i raised it to low, everything was fine again. Performance-wise, there is not really a difference between lowest and low.

I dont know, none of those 3 names seems fitting, and i just couldn’t vote for one of them. All three names are “epic”, but these guys are more like a gang of psychos, not a band of legendary heroes. That doesn’t mean that i hate them, but if i had to choose a name, it would be something like The Drama Queens, or The Wasted Bunch.

Antinegative.4872:

Claridiana.5230:

Here is a gallery someone posted on reddit. If you are not able to see the effects (like someone pretended above) you should definitley get glasses or a new monitor.

There’s been entire youtube videos and galleries dedicated to showing everything the bow has to offer since the day of release, so don’t act like the visuals are only privy to a select special few who has the bow, and throwing insults at other people does not change the fact that most agree this is a very underwhelming legendary, especially one that’s been so hyped, which also happens to be the last legendary to be made for HoT.

Your name together with the things you write show clearly that you are a troll.

And your negativity about the bow is even more ridiculous given the fact that there are now even threads with complaints that the bow and the journey are TOO GOOD, and that other legendaries should be buffed accordingly. Just lol.

I have Chuka, and i think they got it just right with the effects. They are manyfold and clearly visible, yet not too flashy (which has caused adverse comment on other legendaries like the dreamer):
-footprints (with explosion animation and patterns on the ground)
-spectacular drawing animation with two large tiger spritis jumping on you
-flames sparkling around the bow
-flame trail when you run with the bow drawn
-red aura
-tiger spirit projectiles (different on all skills and classes)
-parts of the bow are glowing when used (tiger eye and some of the “branches” of the stave)

Here is a gallery someone posted on reddit. If you are not able to see the effects (like someone pretended above) you should definitley get glasses or a new monitor.

http://imgur.com/a/VMKkW/

And a screenshot of my chuka while running. These effects are just perfect!

And don`t forget, you also get a personal instance you can access from everywhere with a clickable item, where you can chill and play with your tigers.

I just finished Chuka, and i think it looks awesome. The flame animations look like fiery wheels when you run. It is the perfect weapon for my female norn condi ranger.

Dante.1508:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Dante.1508:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Meta refers to the large event on a map that people do once they’ve finished all the pre-req events beforehand. As they are large group events, his point is they would be difficult to solo.

Maps can have meta events and still include soloable content and even other soloable events. Core Tyria maps did this very well – plenty of solo content and a large meta world event for those that want to group up.

(Strange use of Meta by the way)
But there are never enough people on the maps to do them, so the content sits there pretty much useless just to appeal to a small minority that may or may not want to do them?

The rest just ignore the content and move on, because they have no choice.

I see people doing the Hirathi Hinterlands meta every time I’m in the map. Same with other maps, say….Silverwastes.

I don’t think all meta content is ‘useless’. Probably just depends on the map, and who’s there.

Which is all true but not Heart of Thorns… its all old content you listed, Hot is dead where i am.

Then you must have some kind of social awkwardness (too many fractals played? :P)
because it is not dead where i am. It is no problem to get into a map where the meta is being completed.

Well, the Charr on this pic (from GW2 twitter) carries the new shortbow, and 3 little tigers are fooling around in front of him. I guess we will have to raise little tigers during the precursor journey, and we will probably be able to keep them. I think this is tigerish enough.)

1. From the first day i got to know WVW in 2012 i was in love with it.
2. I play wvw basically every day for several hours.
3. There are some issues, but i still think the game mode is fundamentally healthy.
4. “Population imbalance” is not a problem imho. The current matchmaking works as well as it can, we get ok match-ups nearly every week, and every week we face a different challenge, either to stand our ground against superior servers, or keep our rank points with a good result against weeker ones. It never gets boring.
5. PPT is the only possiblity to organize this game-mode in a reasonable way. I don’t see an alternative.
6. My biggest fear is that they will actually remove the current servers. I am convinced this would kill the game-mode. WvW would be nothing but a 4-map meaningless EotM with no immersion or dedication for anyone.
7. It is true that the new BL were not well received: Too large, too complicated, often too empty, too many “mechanics” nobody wants in a pvp mode, too much player vs map. However, it is as always also a matter of getting used to something new. It looks like the BL get more attention step by step. Let’s wait and see.
8. Sometimes the easiest solutions are the best: If you want to make WvW more attractive, make the rewards better. And i am not even talking about just “moar loot”. As a dedicated WvW player i felt rather unhappy that my game-mode was the only one that didn’t get legendary skins of whatever kind with HoT. And there is even an obvious lack of WvW-only normal skins (season skins have been unobtainable for years, and the real WvW players will normally already have the ones they like most). Give us just the rewards other players have as well, and the overall mood in WvW or concerning WvW might change quite fast.

I completed it yesterday on a revenant.
i got as reward:
-legendary gift of the pact fleet (required to craft the new legendaries)
-a new item i cannot remember
-a black lion key
-a revenant reward chest. it is an item for the ascended revenant specialization shield, and upon opening the chest i received an exotic heavy armour piece with traveller rune.

So if you really got nothing, it must have been a bug

Realism can’t be a point here. What about moa transformations, clones, perma invisiblity on open ground at close range, great swords thrown like boomerangs piercing everything on their way and returning safely to their player, mist form, long bows fired manually at the rate of an mg, asfaso.

No, realism is not a valid point in discussions about combat skills in MMOs. (And even if it was: Just imagine spike trap as a bundle of spikes in your hand. You can either hide them in the ground to make a trap, or throw them directly at a foe, thus inflicting bleeding. Much more realistic than 50% of skills in this game).

The only valid points are: Is a skill fun? And: Is it balanced?

Well, i used to play condi trapper in PVP. It was my main class, i thought it was fun. Ok damage over time, very high mobility and therefore survivability. Was it OP? Hardly, or many more players would have played it.

This build is now unviable. Everything feels extremely slow, you have to stand on the feet of your opponent to cast the traps which makes you vulnerable and decreases your dpm. And the worst: You are totally blocked by differences in terrain levels. Whenever a foe is above or below you (which is most often the case: Niflhel mid, Foefire mid, Khylo mid, Temple, not to mention skyhammer, lol) you cant hit them at all. So the condi trapper has effectively been removed from pvp. For no reason.

In PvE, traps are ridiculous anyway, in WvW roaming, they might still be ok, because you can combine them with trapper runes, which is still quite strong, but in PvP: Nerfed into oblivion for absolutely no reason.

One of my favourites:
Kasmeer using magic to open the Nightmare Tower. A perfect piece of fantasy-art.
It is a screenshot from the living story cutscene, maybe never to be seen again in the game….

As large as possible, because otherwise even the most beautiful skins would be totally lost on them.

I have a similar jump bug. In my case, it happens on female chars wielding a staff (human and sylvari ele, human guardian and necro). The male animations are correct.

I made this screenshot when my server, Ring of Fire, defeated Tequatl for the very first time, after many failures. Yes, when it was new, Teq was really hard, not the auto-kill it is today. It was a moment to behold, with all the effects all over the screen, and the dead bodies everywhere, and all the achievements and chests popping up.

Well tbh, i made a glassrifle warrior just 2 days ago to see what it can do. 11k is certainly not the max, it is even low. Below 2 screenshots, one with an 18k hit on a thief (ofc instadown from full hp), the other one a 13 k hit on a guardian (near instadown, got killed a few seconds later). And i did not even have many might stacks.

However, it is not really fun to play, it is tedious to build up the adrenaline, and then you have to lurk around to find targets, always in danger of being killed yourself, and when you finally shoot, you will mostly get “evaded”, “missed” or “Invulnerable”.
So it is a troll build, but all in all not really effective, and more than once i wished to switch to my good old hammer and just go ham on those guys in an honest fight.

Errrm, i did 3 vine-runs so far, and got 3 coats.
So I thought they were guaranteed drops?

In my case, it was the other way round.
Got detected, unstealthed and attacked, but killed everyone. Game says kill attackers to regain stealth, but there is noone left to kill.
Nothing to interact with, Vorpp invulnerable →quit

To OP: No.

I dont play dungeons anyway if i can avoid it, so i would rather see the effort going into other things. A good LS is imho the best possible end-game.

Varrg.2704:

jokke.6239:

Because anet need to make money somehow ..

That’s nice and understandable, BUT the problem is, people want to earn things by playing the game, not by throwing money to the toilet (that’s pretty much what keyes are) and relying on RNG. It’s not very cool to throw all the cool stuff to gemstore, while others will be stuck with one armor skin for next three months.

It is not true that “people” want to get things doing specific content, i for instance don`t. Imho it is the biggest merit of GW2 that it forces you only very rarely to do something that you do not like. Normally i can play whatever content i want, earn gold and then buy whatever i want.

I really cannot understand why some people keep demanding more constraints and more obligations and, in the end, more grind to get things. I suppose nobody likes every kind of content, so every player should be happy that this game allows him to choose what he wants to play and then get the rewards he desires from TP. I am happy to have this freedom.

I like the living story model better than an expansion model.
Ofc it is rather dry now with the month-long unexpected break in the living story that has not been filled with any other new content, but basically i find the idea of continous
story-telling instead of rather arbitrary “expansions” good.

One of my Necros. I am terrified myself, lol.

This whining for an “expansion” is getting on my nerves. There is absolutely no reason for a one-time “expansion” because the content is augmented continously.
If you cannot live without an “expansion” like in all those generic mmos out there (which would certainly cost something), then play one of those, but dont keep complaining about a game that has a new and better concept.

My sweet little Asura Mesmer is the best Ninja ever, lol

Head: Order of Whispers
Shoulders: Exalted Mantle
Chest: Seer Coat
Gloves: Exalted
Legs: Seer Pants
Feet: Illustrious Boots
Dyes: Abyss/Illumination
Back: Lightning Catcher

GS: Chiroptophobia

My Krytan princess paying a visit to her cousin ;-)

Head: Wreath of Cooperation
Shoulders: Radiant
Chest: Arah
Gloves: Radiant
Legs: Arah
Feet: Masquerade
Staff: Noname

Luna.9640:

Lightenbird after reading your comments here I’ve decided to do fractals

Took the group i joined around 2:34 minutes to reach 3rd map’s last boss.

By this time we got 1 of the players afk multiple times and eventually leave.

We got 1 of the other guys start raging and make 1 more of the players leave.

So basically I’ve been put into situation I’ve spend around 3h and not being able to acquire the item i was there for.

No offense but I see no logic for you to be here except deliberately trolling people who just ask for mare variety.

Thank you for your involvement in this topic but you have no reason to be opposite to this idea which is just an improvement and adds variety.

If you like Fractals and trolling people in fractals that much – do it but you have no right to troll wvw players who ask for support here.

It’s a game we all bought with money for different reasons – you may enjoy fractals same as we bought this game because we enjoy wvw.

+1
This is exactly why i stopped playing fractals about 4 weeks after the initial release. 2 hours of an unpleasant experience, and then no reward because the group falls apart.

Unfortunately the designers must have forgotten that the fractal release caused the biggest kitten storm in GW2 history with thousands of posts. It calmed down only because they made ascended gear available from different sources.

But now they come up with this forced fractals bs again, sigh

+1

I used to play Fractals directly after their release, but i stopped because they were too annoying in several ways. Havent played them at all after the introduction of the newer fractals. Should i really learn all the new mechanics now from youtube- vids or other sources before i can even think of entering? You know how you will be insulted in the fractals (or other dungeons) if you dare to not know all mechanics by heart and have to figure out what to do in the beginning, even if you are basically an experienced player. If you dont move to the correct pixel at once, and attack the one of 20 mobs you are supposed to attack, and use the correct class and weapon and build, And dont know all exploits the “community” has found during the last year, you will be called **** and **** and **** immediately.

With the toxic dungeon community in this game there is no way i will start with fractals again. But i would certainly appreciate a way to spend my 1000s of wvw badges in a reasonable way.

No drop so far from enemies, in spite of thousands of hours playtime.
But 5 precursors from Zomorros (torch, focus, 2x pistol, and 10 days ago The Legend), without even trying much, three of them within 51 minutes….

My tribal mesmer:

Feet: Aurora
Legs: Winged
Chest: Primitive
Gloves: None
Shoulders: Arah Dungeon
Head: Mask from Necro char creation

Staff: Hymenoptera

I found this chapter a good mix between solo and zerg.
Yesterday, immediately prior to the release, I was just thinkin that it was strange to rely so much on solo instances in the end-game content of an mmo. But here you go, they put some other things in this time. I liked it.

I like the changing looks of the sky.

PPT is still the best method to structure wvw.
Removing it will make lots of the current elements pointless: Structures, the whole supply system, scouting, organization of your server regarding play times and maps, most of the traits system, upgrading, all the skill and experience in placing siege correctly and efficiently etc.

All that will be left without PPT and everything that comes from it will be just a very simple MOBA. If you want one, play one, but dont destroy WVW.

I feel like offering an alternative to the legendary grind that has been discussed here, just to put things in relation.

I have 2 legendaries myself, Kudzu and Bolt, and was going to craft Bifrost next. This staff has been mentioned several times in this thread. But then i became aware how many other things i could get for the required gold.

As of now, Bifrost costs 3455 g.
For this money i can get:
1 ascended staff with berserker stats, 76 g
the most expensive sigil for the staff, sigil of generosity, 47g
assortment of nice staff skins:
-tormented skin, 84g
-phoenix skin, 73g
-dreamthistle skin, 256g

furthermore:
1 full set of heavy ascended armour with berserker stats, 500g
5 (yes five) full sets of full price gem store armor for 800gems each, 465g
Ascended back piece Light of Dwayna, including the recipe, 296g
3 infinite gathering tools for 1000 gems each, 349g
1 additional char slot, 93g
4 additional bank slots, 379g
3 full sets (yes, 3 full sets) of T3 cultural armor, 357g
1 full set of the most expensive runes (Runes of Strength), 104g
100 transmutation charges, 379g

This adds up exactly to the price of Bifrost. And there is no month-long grind where you dont dare to buy anything else but mats for your legendary or only with a bad feeling. Instead, you get something nice or useful or shiny every week.

Since i have quit crafting legendaries and started to buy all that other nice stuff instead, i really feel rich in this game. And it has become FUN again instead of a grind.

I had a similar issue, but in my case it was Lornar’s Pass, that didn’t count the first time i did it. Only the second try granted me the 13/13 achievement.

yroeht.5843:

Yeah, the blobbing has been a bit crazy at times, esp. on EB.

featuring ring of fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DquVckwj590
featuring whiteside ridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsM-FeVkQUo

But there is also plenty of fun to be had. This evening had some fun fights at rof bay, much less blobby, wish I had recorded that :/

featuring Ruins of Surmia:
44 name tags are visible on this screen, including all of your guilds like VcY, Riot, DeX, Nom etc. And several must be hidden by the bridge and a large portion including 4 golems had already disappeared on the left side. 1920 res is just not enough for your blobs… All in all this blob had easily 60+ members.
And you know what we did? We charged with our 15 guys to take out your golems before they reached our garrison, and a funny underwater fight ensued.

I am a dedicated wvw player, and i have to say:
nothing in wvw enrages me more than these silly mobs!
Those useless slow-downs because of their attacks, as if the maps (especially the borderlands) were not large and the travelling long enough!
And the totally random influence on the outcome of battles: i remember a 30vs30 fight at speldan that we lost just because the spirit spawned and decided to attack us. Or an underwater fight south of anza where i had nearly defeated 3 enemies, but when me and the last enemy were both in down-state a river dragon decided to attack and kill me → rage quit
Or the constant attacks by the darn wolves when you besiege durios and everybody coming as reinforcement or carrying supply from umber pulls in the next pack.
And so further and so on.

Give me more 100 guy zergs, more lags, more arrow-carts, more bugs and what not, i dont mind, but kitten get rid of this mob crap which is totally unasked for in a pvp area.

To get back to topic:
This post made me try again these boxes which had disappointed me
earlier.

So i bought boxes for 250k Karma I had saved on one of my chars. Result: Stuff for 1g 30s and 9 obsidian shards i do not need.

Not really a convincing ratio of converting karma into gold. Just another kind of roulette in this game.