Guild Wars 2

Instead of just telling us some bad news, you could’ve added a cryptic message so that we could speculate on it.

Something like “The South isn’t cooling down.” or whatever. Reddit and the forums go ape kitten for that kind of stuff, I never understand why you don’t do fun little cryptic hints like those…

Guess we can’t deviate from the iron fist of “don’t tell, just show” rule huh? Hype died with it though. Good for you, Mo!

Would you consider doing Youtube interview video’s on each class after a rebalance patch? It would give us perspective into your way of thinking and it would be very interesting to see how you achieve your goals. The things I look forward to the most are the “explanations” given for each profession, but it’s so short each time and doesn’t really say much.

Did you ever consider giving the Revenant a unique damage buff for Ventari? Perhaps convert Grace of the Land into a trait that gives a new boon that offers % damage? Make the boon rarer than Resistance and give it to Druid (by Grace of the Land trait) or Ventari revenant?

Also, when will the Revenant see any condition use in PvE? Allowing Torment to deal full damage on targets already alleviates many issues.

Derigar.7810:

Derigar.7810

/15 character limit

Who ever released me, thank you so, so much!

Derigar.7810

/15 character limit

DragoTheWise.7256:

Overall, the content and the story is enjoyable. I like the return of the hearts
If I had one quirk, it would be the cinematic. This happened with the previous episode were it was visually impressive, but the sound was hardly noticeable. It really lessens the impact of what you are seeing if the sound behind it is so low or doesn’t have that ‘umph’ it needs to drive it home.

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Example being the volcano. It almost erupts! But there isn’t any rumbling or cracking sounds. It is mostly silent with some music low key. Very disappointing. The second vision was a bit better, but still wasn’t very impactful.

Might be your sound settings. I heard a lot of rumbling and volcano-y sounds. Maybe the bass of your speakers or headset is very low?

Absolutely loved the map, the story, everything with it!
Didn’t like the apple achievement nor the 1000 gold achievement, but they’re nice niche goals so they’re completely welcome!
My big point of criticism is rewards. I find myself not having a reason to go back. Perhaps it’s the game in general.

I miss the times I was working towards my first set of Ascended gear. It was achievable within a reasonable time and you got a piece of your set not too slow and not too fast, giving you a big sense of progression.

I think that’s what I’m missing: good rewards. The gear treadmill doesn’t exist here, which is good. But a gear treadmill gives you a big goal to work towards. I don’t think I really have that in GW2. Legendaries aren’t worth the effort and time for me and I got most of my favorite char with full ascended gear already. There is no sweet spot in between those two.

I can’t find a solution directly but rewards have been a big point of discussion for a long time now. I’d like to see rewards that are worth my time and aren’t only cosmetic.

In short:
- I’m missing good, non-cosmetic long term rewards that we haven’t seen before.
- Masteries are gained way to quickly. I would’ve loved to play the map for at least 10 hours to get a certain mastery.
- Loving the extra lore tid-bits that are spread around.
- Harvest tools with additional effects: AMAZING!!
- Hearts with Karma rewards: AMAZING!!

Any news on this?
January gave us Winter
April gave us Spring
I’m expecting this month or the next to give Summer, or am I completely wrong on expecting it?

A while ago, we saw a simple message in the patch notes:

Magic energy has been surging around the ley lines.

This triggered small events in-game. People were ecstatic.
The ley lines even grew. Events were spreading as more time passed.

Today, we see this message:

Reports of banditry have increased in Kryta.

I can’t say how excited I am again for future releases now. I stopped playing and lost interest a few months after HoT released, but now these little teasers are bringing me back.

You got me hooked, well done!

Arenanet, you created a beautiful and elegant system called Specialisations. It allowed us to get consistent profession upgrades now, without any hassle or random skill additions.

Now I’m asking for you to finish the job. Please give every Skill branch an equal amount of skills to pick from. I know this is a lot of work, but this is a one-time job you’ll have to do. It’ll give every profession 2 more healing and 2 more elite skills. It will be glorious!

We got disappointed when you said Specialisation branches wouldn’t get released in Living world, and we understand that decision. But this is a perfect way to implement more skills in-between Expansions!

You can start by giving every profession 1 missing healing skill, and then half a year later 1 missing elite, and so on until every skill specialisation branch has 1 Heal, 4 Utility and 1 Elite.

I can’t see any reason for why this would be detrimental to the game. New skills = content which sees a lot more use. It could even spruce up PvP a lot, and WvW and PvE (in a smaller scale).

A reply to why not would be amazing. I just can’t see how adding 8 skills (except Revenant) to every class in half a year’s time intervals would be so hard to implement…

Thanks for considering.

PS: I apparently forgot 1 healing skill is not included in your training screen, which is very confusing… Perhaps add it for consistency as well?
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Examples:
Elementalist
Conjuring
- Heal: Mist Torches – Dual torches that give 5 healing skills. This is in complete contrast with Ice Bow, which is very offensive. Makes sense to give this skill Healing Power as a boost when wielded.

Signet
- Elite: Arcane Signet – Improves the recharge of elemental attunements, with them being instantly recharged at activation.

Arcane
- Elite: Arcane Surge – A critical Arcane Blast that activates an Arcane Wave when the target is hit. Grants the caster an Arcane shield.

Necromancer
Spectral
- Heal: Spectral Halo – Gain a spectral Halo, which turns condition damage on you into health.

Feel free to suggest some yourselves!

It really doesn’t. 1 second internal cooldown for removing conditions? Doesn’t do anything at all. Tested with my necro friend. Conditions don’t remove themselves at all…
Anyone else experiencing this?

Completely unjustified! This completely killed the feel on the class!
Who on earth passed this decision! You should fire his kitten on the spot! This class is ruined for me, PvM and PvP wise!

Myself, and many of my friends, are actually very disheartened with the introduction of raiding in this game.

The toxicity between players, the elitism, has never been higher. I tried many a times to get into a good raiding guild. I’ve done a LOT of effort, but I failed time upon time. I know for a fact I’m not the only one. Most of my friends have had this issue as well.

Raiding ruined this game for me. I don’t even feel the incentive to log in for my dailies any longer…

I’m refraining of buying any more gems for this game for quite a while. The focus here seems to be on content that a small percentage of the player base can complete and, let’s be fair here, is the most vocal & arrogant part of this community.

Christ, if I would put this on reddit the downvotes would crash the kitten site. I’m just sad that my will to play this game has disappeared (as have most of my friend’s).

This was a horrible move of yours, Arenanet. The game was build for the ones that liked to relax. This content takes it all away.

You know, I’ll be honest. I wouldn’t even mind it that much if the rewards of raids were only cosmetic. But they’re not. Legendary armor is a big reason for why many of my friends tried to get into raids. I really hope they’re adding a secondary way of obtaining it, otherwise I doubt Arenanet is going to see some veteran costumers going back to the game.

Derigar.7810:

Can someone tell me what trait is causing Thieves to be so strong? Just made one and I have no idea what I’m doing or looking at.

I love how I re-ignited a discussion completely irrelevant to what I was asking.

Can someone tell me what trait is causing Thieves to be so strong? Just made one and I have no idea what I’m doing or looking at.

So, I’ve been trying to get into a good EU raiding guild since the launch of raids, to no avail. I figured I could PUG it, but hearing an explanation and then failing the boss for the 7th time in a day, kind of made it a void effort after a while.

Now, the current issue is that raid groups require you to have legendary insights, which I’ve never been able to gather.

You have to be able to be experienced at raids to participate at raids, and if you missed out in the beginning by looking 24/7 for a group, you’re in deep kittene now.

This has basically killed my joy of playing the game. I was SO excited for legendary armor, but I can’t even start the first collection because I can’t get a single kill.

I was wondering if anyone else has less incentive to play as well, because most of my irl friends that play GW2 have left a month or two after the expansion for different reasons…

Ayrilana.1396:

Derigar.7810:

- Within 3 minutes the person hasn’t used at least 10 skills (including auto-attack).

They can just put a skill/utility on auto.

Derigar.7810:

- Within 5 minutes the person has not traveled at least 10,000 units.

Would cause a lot of people who are actively contributing to be kicked out.

10,000 units is 10 seconds walking. I doubt it.
You can’t put an auto attack on auto without a mob killing you before you kill it. HoT maps, not vanilla.

Criticism is a good idea when you can actually make a valid point.

I often command HoT maps. Let me tell ya, folks. It’s FRUSTRATING as hell to see people afk and do nothing at all. Just looking others do all the work.

So I propose a tagging system. If 5 people tag a person as “Leecher”, then a condition will be applied to said person. This condition will kick the player out of the map if:

- Within a minute the person has not moved nor used a skill.
- Within 3 minutes the person hasn’t used at least 10 skills (including auto-attack).
- Within 5 minutes the person has not traveled at least 10,000 units.

If they’re active, then there is no problem at all. It can be abused for people going to the bathroom or what ever, so this tagging can be countered.
Before someone goes afk, they get a boon. They can receive this boon by toggling a button in the “party” UI. This boon lasts for 5 minutes and keeps them save from tagging.

I hope a constructive conversation will follow, otherwise I won’t hesitate to report.

*Nickname (What you want us to call you): Derigar(Deri)
*Age: 20
*Gender: Male
*Location and time zone: Belgium & GMT +1
*Work/Study: Musician! Singer & songwriter and a producer too.
*Hobbies: Well, music lol.
*What is your GW2 account name: derigar.7810
*What Guild Wars 2 server are you currently located on: Blacktide
*Why do you want to join Mist Angels, what can you offer us: I can offer full ascended, berserker ele and full ascended, viper engineer. I’m very experienced with Elementalist and good with engineer!
*What do you hope Mist Angels will bring to you: A fun time, good fractal runs, social people and succesful raids.
*How did you hear about us: A facebook group member pointed this thread out!
*Present yourself in a few lines: Insane, creative, sociable, philosophical and pretty crazy.
*What are your ambitions in GW2: To have a full legendary set for my Elementalist
*What profession is your main character: Elementalist
*Why did you choose that profession: Because of Avatar the last airbender (Water FTW)
*What level is your main character: 80, 129 mastery (and rising), 83 personal fractal (and rising)
*What is your main character’s name: Derigar the great
*Are you interested in Raids: YES!!
*Do you have Ascended quality gear: Yes!!
*Are you part of another guild: Yes
*Are you also applying to another guild: Yes
*What type of player are you: In between hardcore and casual. (more towards the hardcore, however)
*What is your favourite activity in Guild Wars 2: I love to do fractals and Dragon’s Stand. I’m a big fan of PvP as well.
*What other game(s) do you play: Fallout 4, runescape
*We use Discord for a lot of our grouped fun, are you willing to install it? (no mic is needed, but it is welcomed): I already have Discord
*Anything else you would like us to know about you: I’m someone that likes communication when it comes to difficult or complex subjects, so hopefully this guild can provide it.
*Have you read our Mist Angels Code of Conduct and do you approve: Yes, I did

Hello, full ascended Elementalist & Engineer with matching food ready to go!
I’d be delighted with an invite!
- Kind regards

This thread is very hard to read… I love these kinds of threads, but please organise it a bit. Feel free to copy & paste. Please, for the love that all that is holy, don’t add trivial, uninteresting information like traits and stuff… A short description is enough.

De Dominator.9834:

Heart of Thorns has been out for a while now and many people have had time to try out and use the new elite specializations. Although there may be bug fixes and rebalancing that may be coming along, I feel a discussion on future ones should be had.

Guardian
Name: Paladin
Weapon: Axe or Warhorn
Description: Paladins would get access to Tome skills (Akin to their previous skills: Tome of Wrath/Courage ). These Tomes could serve similarly to the Engineers weapon kits, meaning they cannot swap weapons with this Elite spec.

Revenant
Name: Legendary Human Prince Rurik or Turai Ossa
Description: Both being warriors, the skills and abilities could be more combat focused with a nice mixture of offence and defence.

Name: Legendary Norn Asgeir Dragonrender
Description: Focusing primarily on summoning and being able to focus on summoning spirits of the wild (primarily the ones who where defeated by Jormag in defence of the Norn) like, Ox, Owl, Wolverine and Eagle. Could serve similarly to the Guardians spirit weapons.

Name: Legendary Charr Khan-Ur
Description: Could be technologically focused like the Charr are now.

Name: Legendary Asura Snaff
Description: Could focus on the use of Golems and telepathy, which his creations were known for.

Name: Legendary Sylvari Trahearne or Riannoc
Description: Both wielded Caladbolg. This profession could either be focused around stealing life and dealing condition damage.

Warrior
Incubent

Engineer
Name: Constructor
Description: The main skills would be all built items in the game that are target-able and have a degree of health to them to remove them. The class mechanic would be repair. Allowing you to repair and add health back to any of the constructed items.

Ranger
Name: Pactmaster
Weapon: Scepter (Whip)
Description: Handles a multitude of beasts, controlling as many as companions with their scepter-whips. They travel the world to gather some of the largest and most dangerous beasts for their pack, gaining the Minion utility skills type.

Thief
Name: Bard
Weapon: Focus
Description: The Bard would give the Thief access to new song skills which could serve a more support role, giving boons to allies and conditions to foes. These songs could be rather powerful boons which are constantly applied for as long as the song is played.

Elementalist
Name: Spellweaver
Weapon: Sword Main-hand
Description: The Spellweaver uses Physical skills. A new F5 skill called “Spellweaving”, which combines the elements of any Attunements currently on Cooldown. It weaves them into deadly elemental dances that simultaneously entrance and terrify those who bear witness to it.

Mesmer
Name: Bard/Minstrel
Description: Revolves around the use of new skills called “songs”. These are used to grant allies boons and give enemies debuffs. They can be played for an unlimited time but with the boons or conditions lasting only as long as it is played, the second the player moves or attacks, they break out of the skill.

Necromancer
Incubent

Still bugged… This is laughable. Not to mention highly unprofessional.

• Is your age over 18? (18+ required for raiding. Exeptions can be made but i would have to talk to you in game first about that.)

Yes

• Microphone/able to speak? (Required for raiding)

Yes

• Your main class/classes (Main needs to be condi engi for this case)

Engineer and Elementalist

• Previous raid experience (Need to have killed VG and Gorse, and know Sabetha fight from vids/experience)

Never killed any boss, but I know the VG mechanics perfectly. Haven’t killed it yet due to insufficient DPS from other pug-members. Never done Gorseval nor Sabetha. If it’s too much effort to make me learn the mechanics, then I suppose you can deny this application.

• How long have you played?

For over 1K hours at least, I should check in-game…

• Do you have other guilds?

Yes

• How active do you consider yourself?

Daily player, high level Fractal visitor (recently finished Unbound).

• Other info about yourself you want to share?

I like to make jokes and I’m a social person. Also I like kittens.

Hello ArenaNet, do you enjoy making buckets of money?
Then PLEASE consider making separate Aura slots. I, for one, would love to spend some gems on an amazing aura that would let flower petals fall around me, OR even have little hummingbirds follow me around (omg I’d die for that one).

Anyway, solving stuff like Queen bee and Nightfury is easy: Obtaining the skin also unlocks the “Aura skin” version.

Please consider this, it’s very clear that Aura’s are a very HoT topic! (See what I did there? My first successful pun in years!)

Sandpit that’s a good alternative! However, what if I’m in my typical city hub and want to find a good party for, let’s say, DS?

Just look at the attachment.
Please add more categories:
- VB
- AB
- TD
- DS
- SW
- TD
- Raids

It would solve SO many cluster issues…

Thank you for replying! I will look on my own accord then.

Seriously, if you think 82 is hell, try 94.

How do you complete these? The pre-final phase (with the forearms) is just ridiculous. Even with Defensive fractal potion, defensive food and toughness gear it seems nigh impossible to complete, especially with PUG’s…

Any hints or tips?

I don’t get the point of these forums. Nobody ever seems to reply or whisper.

Make Raids more PUG-able. I’m quite sick that this elitist content exists in this game. It’s not what this game was aimed for at!

More content in general. This year was a disaster in all honesty.

If I had to make a big, final decision, however, it would be that Anet would have a better internal communication. I heard many complaints of a friend of mine that works there. Apparently the higher-up’s scrap and change so many things last minute that it makes work conditions quasi unbearable.

Everytime I get a recipe book, I’m in a dilemma: What recipe did I unlock and what one didn’t I?

Could we PLEASE get a “locked” or “unlocked” tag on recipes? It’s quite annoying to write down the recipes you unlocked on a sheet of paper everytime I do SW or AB.

Secondly, could we get a “wardrobe” of recipes too? Similarly to how we see what skins we unlocked, or dyes we unlocked, we can see recipes. You can put achievements on that, so that it can count as active gameplay or what ever.

Please consider this helpful QoA.

I regularly command Dragon’s Stand.

You cannot believe the amount of kitten me, and other commanders, get when we are failing to complete a tower.
The funny part is, when you ASK people to stop and listen, or to join the squad, you sometimes get such a backlash that you feel like throwing your PC out of the windom.

I command because I like to help people, but I honestly feel like being treated like cr*p at times. Friendliest community? Try to command any HoT map.

Hello, I’m looking for a raiding guild. My stats:
- Tempest with full ascended gear and Berserker stats (sigils and runes as well) with 128 AR.
- Chronomancer
- Reaper
I play fractals on these 3 characters often, so I consider them all to have “ascended berserker gear”.

- Scrapper
- Herald
- Dragonhunter

I’m experienced with the Vale Guardian in particular and with high level fractals.

I hope I can hear from some people soon!

With kind regards
Derigar

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I suggest you start a brand new character and level up by playing the game, just like you would if you had bought the game and started playing. Jumping into a game at the end means you don’t know what’s going on or what to do or any of the lore of the game.

Yes because this game does so well at explaining anything lore wise…

Still looking for a guild!

Talindra.4958:

what is your play time during weekdays and weekends?
is CET 12:00 pm suit you?

Yes, it does!

After playing the Revenant for quite a while, I really have some issues with it… And it all comes down to how rigid they kept the class. I’ll keep it brief:

1) Stuck with utilities: Now I’m ok with the current method of locking utilities with each Legendary. I think it’s a great system and refreshing! What I cannot understand, however, is the choice of locking only 3 utilities to each legendary. I think they mainly did it because of lack of time to implement more.

My suggestion: Add 1 more utility for each legendary (unfortunately, they’ll never do it because of Glint… But one can dream). This will add more diversity in which utilities each legendary can make, and make the class a LOT less predictable. Everyone knows that if someone procs Impossible Odds, they’re probably going in for the kill. A simple block usually takes care of that… So you can see how this wouldn’t harm the profession in any way…

2) Racial skills: Yes, they are useless but I’m one of those people that likes to use them for fun in large-scale PvE events. As a Sylvari Herald, especially, binding roots is an amazing break bar skill and it really annoys me that I cannot equip or use it, despite being. a… sylvari.

3) No profession-mechanic stat: Every stat has a mechanical stat. Elementalists have recharge time on attunements, Engineers have recharge time on toolbelt skills, etc…

Why doesn’t the revenant have this? The higher your Energy Conservation stat (or what ever it’ll be called is) the slower your energy will be consumed on upkeep skills.

Ok, so far my feedback on the Revenant. My closing statement basically is: Please give the revenant more playfulness in their builds. Currently they’re very “locked” in their possibilities, even with their traits… (If you pick Shiro, you’re almost guaranteed to pick Devastation, besides: everyone runs with Invocation and Herald most of the times, with the 3rd trait line being your only real choice.)

Thank you

Hello all! I’m looking for a raiding guild situated in Europe.

I currently have the following classes (in order of how well I’ve mastered them):
- Tempest
- Herald / Reaper
- Scrapper
- Chronomancer

My tempest is in full Ascended, with berserker outfit.

I’m willing to change class, build, runes, stats, anything to fit in the guild if they demand so.

What I DO not want is a guild that “thinks” to be good at raiding, but has to explain the mechanics again, every boss fight we attempt.

Thanks!

Well, I think the current problem is purely a lack of maps. The maps are too complex, which is fun for a week, but after that you really begin to want more different themes and maps…

I completely agree, to be honest. I’m just grinding my way with Dragon’s Stand to get the experience for masteries. And I got a side mission that consists of making Trailblazer gear for my necro, except that Trailblazer can’t be obtained. At all…

This expansion was more of a patch I’m beginning to think…

I frequently use the LFG like most people do, but since yesterday I can’t join any party anymore “because you’ve recently joined too many parties”…

The best part? I logged in today and it said the same thing!

Is this a bug?

Treasure mushrooms? Ley line gliding…?

Come on. It’s a massive amount of experience gated behind an abysmally small amount of content. I wouldn’t mind getting this much experience if I knew I’d get something good out of it, like a whole new area for example. It just seems pointless to do so much effort for so little reward.

When they announced masteries, I was very excited on the prospect of, maybe seeing 25% of all content? With masteries the percentage would obviously increase. Instead we got 50% of content unlocked with no masteries, and 95% unlocked with the first tiers of masteries unlocked.

It honestly saddens me that they released this expansion way to soon. When it’s ready? When they’ve run out of money seems a better punch line for them to use now.

PS: I was expecting to get hyped for the next story arch, but that even fell dry and dead. I bought this game for the story, and the expansion was no exception. Why did they disappoint with the story so much? You have no IDEA how much I wanted to feel hyped for the next season of story/expansion… Instead I got disappointment.

It’s bugged and ArenaNet doesn’t even want to come out and say it… It’s just horrid.

Any specific reason to why you need 720 tokens to get the 6 runes needed? It’s a RIDICULOUS requirement!!! The only good Condition rune and you made it completely unobtainable… At least make them tradaeble please!

I LOVE the fact that you encourage us to try out more builds now. I was sick and tired of the Zerker meta, but I’m extremely happy that more builds are welcome now!

Except that it isn’t. I made my elementalist ascended berserker gear. I equipped it with expensive runes of the scholar. I bought ascended trinkets with zerker gear (especially the guild-gated ascended trinkets, took me 4 months to get enough points since I can’t run guild missions most of the time when most guilds do).

So, I was very excited to learn about legendary armors! It is amazing that we can finally swap stats on it! We also got a backpack and of course the weapons. What saddens me so much, however, are the runes & sigils.

IF, in the case, that I do make my full legendary gear for my Elementalist, it is almost useless for me to swap stats without getting full synergy BECAUSE of the Runes & Sigils. It’s those that are handicapping the purpose of Legendary gear.

So I’m actually asking for a simple addition, that is the inclusion of Legendary sigils and runes. Only on legendary items can these sigils and runes be applied, and they have the effect that it can change to any rune or sigil in-game as well.

My solution of making them? You must combine most runes and sigils currently in-game to get this Legendary one. Future sigils & runes will automatically be added to the library of these items.

Please Arenanet, I’m begging you for this. For the sake of completing your system, do not leave it half-made like some of your great systems.

Derigar.7810:

Hello!

As a fresh member of the game, the lore the games offered really interested me! So, after searching the internet on this topic, I found out that besides the 5 original dragons, a 6th one might be in the make…

To quote the official Wikia:

The jungle dragon, referred to as Mordremoth, is mentioned in ancient texts unearthed by the Durmand Priory. This dragon has not yet been observed to have any noticeable impact on the world. As such, its state is unknown and information about the Elder Dragon is highly limited, leaving most of which can only be speculated. Colin Johanson mentions the Maguuma Jungle in reference to this dragon.

Now this really triggered my interest!

Do you think this dragon will enter the gaming world soon?

Personally, I think this dragon will be the focus of the next expansion pack of GW2, opening the Maguuma area for exploration.

Thanks for reading!

Holy kitten. Sorry if I bumped this, but… Holy kitten.

So I’m trying to make a “to-do” list for my game-time (yes I’m that kind of person) and I’d like to see other people’s list as well. I enjoy having goals to work towards and it makes me happy.

So, this is my list:

- Get exotic gear for all my 6 characters.
- Get the elite specs unlocked
- Unlock the ascended weapon for them
- Craft the legendary backpack
- Get the 250 bloodstone consumer

Perhaps even get full legendary armor, but I probably won’t do that until they release Legendary sigils and runes.

Seems like I did a good thing making ascended before the expansion…

Kal Spiro.9745:

Derigar.7810:

Why is literally nobody replying… It’s not a difficult question.

If it’s not a difficult question, why are you even asking it? Obviously you could just get the answer yourself, like you apparently expect everyone else to be able to do.

I don’t like your tone. I asked this question because the question and probably the answer is a simple one. However, nobody has the answer except for some people that may have accidently stumbled upon it.

Also thanks to the rest for answering the actual question! I hope Anet notices it…

Why is literally nobody replying… It’s not a difficult question.