Guild Wars 2

Does it not make ANYBODY else that fought through the Scarlet’s War content angry that just any new kid with money can just get the same items that I busted my butt for? What about the countless hours of farming that we spent trying to collect shards and blades and all the million trillion pieces that it took to make the spinal blade back items with the colors. Also, the scarlet’s kiss and rainbow items being so easily obtainable if you just throw boatloads of money into the gem store sucks pretty hard too. Honestly, I feel like it’s not worth staying up to date on the content to get rare or exclusive stuff because someday I’ll just be able to buy it.

Maybe its just selfish but my time is valuable and I chose to spend it here so that I could get exclusive and cool stuff for my character and now that time counts for nothing because I cant show my battle scars of playing this game with pride since EVERYBODY has access to be just like me. If that’s the case, just give me a pair of the holographic dragon wings for like 3000 gems so that I too can fill in the missing special event items with ease.

Those fights were excruciating at times and now those hard-earned battles are diminished. And the story lines we had to do to GET to those battles… smh

For a condition build, you might investigate Trailblazer’s gear, which has the two defensive stats, plus condition damage and duration. It’s about as tanky as you can get for condition oriented damage.

Gaile Gray.6029:

A message from the Balance Team:

As mentioned in our “Road Ahead for 2015” blog, our strategy for adjusting the meta-game in Guild Wars 2 after the release of Heart of Thorns focuses on releasing balance updates on a set cycle – each and every quarter.

Your strategy isn’t good.

First of all you need to fix broken skills that do 17-20k damage like Coalescence of Ruin or Gun Flame on the week we find out the issues, not 3 months later, because these press 1 button to win skills are ruining the game for everyone in the competitive modes.

Secondly, we don’t want “meta changes” where you are just stuck into playing the same build for 3 months. We want balanced skills so that we can have Build variety as it was promised with the new trait system. The players should be dictating the meta by creative thinking, Anet shouldn’t be dictating it for them and cornering them into meta-builds that they have no choice to run, as it currently is.

ANet seems to have failed to learn from its own past.

The old Skill Points, which were character bound, had two uses. One use was for character development (unlocking skills and traits). The other use was as a currency for the Mystic Forge.

ANet eventually decided that this was confusing, so they split the functions into Hero Points, used ONLY for character development, and Spirit Shards, used ONLY as a currency. This, to me, made good sense. The HP are character bound, as they should be, while the SS are account bound and placed in the wallet.

Then they turned around and added Proofs of Heroics, which have two uses: character development and currency. They’re like the old Skill Point system, except this time they made it worse. Skill Points at least had no physical token so they didn’t take up a bag or bank slot.

Somehow the principle that character development indicators and currencies should not be combined got lost Did somebody miss a meeting or throw a memo into the circular file without reading it?

Offair.2563:

To screw wvwers over once again. Anyway the chests you get out the rank chests are acc bound, they dont stack but you can just put in bank and get the proofs on another toon you want.

Edit: horrible typo

There is an even better solution.
- You open the chests because they dont stack.
- You put the soulbound Proofs Of Heroics into your bank.
- Log in into a different character and go to the Hero Points merchant.
- Buy the hero points, it takes the Proofs directly from your bank, you dont have to have it in your inventory. Despite the soulbound nonsense it still works.

Worse is we, the EU players, are now a day behind on the daily login rewards. Kinda silly to go out of your way coding it like this for what? Not giving people 2 daily rewards? But you do allow us to do the regular (new) dailies and get those rewards. Makes no sense.

Again an example of the worst problem Anet has: inconsistency in everything they do.

Combatter.5123:

So many of the foes we face in PvE tend to have low damage output and a high health/armour pool. Fights with these foes tends to be somewhat long and boring and also encourage people to run full damage builds (e.g. Berserker). Could we mix things up a bit have some foes that produce a very high damage output but with a lower health pool?

THIS!
+1
Asking it for years!…

But zerkers lack health and defence so if they were to get hit with immense damage, they would be downed quickly. Unless you mean in a group event type situation in which case the scaling should serve to give the foes more health/armour anyway.

That’s one of the reasons I want this!
We NEED build variety, and the current content doesn’t support this!
I love how the Mordren dogs for example need to be blinded to be dealt with effectively (though I would like a better “tell” animation for their attack.
And the big mordrens have lots of difference an require actual conditions.
Other more obvious way to promote difference build is to make the enemies do more damage while at the same time being faster to fall, so you won’t miss the absence of dps.

The other is the obvious. Less HP bucket mobs and bosses.

Combatter.5123:

… therefore her ascended armour will look like this

Are you saying your sylvari is lanky and terrible at complimenting colors? The biggest offense is the dye job, good lord, I hope you’re more sensible than this example. Ask someone to link the armor, then preview dyes, maybe you’ll like how it looks on you and not some horrible model that everyone seems to create when referencing this armor.

Mystery Tonic gave me Golem and this is the result.

Even death…can not stop me to see the Eternal Alchemy!

Since i’ve had a character at that mission i’ve tried some combinations as well

first 3 : Apparently there are shinies to be had in the Eternal Alchemy, also : All hail Skritt!

next 2 : Apparently someone lost their towel while traveling in the Eternal Alchemy (towel seems happy about it though)

final 3 : Thats what you get for not cleaning the telescope lens before filming cutscenes Mathew! Also : Made in Tyria xD

Karkaaaaas in spaaaaaace

Most games don’t come out with an expansion after six months. I don’t even know where you’d get a figure like that. Games like WoW are usually a couple of years between expansions.

And has said they’re working on larger projects. We know now they have 20 people working on the Living Story. There are 300 people working for the company.

You think 280 people are delivering coffee to those 20?

Anet isn’t talking about an expansion at this point for business reasons. If there’s not going to be a boxed expansion, the same sorts of stuff you’d find in an expansion will find their way into a game.

Colin said IF they do a new profession it will be a heavy armor class. We know that more zones are coming. They’ve already said there will be more skills added (and they’re setting up the game to do just that).

But they also just released in China and they’re not going to put out an expansion until most of the Chinese player base is 80th level. That’s business.

Rentapest.6503:

Serbianwolf.1652:

Laidari is too much overpowered. I wasted ~70 tickets, 10g and all festival tokens to get absolutely NOTHING from her. She needs to cripple less, have 2 at max inv buffs and spam less red fields. HP nerf would be welcomed as well.I am trying to kill her for 2 days already and Im seriously out of patience for this game.. aNET please do something about this.

Thanks in advance.

Agree, this needs a MASSIVE nerf and then some more.

Nope, she doesn’t any nerfs. Some players could use a buff, if you catch my drift.

Shonie.5297:

Normal WvW problem.
Lack of care by Anet.
Nothing new.
For those saying it’s ok, it’s not.
People expect a reward for the effort they put in. In game and in life.
I have an understanding at my job that I get paid every second Thursday for the hours I put in every 14 days. I get paid every 2nd Thursday, no exceptions, ever. Not paying me because some other employee has an issue with direct deposit is not my problem.
Not getting my WvW season rewards because other players are having issues getting their chest is not my problem.
It comes down to lack of care and attention to detail in WvW from Anet. It’s been this way since launch, I doubt it will ever change.

Exactly. We aren’t “haters”. Anet is a company that made a promise to its customers. It needs to keep said promise. I can’t stand the “don’t complain, don’t be negative, just be happy because you’re not starving to death” attitude. Its narcissistic apathy veiled in blissful ignorance. People have valid concerns. Learn what empathy is, and let people express themselves. I’m sure that if the people saying “don’t be hating” had a skin they wanted [and earned] bad enough, they would be right here posting. They sure were coming on and whining/complaining when the Zodiac armor had two pointy bits on it that they didn’t want, that’s for sure! Then they got their way, and went back to telling everyone else “don’t be hating, don’t be so negative”. Hypocrisy is distasteful…

I would appreciate if Anet would make the mistforged weapons available to buy with the tickets. There is no sense giving us tickets and then telling us to wait [even longer] for no reason. Anet needs to stop taking forum trolls seriously. So many changes have been made based on the loud minority’s demands. It’s getting ridiculous. First the gem store item censorship, and now its getting into EARNED content. Smh…

People are complaining in-game, and even on Mumble, that most players’ concerns aren’t getting heard on the forums. Most people agree with them – as do I.

sirflamesword.3896:

RickyMack.5327:

the sense of entitlement in this thread is pretty effing astounding. you are not going to lose your house or life by having to wait a few days for your WvW rewards, chill out people.

It makes it feel like anything that actually rewards the playerbase is left on a backburner while all the stuff that bleeds the playbase’s wallets dry is pushed to the front and waved around.

They had 9 weeks to resolve this and so had time to get better systems in place and your right about what takes priority. To try and turn it into an ‘entitlement’ argument is pretty lame.

If you want something from the gemstore is it ok to take first and say you’ll pay later? Of course not, ANet have expectations of us, just as we have expectations of them. They said end of season, end of season is here and were still waiting.

sillypants.5021:

You clearly haven’t done any software development if you think the presence of bugs means it’s untested.

Issues with tournament rewards have existed since S1, anet knows they exist, they haven’t been fixed yet still went ahead with S2 and its rewards without finding and fixing the issues, seeming expecting everything to miraculously be hunky dory. That is unprofessional.

As long as you can’t spend the rewards, it remains very easy to tell whether you’ve received them or not. The Mistforged weapons are not the only rewards, so if people start buying ascended accessories and/or other such items, it will be much more difficult for Anet to tell who got their rewards and who didn’t.

Yes, it is a serious problem that Anet waited so very long to address this problem, and that they still haven’t addressed this same problem from Season One, but that’s no reason for people to whine like spoiled little children rather than at least attempt to understand the reason Anet has chosen to postpone rewards for everyone.

Feandro.5264:

We waited 4 months already, why is it that big of a deal to wait slightly longer?

The fact that they haven’t figured this out in 4 months is why its an issue. Its seriously unprofessional.

RickyMack.5327:

sirflamesword.3896:

The WvW Season 2 has been going on for 2 months, and because you don’t figure out that you have no clue how to do the rewards until a couple days before the end the rest of us get screwed? GG

the sense of entitlement in this thread is pretty effing astounding. you are not going to lose your house or life by having to wait a few days for your WvW rewards, chill out people.

Hardcore WvWers have no need of houses, or lives…

sillypants.5021:

Wow, you people seriously need to chill out. It’s impossible to avoid bugs when you are introducing new content and patches regularly. That’s just reality. You people who are telling Anet to do some testing are idiots. Do you really think when they get their first clean compile they just say, “Sweet, all done, let’s go live with it”?

If the shoe fits.

Well, ok THEN, I guess that’s just YOUR opinion. You have an AWFULLY strange WAY of EXPRESSING it. Evening the FIELD just seems FAIR to ME.

They’re not punishing people who already got their rewards. They’re trying to avoid creating a rift between people who did and those who didn’t. How would you feel if you didn’t get your ticket but people around you were flaunting their shining new skins?

Now I do agree that ArenaNet is just super bad with these. Some people still haven’t gotten their rewards from season 1 and it is unacceptable.

My advice for ArenaNet: if you don’t know how to do it properly, then don’t do it at all.

I don’t expect every reward system, patch, etc. to go live without bugs/problems but at this point things are beyond ridiculous. Invest in some quality assurance.

This is disappointing and unacceptable, please start testing your patches Anet.

To be honest this is the best way to handle it. Now they can trace everyone who owns tournement tokens (and know they had chest) and the ppl without it dont. Otherwise it’s a mess like ‘but but i didnt get chest, sorry sir, you have traces of tournement tokens, no no no i didnt, but you use them no no no i didnt’. No it’s either ‘yes you have them’ or ‘no you dont have them’. This message shows they care about the issue, and that’s all i need to know.

They are doing this to keep track of who has tickets already, if people spend them they have no way knowing who’s received the tickets.

Just sit tight.