Guild Wars 2

I would love some classic gw1 skins for my ranger, espically the druid one.

or please could you bring back Rox’s quiver for 3 days >< I missed it because I quit and now I see it and my Infused Quiver looks so bad compared to it

Theres a simple fix make Ascended gear like Legendary and just have “Select stats” option but make it cost like the same as a trait reset… Done (Y)

I still feel they just need to make other stuff viable nerfing Zerker doesnt solve a lot and annoys like 90% of the PvE players who already dont have a lot to cling on to currently :P

I personally feel if they wanted to nerf zerker or change how the meta is they should of done it when Ascended gear got put in the game, the grind to get a full set is a lot and to make zerker not viable and make carrion the best would annoy a lot of people

I think the only thing they can do is make other builds viable and just hope people use them over Zerker…

Something they could do is reset all the stats for Ascended gear so you can test builds and then decide instead of forcing you to grind again for laurels mats gold etc

I came back to the game like 2 weeks ago after taking a 4 month break, the game seems fresh and fun again, I logged on and caught up on what’s happen in Guild wars spoke to some people I use to play with and they told me about the new ascended stuff so I knew I would need to now grind this for high end fractals but also the % of stat increase.

I play MMOs purely for the PvE so I was instantly looking at the current Ranger meta and what builds are viable and learning it, the gear meta when I left was Zerker and still was so I started working on a full ascended set, have 5/6 but will be 6/6 by reset, I have invested gold, time and just generally a huge amount of effort to get the set.. I feel like if Anet just do what some MMOs do and go hey nerf that stat so it becomes so underwhelming that every1 switched to Carrion like if they removed condi cap…

Now Im not saying the only thing they can do is nerf it, looking at the situation and how expensive and time consuming it is with Laurels to get the recipes and just yeah blah blah I feel the ship has sailed they cant “Nerf” Zerker they need to buff other things to make them viable, if they nerf Zerker a massive storm of complaints will come there way, so I feel they need to make condi cap higher so its just more viable.

They could now thinking of it basically be like we have updated the meta every1’s ascended gear has been Reset to Blank stats and you can pick what you want, this would be hard to justify but its possible :/

I do agree PvE can be really boring because its just Zerker this Zerker that…. but if they nerf it and make Carrion best it will be just Carrion this Carrion that… so I think they just have to make other stuff more inviting and viable to try.

I feel like some of the problem comes from classes more than the gear meta anyway, when I pug like 80-90% of it is like looking for mes.warrior,guardian…. zerker only. I know other classes are viable but many cant be bothered to even give them a look in as there are classes who do Zerker better than others… that is what needs to be addressed.. As I said I am a ranger I wish we were a little more viable I think were fine if played correctly but I wish Pets were a tad better and we got a slight buff but I cant complain.

Overall I think the game needs a re balance in classes, after that then look at the gear meta, its like take WoW for example certain classes go for X secondary stat over others due to talents. its a mix but you will always have one that is far better than another, they nerf zerker something else will take its place and we start the cycle again…

I honestly think the ship has sailed when it comes to a nerf to zerker they need to just buff other builds and hope they become viable and played.

how much karma a hour is this farming method?

the more I read theories the more I want to try and figure out where this is, Ive been thinking and it may be nothing but the Gargoyle that sits on the staff did anyone think about this?

Looking back at the lore of gw1 leading to gw2 the Gargoyles just vanished "1185AE Gargoyles mysteriously vanish from Ascalon”…

There is some speculation where they went but I think maybe this means we can rule out Orr? If I remember rightly Gargoyles still exist just in the Mad king realm of the underworld hence why they come out at Halloween. So maybe Shadow behemoth opening portals from the Underworld allows a Gargoyle to escape and find the owner of the staff. it spawns a “demonic” chest the staff looks pretty demonic so yeah id say that this event is pretty much it.

If its not the Shadow event then I think its somewhere in Ascalon, Gargoyles mostly lived in Ascalon and it Catacombs so maybe there could be a rare event somewhere in Ascalon or even a common event people rarely do that is based underground.

The last idea to go with gargoyles is the fact the ones that lived in kryta where mostly by the sea so maybe the ones that where left behind just got washed away and there could be a event underwater somewhere in the water but I cant think of any “Large” chest events underwater

anyway yeah if i was to place a bet id go with shadow behemoth, more and more people are starting to do this event so maybe we will see one soon, if not there could be a special timer or trigger, for example it was only able to drop during Halloween when gargoyles made a appearance with mad king or maybe when the event occurs at a special time/day/full moon/wearing odd socks/eating only salad.

Been getting some random disconnects today and also last night during peak times and since the frost and flame path i have been suddenly experiencing random lag periods that cause TP and also in game combat to delay its horrible to play with i understand a lot of others are reporting the same issue…. can we have a update from a nice Anet person on this as its causing some distress and meaning game play is pretty much terrible.

Well since the frost and flame path i have been suddenly experiencing random lag periods that cause TP and also in game combat to delay its horrible to play with i understand a lot of others are reporting the same issue…. can we have a update from a nice Anet person on this as its causing some distress and meaning game play is pretty much terrible.

adding my name to this thread, just like other people roughly around the patch I started to get this issue it mostly happens in Lions arch when im on the TP and it makes it really slow only other times ive had it was once in TA it caused my chat to be so laggy around 2 mins behind and then dc’ed and then once I couldn’t log on due to this error so.

hope theres a fix coming soon

About 2 days ago I started to experience really slow loading Trading post times for example I would click on the item and it would be blank then around a minute later it would load and then it would take around a minute to list its pretty stupid. I thought it was just the TP but it seems even the loader is slow when im logging in and always when the news feed is loading etc.

I have done multiple speed tests and checked my lines and everything is fine im getting the speed I have gotten since I first had this game so I just wanted to know is anyone else experiencing these issues and if so is it just the patch/maintenance that has caused it.

anyone else having a massive issue with the TP 502 and just always loading and when you get through to buy something it takes like 2 mins for the buy orders to even appear :/

The guys and girls with The Dreamer must be having such a great laugh at this thread from the amount of QQ

Name: Storm Bow
Type: Longbow
Effect: Lightning emitting from the bow.
Reason: I miss the gw1 Storm bow sometimes have to log on to gw1 to be like i miss you http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storm_Bow

When I first started my Ranger I was hoping that Arena net had bought back the Storm bow from GW1 and made it Legendary but when the closet item to it was Aether/Azureflame I kind of said I would rather just go for a legendary.

I then looked at both Kudzu and The Dreamer and personally I felt The Dreamer was better I thought the Animation of the rainbows was cooler that kudzu’s flowers and also the Model for The Dreamer was just better with the tassels and the flowing colours. I obtained it like what 2 weeks ago and have been happy to log in and just randomly shoot it’s just amazing.

I love the serious Legendarys but I feel that some of the silly ones are just nice to have and see it adds to the game and when they changed the animation to what is it now i was like My rainbows are gone noooo! but after one fractal and some Orr farming I was in love with it, Its more detailed and its just a nicer animation in my opinion and honestly i just don’t see what there is to complain out… if you don’t like it don’t get it?! save up for something that might or might not be added in the next expansion etc or get a different legendary like Kudzu or get a exotic that is beautiful like Aether/Azureflame.

If you don’t like seeing it around you don’t have to look at it before I obtained it and since I obtained it I’ve seen a roughly 10 maybe 15 people tops with this weapon so your not going to be spending a huge amount of time with them so what if your running through Lions arch and you see someone shooting it just turn your head… Its there game as well…… they might not like your armor set or your broom lol.

You cant please everyone in games and this is one thing people have to put up with and stop creating QQ threads on the forums the amount of them is just ridiculous and people need to stop crying for this to be removed because “they don’t like it, its ruining my immersion!” should seriously just move on and accept that its part of the game lighten up! laugh a bit even smile maybe

soooooooo gooooood!

Thanks for the terrible warning Anet :P restart in 1 hour 45 mins and we get thrown out of a fractal when were half way through the last one of the set thanks a bunch

883Mb and 57% here

Would be a really good idea

When I was Karma farming in Orr I found that while just doing all the camp events, Plinx and pretty much the rest of them you pick up Large bones/claws and Venom sacs and then you have all the heavy loot bags which can contain t5/6 mats.

The Dreamer is amazing i mean come on Rainbows!

8-12 man UW/FoW zones like in gw1 would do perfectly

yes but that’s the way guild wars has always done it, once you have run about and Discovered it you can then have the quick travel if you want to, they choose Waypoints over Mounts in gw2 its easier and simpler once you have experienced the big open world you can then jump to places it doesn’t make it feel any smaller it just means you can get to places you’ve been easier.

Pretty much my stand point on this is they should never ever introduce mounts unless in the expansion they make the maps bigger so it would still feel huge when your traveling.

There is enough cosmetic that they don’t need to add it that’s the point why waste time and resources on something that is good. They could spend that money and development time on a area of the game that needs fixing instead of introducing more cosmetics that people don’t need.

See when i have gone round areas in the past on a mount it just takes away and then when i go back to the zone later on in the game im like i never noticed that as your on a mount and just were mindlessly running past it.

Personally coming from a big mount collector in WoW, i collected like 160+? spent so much gold on them and spent countless hours working towards them. I feel that mounts when there in a game are the most prestige’s objects that people notice over weapons and armor. When in Guild wars 1 weapons and armor was the most prestige’s objects and they wanted to carry that on and I feel there is no need for either mounts for a cosmetic purpose nor is there for a traveling purpose nor is there one for a combat purpose.

so overall: No

I know not all of the features appeal to every player but most do and if they dont they wouldnt be playing i mean for example if your into pvp theres WvW and Spvp etc, if your into PvE theres dungeons/fractals, if your into cosmetics theres Endless amounts of gear/armor to work towards, if your into exploring you wouldn’t want a mount to ruin the experience when i did the rest of my 100% map completion it would of made it easier but it would of taken away from so much of the experience like walking past certain towns or places that you would literally just blitz past on a mount.

Correct working towards gear gives you no advantage much like in gw1 it just makes your character look cool that’s the point its nice but there’s no need for more of it as i know once i compete set 1 i know there’s a set 2 i already have my eyes on. Adding yet another cosmetic would in my eyes be pointless as someone said a mount takes so much away from your character people just focus on your mount its like when i walk into a town on WoW and saw a mount i liked i would be like that’s nice if i saw a gear set i liked i wouldn’t really notice it as it seems so small compared to it.

so taking the above example I walk into Lions arch and see someone on a nice mount id be like WoW that’s cool next to him is a guy with a nice armor set i aint going to notice that guy there’s a huge mount on my screen! :P

You say your not 80 so are your not enjoying the expereince of having to walk everywhere personally i love that aspect.

The waypoint system doesn’t discourage people exploring its like i discovered all of Orr great i can now waypoint to places i need to because i have explored it all and gotten all the waypoints if people choose to just get points they need that’s up to them a mount wont change that, a mount won’t change people into explorers it will change them into afking in Lions arch on them.

So the only reason you would keep playing is if they introduced mounts? the way your saying mounts should be is pretty much like WoW where you can buy a terrible brown horse for 5g and ride around done or you can hardcore raid and get a beautiful skin and be like hey look at me when you afk. thats what mounts are there another way to show off to the community and your friends.

I would hate if mounts got put into this game the reason I left WoW was because I wanted to play a game like gw1 as i loved the hell out of that game and how it felt unique and there wasn’t stuff like mounts.

If you say there would be many different mounts then the community will complain trust me when you see people riding around on mounts like swift spectral tiger or a end tier boss mount in WoW people QQ about how they want that but cant do that content and it feels like there gating you from it. the difference between a snowy gryphon and a Netherdrake.

Its something to work towards sure but there’s plenty for people to work towards and with them bringing new stuff into the game pretty much every update you wont need this you have all these different areas that are good they work there fun you don’t need mounts.

Also cosmetic items in a game are nice sure but in gw2 you have tones same as you did in gw1 the options for Armor skins and Weapon skins are endless so why would they bring mounts in for cosmetic purposes? Travel isn’t a issue neither is lack of content neither is lack of cosmetic features.

a lot of people want it because the waypoint system feels strange but i feel like standing in Lions arch with everyone on mounts would be horrid i like to see everyone just walking about.

If it was a treadmill people would complain as only certain people would have them much like Legendary’s get QQ and so does Ascended items.

If it was only for higher level people whats the point? you say exploring but once I was 80 i had around 65% map exploration done and got 100% within the next 2 days and now I just roam around Orr and Lions arch and look for some groups here and there for dungeons so if it was only for 80’s there would be 0 point as you can just waypoint to exactly where you need to go for pretty much nothing. So pretty much the only time Id be on my mount is stood in Lions arch along with everyone else or every so often use it when im farming in Orr? id rather just waypoint/run as I like seeing peoples gear and other designs they have rather than there horse.

Making mounts match your normal speed would be disgusting it would be like the those Halloween broomsticks for your level 1 twinks on WoW it would look so silly.

the only way they would ever introduce mounts like Selebrity said is in the Gem store and it would be like £25-30 for one and that is if the game was doing terribly and they needed money which they don’t.

I agree Zeefa Im working towards the Dreamer and I could of gone for gear or other things but i wanted to put my time into something I can log on and be like “This is awesome!” and I think a Legendary gives Prestige but sure it might not be as much as certain other items or gear. for example I saw someone with Azureflame they went for that instead of Kudzu as they wanted something that reminded them of Storm bow from GW1 so i mean its all about what you want/like.

I don’t think mounts and legendarys are the same at all :P a Legendary shows that a player has put in some effort to achieve it unless your saying that the mount would have to be crafted with similar amounts of gold and mats that a legendary does then there nowhere near the same.

I agree it would encourage people to explore but it would make the zones feels so small a reason people love guild wars is because it feels so big gw1 did the same and adding mounts would mean your running around just finding everything so quickly.

It would be cool to run around on them in WvW but it would affect gameplay a fair bit, i don’t play WvW that much but imagine if your scout has said there all at point X and you start on a gate that’s at point Y they will get to you so quick it would be silly.

Its a nice idea but i wouldn’t want it

Mounts would in my opinion be pointless the waypoint system is nice. A mount would make everything feel a lot smaller which would suck, they only situation i could see one being nice in is maybe WvW but even then might be overkill and make stuff to small.

but yes i do agree mounts are cool! when I played WoW I loved getting on my Ashes or Swift spectral tiger.

As some have suggested just bring back the UW/FoW 8-12 style gw1 zones and make a special armor like Obsidian armor which was in gw1 equal to the current armor rating which was 70 if I remember right.

this would in my opinion be amazing it would be a nice skin and people can work towards it, it would be a lot of mats to make like gw1 and this would mean people casual and hardcore can work towards it.

Im pretty sure they will add a 8-12 man UW or FoW style dungeons into the game but they wont be classed as raids they will be elite zones which I would be so happy to see

Here is how I would do the “Scavenger hunt”.

Before I start the values given are what I personally would find acceptable/doable but in others eyes may seem to low or to high.

Basically to start the whole process there is a NPC in lions arch he is stood next to the Mystic forge called “Scavenger Samuels”. When you talk to him he tells you a story in text of a weapon that could be yours! its power is capable of becoming “Legendary”. After this he says if you do some things for me I might be able to obtain such a weapon for you. You then have 2 options,
A. Where do I begin?
B. No thanks.
(You choose A)
He says firstly you need to acquire “Gift of the Precursor” for me. This is done by putting the following into the Mystic forge.
1.Gift of Gold = 25g bought from Miyani.
2.Gift of the Achiever = X crowns (the new Achievement system)
3.Gift of Knowledge = 4 Jumping puzzle coins, 2 coin = 4 scraps, you obtain scraps from any jumping puzzle chest meaning you need to do 8 to achieve this you then put 4 scraps into the mystic forge to create 2 coins.
4a.Gift of Crafting = recipe can be bought from Miyani for 2g, It requires 5 Globs of ectoplasm, 10 of each tier 5 fine material (potent venom sac etc)
OR (not sure which would be better)
4b. Gift of Karma = 250k Karma, bought from Miyani

You now place all 4 into the mystic forge to get “Gift of the Precursor”

Once you have obtained this item you return to Scavenger Samuels and he says excellent! but how do I know you are worthy of such a weapon? I need to see your power, your strength and your determination! this isn’t easy for me to get so i need to see you fight!
Your then given a new update to do 2 objectives.
1. Get 100 WvW kills insignias (these are not badges of honor :P they are given when you kill a player you can only obtain 100)
2. 120 of 1 type of Dungeon token (so TA or CoF or HotW for example)
3. 30 Fractal relics
4. Claw of a Dragon (this will be obtained through doing one of the dragon events and looting the chest)
Now you have all of these put them into the mystic forge to create “Gift of Worth”

Now you go back to Scavenger Samuels.
Well done! so you were worth the effort I put in to obtaining these weapons! now you have Gift of Worth and Gift of the Precursor you may select which one of these you would like.
You are Presented with a list of the Precursors you select one and he says “A fine choice but are you sure you want X” you can preview the weapon and stats etc.
Lets say I pick “The lover” after saying yes I am sure it gives me String of the Lover and Short-bow Stave of the Lover.

Now you have 4 items to place into the mystic forge which are
“Gift of the Precursor”
“Gift of Worth”
“String of the Lover”
“Short-bow Stave of the Lover”

This creates me “The Lover” which is Account bound.
Personally I would make it Account bound so you cant just sell it on but I wouldn’t go as far as Soulbound but that’s just me.

After all of this Scavenger Sam sticks around in Lions arch and you can talk to him and he offers to sell you another Precursor now you have proved your worth for 150 gold.
I feel this still makes getting one from a random drop, mystic forge or chest exciting and an amazing moment but it allows people who aren’t lucky or don’t have multiple characters to just buy one if they want to.

The Crafting/Karma one is sort of a option I didn’t know which would be more accepted by the community as for a legendary right now you need to farm like 1 Million karma and although to me it doesn’t take the long you add another 250k to that people might go insane :P/

Overall the “Scavenger hunt” idea is amazing and the amount you could do with it is Incredible its an area that I think would be a lot of fun to work on and I can remember the Dev’s name but they must be having some fun with this.

Also the values I gave through out this were just what seemed reasonable to me, Would be awesome to hear your thoughts on what you feel the Scavenger hunt system might entail and the numbers you think they might get us to do.

Apologies for some of my English.

I really enjoyed UW and FoW but i feel if they put them into gw2 it would sort of ruin those memories you have from gw1 and also if they didn’t do it justice people im pretty sure gw1 players would complain.

that said they could try and re make one of them and see how it goes/how the community reacts.

Fizzlepip i 100% agree that The lover has vanished all of last week there was like 4-5 up all the time whenever i checked i finally got enough gold for one and suddenly there gone there’s been none over the last 24 hours and well looking at the bids it goes from 207g to 300g not sure when the gap was put in but if it was after they disappeared would match the scooped theory.

After this i spent around 60g on the MF and got around 1/3 of my money back but no precursor so i stopped would rather just wait for one to appear on the TP.

Are there any Professions you feel need major changes? if so when will they be coming?

Will the rate that you acquire badges of honor increase at all? for example capturing towers gives 2 badges etc

You said on the live stream Ascended items will be available through the new achievement rewards. What pieces of Ascended gear can we expect to be able to be bought from them? i.e rings or new pieces?

Allisa is 100% right when they say, “Oh yes, and DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT GRINDING!! You don’t have to – you choose to, to get the skin you want.”

A legendary is “Legendary” for a reason, i mean it doesnt require a certain skill to get it just requires you to work hard in many different areas, i started just before Xmas and i only need 230 badges of honor, TA Tokens and around 120k before i have all the gifts. the money wasnt a issue for me while farming my 1million karma in Orr you earn so much gold and tier 5/6 mats that its just not really a issue. I mean When you finish a Legendary im pretty sure the feeling you will get will be Legendary

the only part of the legendary which im not enjoying is the badges of honor but that’s because i haven’t really got into the WvW scene.

If money is a issue for everyone trying to go for a legendary then either go for a cool weapon skin instead of just start farming in Orr or learn to play the TP. I currently make around 12-15g a day from farming in Orr and every so often you get those nice exotics that sells for like 2g and unlike some i always “id” my dyes and you get lucky for example 9g black dye yesterday.

Also a really easy method is the TP if you cant beat them join them isn’t that a saying :P i find that learning about a auction house in any game is easy you just work out profit margins and dip into different markets and eventually gold starts to come in i made around 50-60g from selling tier 3-5 mats when i first started over Xmas. There might be some people going well why should i learn just to make gold, gold should be easier to make…. If gold was easier to make and you had more of it the prices would go up and the TP farmers would have more gold, I learn’t this from WoW when there was suddenly more money everything shoots up in price.

Overall i think people just need to accept in games there will always be these people who like shiny gold and want a lot of it. Its not a issue its just normal for a game and just because you see people with a legendary or thousands of gold or even both doesn’t mean you to cant have that to! if you plan to play the game for years to come and your enjoying it then trust me you will get one.

Pretty sure after the dev saying we wanted to add another “chance” of getting a precursor means the gear boxes have a chance at dropping your precursor maybe?

in the future it would be a cool idea if they had some sort of item you had to buy for example you have to buy Gift of Achievement for X points which is part of the scavenger hunt.

I did the 1 clover recipe i wanted to go for the 10 but i dont think i could take the bad procs to heart :P i used like 245 obi shards overall. i did a final round of 150 today to get my final 40, i didnt mind to much that it was less than 33% because i was proccing obi shards from the clover recipe at one point and t6 mats are nice to have.

the only part about clovers was when you dntt make a single clover in 10 and you are like what is this! then you make like 4 in a row and your like Aweee yeah :P

Thanks for some of the tips guys ive been doing the jumping puzzle on my main and some alts, whoever said the tip about new low levels is a genius! level 2 warrior with the warhorn is perfect spamming that now just getting as many as i can while no1 is about. getting like 4-5 badges everytime.

Ive been enjoying getting my legendary so far i mean everything about it is legendary and the scale of the parts you need is amazing, Im going for the short bow as you know rainbows etc. I got the 77 clovers from roughly 245-250 and now im getting karma for the rest of the shards, the tier 6 mats i just get randomly racked up around 60 of each and the rest seems to come together quite nicely for example ore/wood and the orbs etc.

The only part that when i first set my eyes on the list that really made sigh and go grrr was the badges of honor i mean i don’t mind pvp but i don’t enjoy it a lot…. When i first stepped into WvW i was like great 500 kills is all i need we can do this then i found out not 100% from players…. ok i got over that but im currently getting them at like less than 5% from players Ive had 30 from map discovery i got ported to a JP for like 9 and vast majority of the 127 i have are from the main camp/tower guards.

It feels like 500 is either way to much or the drop rate is way to low personally when i log on now and im like pvp time i just sigh and start to cry a little because i don’t enjoy it one bit i find it slow and then when you get into a big fight kill 15-20 people and you see 0 bags drop its like great that was amazing what is the point :P i feel like it shouldn’t be 1 per person that would be far to easy but like 1 every 3 or 4 not like 18-22 as im finding currently.

Also yes i understand “you could do all 3 BL jumping puzzles and the EB one everyday there easy” im well aware there “easy” for some but it seems whenever im in pvp im on a short fuse i went into the BL we own today and was like right im going to do this and learn it and make sure i do it on alts. I was half way through and BAM 3 people just are sat there ready to kill me and its like well this is fun. so i went and tried the other 2 same it seems like people just sit in there i had tried before when i first started and remember the exact same situation and it just frustrates me the fact you can be attacked during them….

I just wanted to know other peoples input on that subject and weather there is any other way to get badges Ive missed or if there is anything that works for people who have done the grind.