Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure people actually understand that until HoT , there were only 4 maps for level 80’s. That means for the life of the game most people have been running in max gear but downleveled to low level maps which although is scaled better than the 1 shot of other games in lower level areas we have still been doing underlevel content with max gear. HoT finally brought us lvl 80 appropriate content and all the carebears of the game can’t stand it cause they can’t “GW2 and chill”. What did you people want in lvl 80 maps more lvl 52 mobs you can 2-3 shot without looking? There are a great many things wrong with the game in all areas but Anet actually did get the difficulty of the new lvl 80 maps right. Go back to Sparkfly Fen and brainlessly kill Teq with his lvl 52 add ons , go back to Queensdale for your glorious champ train on auto attack, heck go back to any of the 29 maps that are not lvl 80 areas and continue to GW2 and chill in your max gear thinking you are good at the game and for the love of god leave the 8 lvl 80 maps alone so that those who actually want to play level/gear appropriate content can. Orr was nerfed to difficulty complaints, Silverwastes mob difficulty has been nerfed and they have nerfed most of the HoT mobs at this point too so give them another month and HoT maps should be Sesame Street easy for for you all too

I recently stepped up to a logitech gaming keyboard that has a row of 6 buttons on the left of the keyboard that you can bind skills to so I have bound skills 7-0 to the bottom 4 of those and can get them very quickly with my pinky. It has made my engineer game a lot better and on my elementalist I have bound my attunement swap(F1-F4) to them . this has made my play in PvP much better. The gaming mouse will greatly ease your life also , I use a Razor Death Adder which is simple as far as mouses go but is comfortable for me . Good Luck and have fun!

you got taxied to an already closing map without knowing probably, if people get the closure message , ignore it and taxi folks in the message will go away but the map will still close at that 60 minute mark

you buy the inscription/insignia recipes from the exhalted merch in Tarir’s center for map currency. You’ll need black diamonds to craft it which come from the chests under Tarir after a successful meta run. also I believe they may drop from chak caches in TD. the individual armor/weapons recipes drop in the Tarir chests also and you can buy them on the TP

at this point they may as well just give is 3 factions to choose from…..luxon, kurzick and the whatevers use all BL EB and EotM maps and let us have at it just like AB, JQ and FA in GW1, would solve all coverage problems , just give different titles, rewards and whatever to encourage staying with a particular faction of the 3 for a while. basicly the same as Lux and Kurz in GW1 with and an added faction. WvW has been on the decline since the end of season 2 and the megaserver change, the loss of server identity especially for newer players has made it irrelevant and every other mode of the game makes more gold for your shinies. its a shame , for 2 years I’ve been half hartedly playing PVE and PVP hoping that with HoT WvW would be brought back somehow , had all I can take with the farming thing and leagues just suck . its too bad that they have slowly killed a great game in all modes but debatably PVE . one can hope that this balance shift/change that is coming is sweeping and will take some time to figure out while they figure out how to further kill the game

did you know that in life and games especially complex game systems like GW2 crafting their is a concept called due diligence ? when the sum of all mankinds knowledge of just about any subject that can be imagined is a google query away from anyone , when M.I.T. offers any course in their catalog for free it isnt too much of a stretch to assume that people can find out anything they want if they but try. the wiki for this game is actually very in depth compared to alot of others and with Dulfy and 10 ton hammer having great crafting guides, there really is no excuse for not knowing everything about the actions you are taking in this game. not being bothered to read patch notes in a complex game is on the player not on Anet, if you have been gone a year it behooves you to find out what has changed in that time from an update stand point and a mechanics standpoint ie; it makes your life easier,cheaper and allows you to get back into the game with minimal frustration. you can type into google search GW2-anything and in point 7 seconds you have a list of the thousands of pieces of info about whatever you want to choose from
so continued ignorance is actually self imposed and alt+tab is pretty easy to do

side note I just started playing Neverwinter last week, I have read every patch note and available Dev post with player feedback since its launch, I have researched the combat system, the crafting system( which is far more complex than GW2), encounters, different dungeons that I will eventually be doing, and the leveling system so that I can have a basic understanding of the game system I am playing in, precisely for the reason of not making costly mistakes that I won’t even know are mistakes until 70 levels down the road, so I dont salvage(refine) valuable gear, so that I dont play as a complete noob at others expense in dungeons and skirmishes. yeah its some work and time to read it all but it is part of the due diligence necessary to get the most out of a complex gaming system and not waste mine and other players time

lol another whaaambulance driver ,if one trait destroys your whole build you may want to consider another one or maybe just maybe use your situational awareness to not attack the ele with your one trick pony build

the one trick pony whaaambulance drivers are back with a new cross to carry, maybe stop playing a build that relies on your opening move being load em up with 9 condis in 3 seconds. there are plenty of ways to beat DS if you adjust your build/playstyle or maybe just maybe play with a team and if your a condie bomb then go after the other 8 classes that it works on and let your DPS team mates hit the ele for the 1800 damage needed to break DS

or there is the bunch of people who like me were bored to tears with old Tyria styles of play, and the only reason I am still playing this game is because of HoT. if HoT had not added the type of content it did then I would have completely left the game as there is no need to be running around 25+ maps that were designed for under lvl 80
. before HoT there were 4 maps for lvl 80s, great endgame lol.

what about those of us who love stronghold, are bored of the same 4 conquest maps we have been playing for 3 and a half years and still want to play ranked? perhaps caring what rank anyone besides your self is the root of your problem? oh and your screenshot doesnt really show anything but a legendary playing with diamonds and rubies, no proof of farming legendary or anything else

any class that doesnt put all its eggs in 1 basket can deal with the 10% damage required to drop the DS , stop playing the equally OP condi spamfest zomg 9 condis in 4 seconds but I cant do 1800 damage . Competent players can dismantle a DS tempest the same as any other class

as Sephiroth said maybe after waiting in que for a while and not wanting to leave and get dishonor with only a 30 sec window perhaps we are grabbing a beer and or doing the bathroom with a 1+ minute window( I can grab beer,do toilet in 50 seconds)

like omg you might have to wp and rez , lose maybe 30 seconds, it is learn to play dude, just figure it out and shred it all, stop trying to run through it all and kill everything in your path as it spawns , none of it is broken you just dont like it

uhm when you can run from LA to Orr in 15 minutes I dont see the point nor do I want to look at them, it adds nothing to the game, and this game needs to be saved from its whining playerbase for the most part.

I’d play Mortal Kombat

guru mods banned and infracted any posts that didnt fit with their views and or agenda, on the GW1 guru page they either allowed or caused many accounts to be hacked and had multiple instances of malware in the pages and links on the site

how about not making a build that can be stopped dead by one trait? when you streamline yourself to be a one trick pony and then choose to try and fight the one build that stops you dead in your tracks …… maybe you deserve to lose

most people hate DS tempest because half of them are running a condi overload setup and try to apply all their condi burst in 3 seconds flat to every target, then get mad when they blow all their cooldowns because they didnt use their brains and tried it on the ele. the DS trait has been like this for quite a while just people weren’t running condi focused builds until the June patch, now its condi’s for you, for me and for all some more condi, oh would you like another condition?

people its only doing 10% damage to a DS that you have achieve, thats 1700-2000 damage in most cases or 2 AA from any power build, sorry it stops the overwhelming amount of 1 trick pony condi overload builds 3/4 of the people are running

I have found the average night cycle in VB has 20-35 airship cargo and 3-5 large cargos, you can run the whole map and help with the defend rally point events as you loop it. for some reason I find more in the nobles area usually

be glad it isn’t 10000 minutes drunk like it was in GW1, somehow we got that done with drinks only being available on holidays and no cash to gemshop option

are you bloody kidding me? the level of PC correctness with every little thing is depressing , its a game rated mature but more so ITS A GAME. If you don’t approve of the message go to AA or something, live and let live which means stop trying to kill everyone elses fun because of your value judgements. since the days of script RPG Adventure ale consumption has been a part of this genre , hell GW1 had skills that only worked when drunk.
TLDR: take your PC thought police back to gestahpo HQ and let people exercise their own free will about what is acceptable content

problem with bringing bombers back is that then you would have to make mesmers viable like they used to be for counterplay , you know centered on interrupts ,also the type of map that the bomber was used on had multiple NPCs on a shrine that had to be nuked and killing all 6 of them was worth the death and respawn time as the shrine flipped on the death of the last NPC . even in stronghold there is no objective that would make the self-death worth it and it was always fairly useless against other players who had a modicum of heal/interrupt ability. now bringing touch rangers back would be a great 2 week interlude of hate

if you don’t want to craft anything then just chuck it all, hell I have all crafts maxed and still chuck most ascended mats though I think some of the new MF recipes for the new PvP backpack take some to make different parts

in the PvP forum I would think a basic understanding of the principle concepts of The Art of War would be more important for developers, you know to promote realism mechanics like a guy attacking uphill might do less damage or have less energy to dodge roll up the hill and through the trap spam or I dunno anything combat related and not some tired over thought analysis of group behavior . and true heros could care less what others have written and are instead focused upon their own deeds and actions. Crom cares not for the words of men but the blood of their enemies to make the grass grow

how can you assure us anything especially the timing of when someone else has completed the meta lmfao or their skill at the game, like maybe save that for your dodgeball tournament league smacktalk to Zoolander . if you got DCed maybe say so in the post so normal humans and not outright geniuses like yourself can understand what you are saying. Remember not all of us are firing at the translight speed of inference that you assuredly have

just like to add that MF does this just about every week, also if you need help with some of them at other times message me in game and I’ll work on timing to do some with you

your glee about the change really shows the motivation behind your crusade to get this nerfed, hope the next season of Lost pairs well with pressing 1 and f

well the whiners and complainers won again, congratulations guys you ruined another event chain, good job keep up the hard forum playing and let the world tremble at your QQ skill

DS stops the one trick condi overload ponies , huh who would have thought that we should have a counter available to instant 4 conditions with 3 more on the way. funny that on decent teams and with decent players they seem to have someone burst the ele for all of 2200 health and then the condi necro,mesmer or revenant gets to have his fun. I swear across all the game types these days no one wants to use their brain or have situational awareness. If you are a condi burst player maybe uhm I dunno don’t dump all your condi’s on an ele with full health, maybe even work with your team and follow the straight DPS of a team mate up with your condi burst. adapt and overcome….problem solving, don’t put all your eggs in one basket I dunno there is counter play to everything in this game if one thinks about it. rocks, paper scissors isnt that hard to figure out

I definitely like the HoT maps more than core Tyria maps, best thing to happen to the game for me though I don’t feel they are the biggest maps out there

actually Anakin did bring balance to the force , before the Empire there were many Jedi and only 2 Sith, after Anakin became Lord Vader and the slaughter of the Jedi there were 2 Jedi left, Obi Wan and Yoda and 2 Sith, Sidious and Vader. As you see balance achieved

dude put your TD cross down, you don’t like it , you don’t want to do it under the conditions that exist, we all freakin get it. well as said before don’t do it then. once again you and those who don’t like/want to do it have 30+ other maps to be in where all the events are doable with anyone wearing anything. your crusade against the difficulty/mechanics of the gerent sucks. have fun go back to queensdale or wherever it is that you find enjoyment in the game and leave the 1 map that has something that other people enjoy alone. seriously give it up, git gud whatever you gotta do .
the best thing that could come from this jolly bag of a thread would be that people reading it become aware of the need to employ certain gear and play styles to do this event with success

for the record I am probably not an elitist either , since launch I have done 3 fractals total, always despised dungeons and have no plans to raid in any way that won’t entertain me. I played 90% WvW on BG until the matches became stale and manipulated , switched to PvP until Silverwastes release and lived in there until HoT was released. I have no legendaries and wouldn’t for 2 minutes think of caring about one. I have made several sets of ascended armor and weapons for each weight class so maybe that does put me in the elitist class of the game in some people’s minds but to me it is just natural progression in any game to have the best possible gear. I play 90% solo and find others who are doing the same thing when I need bodies around me. I use LFG like a madman to get the map instances I want to be in . Since HoT and because of the gerent event I have joined several guilds that claim to be centered on farming the Metas, most are not what they claim but they are a personal LFG tool that works to network with those of like mind and goals.

I want you to succeed at this Slowpokeking, I want the game community to succeed at this but I don’t think it is the events design that is at fault but rather the lackluster approach that many take to all PVE events in the game. Feel free to message me in game I will taxi you into any attempt I’m in at whatever time of day you want, bring your DPS gear and sharpening stones and I’ll provide the food. We may or may not succeed but when you make sure that You are bringing the most you can to the event and I do the same we only have to worry about 78 other people now lol ,and to me it is fun and profit either way

So your point that is coming across is that players should not have to get better to succeed at anything in the open world in this game. Well I say to you that if you are so mad and frustrated with this event and its “unfairness” just don’t do it. There are 32 other maps that have brain dead faceroll open world content that you can play and succeed at while those of us that like this event as is HAVE THIS 1 EVENT out of all the maps in the game. I have lived in this map for the last month, Have seen it done by pug groups who listened to people who have succeeded, I have seen it fail from people not listening and playing their own way. My personal success rate with pugs is about 1 in 5 now and yes I think that is fine. What people call organized maps are mostly just dudes like me who enjoy the event win or lose and Tag up, explain our lanes mechanics and goals, put out DPS food(at 3-5 gold a feast out of my own money) and give it our all. The Tags that spam ALL IN CAPS LOCK FOR THE ENTIRE BATTLE are usually the ones that fail by the way. Gerent requires you to move, to dodge and to be useful , no where else in the game is this actually required of a player. If a person does not want to play like this they literally have the rest of HoT and all of Pact Tyria to do what they will in.
I run the SCAR lane , so am used to the breakbar being broken in seconds each time it is up, with positioning , dodging and the right weapons and skill sets I barely go down anymore and many times when my lane is filled with randoms who , like me have lived in here for weeks and done this so many times that we recognize each other by name , well gods below we actually have started acting like a squad with flexible members and have a 90% success rate for bringing our Gerent down. In the last week this has evolved into downing the gerent in 2nd burn more than not. People are getting better at this, they are fixing what is wrong with their builds and gear, with how they position and react to the blue doughnuts and learning to DPS while avoiding that and the charge and the rocks falling. It is a good thing for the game as a whole for its players to become better and if it is the Gerent that is what wakes up the masses to press more than 1 with an occasional 6 along with f spam then I for one welcome it.

TL,DR “The only good bug is a dead bug”- Johnny Rico- Would you like to know more?

The economist dude said that the rewards were being reduced to make dungeons less attractive as a gold source. look for his post from a week or 2 before the release of HoT

There is no need to nerf this event, the entire rest of the open world game besides TT is doable by zerging 1 without thought. AB is on farm ,DS is on farm, Teq is on farm. If you personally don’t have the time or dedication to do this event , well then don’t. There are guilds that have formed dedicated to doing this and you know what, now that the bugs are fixed we are succeeding with pugs about half the time. You have 5 guild slots so use 1 and join a guild like MASO, MAGI or 1 of the others that have no rep , no requirements and are basically a LFG tool. The real reason this event fails is 1: people refuse to join squads and follow the tags direction and some have taken to hiding in corners of the lanes to avoid being called out on it. 2: Alot of people refuse to run the gear needed, this event does not need heals or tanks it needs conditions applied at max strength and DPS,DPS,DPS oh did I mention you need max damage stats.3:most of the mobs when the Gerent spawns can safely be ignored through movement and damage negation, they are a distraction, a decoy and an obstacle to damaging the only target that is important, the GERENT. When I see lanes fail hard it is usually when half the lane is running around playing games with the chak and not DPSing the boss.4: Food and Utility buffs are needed and your MF , vitality and toughness buffs ain’t gonna cut it here. Step up , buy the right stuff and see how much easier it is. You are going to commit an hour and a half to two hours to this but 60 silver worth of buffs is too much?
This is not a question of the event is too hard for open world , it is a question of are players willing to do what needs to be done to down this thing. The ones who are sticking with it, who fail over and over again and then group together with others to figure out how to do this event even with a bunch of selfish sabotaging leechers present are the ones who will put this on farm because we will problem solve until it is idiot proof. The proof of this is in the last 2 weeks the success rates have jumped and that was before the patch Tuesday and since Tues it has become even better.
Good luck , have fun, stop complaining and problem solve like the evolved simians you are or go load some wood in your ovens and light it up to cook dinner and complain about the smoke in the kitchen with grunts.

WvW was dead before HoT hit, in T1 it was just a karma train with enough PPT thrown in that no one would lose their place. Its dead because their is no point to it anymore. There are no seasons, no rewards. For all the supposed “hardcore WvW” crowd, the maps were played the same as EotM “scrubland” with scouts and a static player roster. Yeah its a real blast to fight JQ for the last 2 years straight and I’m sure they feel the same about BG. to say HoT decimated WvW is to ignore the fact that it was FUBARed since the close of season 2.

something to think about; if you play in HoT maps all the time after a while it becomes tiresome to see the constant pleas for help. it is on every map and it is 24/7 . I do help people all the time but sometimes especially in DS I would like to do what I am working on for a few minutes. those of us that live in the HoT maps are tired of helping people who 1) refuse to regear for the area if they need to, 2) have not researched or looked at any map guides and expect people to show them around the map when they want it to happen and get mad and frustrated if the rest of the map is not on their schedule 3)many players seem to have this OCD need to map complete as a checklist and then bail to easier places, they want what they want and then they are outta here. if you play on the DS map consistently you will get the spider queen HP , but to come in and expect it to happen in 1 or 3 or even 10 map cycles is not how it is gonna work for most. also their are work arounds , the consumables that grant stealth, having a thief and mesmer grant you stealth, doing this with a guild or group that are willing to cater to your needs, finding the HP train that rolls through all HoT maps on weekends led by people who are dedicated to helping players through these obstacles. and about the no rez thing, in many encounters stopping to rez someone is not the right thing to do as it puts the rezzing player at risk, the rezzing player is not doing damage or mitigating damage for others and you can WP repair and be back in the fight in less than a minute so stop being lazy and cheap , you went down get yourself back up so the rest of the squad/team can do what they need to do.

the heal skill in Shiro is actually very powerful when you learn how to use it , 1/3 health left be in sword/whatever pop heal and skill 3=full health again. celestial stats will hold you back significantly , I run all zerk trinkets, zerk weapons and 4 pieces of knights 2 pieces of zerk armor and have great success with DPS and survival anywhere in the game except raids where the toughness of knights screws the aggro. I run shiro/glint most of the time and swap glint for situational needs. hammer is good for maintaining distance and some control of your aggro but sword/whatever is where the Rev shines and a quickened Rev sword AA is something to be appreciated in most content

I was in TD all night last night probably switched between 3 maps because of closings, the last map I was in for about 4 hours as several waves of players came and went doing a few events but mostly trying to get help with hero points until a guild came in and quickly organized the map and we made a good attempt at it,
with 10 people from a guild who knew what’’s up and a taxi the map was full in minutes and even though it failed anyone half paying attention learned alot about why it failed and now know what to do and bring next time. my point is that the more of us who become determined to beat this , step up to the plate and do it right the faster we are gonna beat it. Its not impossible , it takes certain tactics and forethought

well stop complaining and learn to LFG, learn to dodge and learn the maps, they aint that complicated

So being physically disabled and in pain all the time with the insomnia that entails, I play throughout the day and night at random times and intervals. What I see is that every 2 hours for a 10-15 stretch the DS taxi’s are in full force and it’s easy to find an organized map at any time but only for the 1st minutes of the map cycle. With TD it is hit or miss but if you look up the event cycle on the web and start looking in lfg at the times that the meta is approaching there are taxi’s to that meta also, with Auric Basin there are always taxi’s in the lfg and still more lfg’s looking for an organized AB , same with the VB map. through constant and proactive use of lfg you can always find a map to suit your needs. it may take 10 minutes of refreshing the lfg constantly untill you find what you need but it has and does work. Is it the best solution to the problem of bugged megaservers putting us in empty maps all the time?NO but it is a work around. Also look in the GW2 reddits there are several guilds that post there about their organized HP runs, TD meta attempts etc and the corresponding times that they are doing these. Hell organize your own meta event push and post it here or on reddit and people will show up.

just because YOU haven’t had a crash since switching to 64bit does not invalidate those of us who have had crashes on the 64 bit. since the patch game is unplayable for me and others whilst and at the same time running the supposed game saving 64 bit client. prior to the patch I had only a few crashes since going to 64 bit

title says it all . bought a new computer last week 8 gig 64 bit machine downloaded and running the 64 bit client. has been fine with minimal crashes since going to 64 bit client, since getting the patch game is unplayable with no more than 5 minutes in game before either it locks up or just crashes out

what’s the point of even playing a game when you refuse to adapt to the mechanics of the world given. whats the point of ley line gliding if you dont use it?poison immunity?why would a dev even put a mechanic in the game to not be utilized in the elite areas of the game? its like refusing to get Soul Twist for your Rit in GW1 and thinking you are gonna get in a DoA and do well. man up , level your masteries and join those of us that are/did and have fun in the raid. you want to play the elite area become elite . all the rest of this whaambulance driving on all the forums these days is not constructive and the time it takes to be all offended at having to actually play the game takes away from your time to LEVEL the masteries needed. and once its done its done for all your toons past,present and future

not thrilled about these becoming account bound, though not surprised. After the rush flax is next

I was in T4 maps all night yesterday, it is totally possible if you can convince people to not zerg wyvern and do the other bosses. Also helps if you personally give up the glory of 1 champ box and protect the rally points while others are in canopy. Remind those with HP tunnel vision that there is a meta event going and that the first 15 min of the day cycle is perfect for getting said HP’s, offer to help them then . it is amazing what communication and teamwork accomplish

what is your fetish with getting people to do guild missions with you and kicking them after as a solution? just allow them to rep whatever for the rest of the week and rep your guild for the weekly mission, problem solved and the following weeks do the same thing. your anti-social stance does not need to dictate the needs/design of the larger player base. I also have a 1 man guild and do not expect the game that is designed for multiple players cooperating for common goals to redesign its formula for my benefit , instead I will have several friends(you know the other people that you meet when your walking down the street types) that are willing to help me achieve what I want 1 time a week. you know what I’m not gonna kick them after they help me and then ask them to help again next week nor will I give them bank access or upgrade options. your continued insistence to work within your self made paradigm is what is making your arguments in both threads invalid. you are setting yourself up to fail with your own arbitrary ideas of what is and isn’t correct instead of problem solving in a logical manner within the construct of the game and the structure provided to you by the designers of said game

the original Ranger was Strider(Aragorn) who was reknowned throughout Middle Earth as a great healer as well as warrior………………………………………..the basis of all fantasy sword/torch longbow wielding bad mofo that will bring you back from the dead with herbs and care of spirit