Guild Wars 2

same for me, most weapons are not in the collection

Like many ppl on reddit mentioned, I can confirm now myself:
If you unlock the autoloot mastery and activate it, the client constantly crashes.

I like how fast the game goes from one phase to another having the player constantly to adapt.
But at the same time i hate it, because most people don’t keep up with it and get stuck in some things throwing the game.

For me the problem of this gamemode is that random teams will never ever (at least without build templates) have the right setup for this or coordination.
The chance of them having the right amount of players for each objective (some need offensive stats, some defensive) is low and on top of that they can not communicate well and therefore not coordinate.
This gamemode will be mainly for premade teams and not for random partys without voicechat.

+1
The amount of things to do simultaneously breaks the 5 man cap but I would say 6-8 people would be better than 10.

Big Tower.5423:

The Queue works now, it’s just very slow! (Like 30 min)

Over a hour by now, it even stopped showing the actual time…
Screen was taken ~ 15 mins ago

Edit:
time to play on second account on other side of the world since main account seems stuck

Laraley.7695:

That’s not true. People had issues since the beginning of the beta.

I don’t want to argue with you about when people started having queue problems.
Even without the problems it seems not enough players are there for good queue times (I thought maybe the beta changes that). This sucks, but I can’t help it, just wanted to mention this, because I think anet want’s to know why people are leaving. For me it’s the queue times.

Laraley.7695:

I get that but if you know most people can’t queue, why complain about queue time? It’s irrelevant.

Because it was already that bad when people had no issues. Also it’s the reason I quit this game each time.

wow can’t queue at all now, it’s greyed out.
Any1 else?

I’m enjoying my afktime
- irony off
Edit: quick queue time update from ~30 minutes to 50+ minutes

Can I make a 1 man team and don’t show up, so the cup can at least be fought out by the 4 normal teams?

Laraley.7695:

Newsflash, people can’t queue.

I noticed like you may could see in my original post on the top of this page. But back then there where still too long queue times …

Luna.9640:

I thought we was supposed to have a Stronghold open beta and not PvP Queue Stress Test today.

I’m missing something ?

Couldn’t have said it better

silvermember.8941:

1. It is the middle of a workday in NA also long queue has nothing to do with stronghold, did you think strong hold was going to magically increase the PvP Pop?
2. duh
3. It is beta, that is what beta are designed for.

1. I’m on EU and there should be the most people online right now. Still 7-12 minute queues (and the time is still going up) … (at least the Beta should have brought back a few people (it brought at least me)). But seeing this I’m leaving again, I have no intention to wait longer than I play.
3. But it is a polished beta close to be finished. They already showed it at pax and I’m sure the product we get won’t differ much or at all from what we see now.

exactly that was the reason i quit my friend

No SAB confirmed, April fool is being a plane Kappa.

RATA SUM BURNS!

I agree with OP, I like it having some money out of my mind.
Also it’s just dumb i have to use my guild bank for this and in total right now 5 guild banks for items because my normal bank is full.
I use multiple money depositions because I keep track of my trading income in that way.
It’s way cheaper to use banks instead of (new accounts and) new characters that’s even more stupid.
300 Slot guild bank costs ~110g, if you buy characterslots with gems and so on, it costs way more for the same storage and accounts cost real money. The bad thing is now my main account has no space for guilds anymore and i have to start using a second account for more guild banks.
Also guild banks are bad to handle since you cant quickly move in and out items – you have to manually klick and draw each one out. I HATE THIS SYSTEM. It’s just bad design for people who are dealing with a huge amount of items.

The RIOT is real

… i have no words for it.

Beta impression:
Glider:
- fun
- but lag or ping issues will make this unplayable, because of the delay that the glider already has default – people with bad connections won’t make some of the flights to hard to reach locations

Mushrooms:
- interesting

Masteries in general:
- UI is not good looking; needs implementation in Hero Panel. If you activate it it takes half of the screen away and is just bad to handle.
- The first two available ones only needed 1 level up to unlock after you spent your mastery points on them. Hopefully the later ones will take more

Revenant:
- Class seems very “slow”, but this may be only caused by the two tanky stances
- Hammer 3 feels not right, the animation sometimes fails. I would rather like it to be a port instead of a range dps . To keep distance to your enemys and make up for some interesting playstyles
- The available traitlines dont seem to have really good traits compared to other classes

Stability:
- No crashes, no frame issues
- some lag around the half time of the beta

General:
- Some of the new things seem not fully finished, like the flamethrower; the handling is sometimes wired and pulls you in one direction
- Found new mushrooms which drop new items
-> Cooking 500?

congratz to OE
/15

would there be the possibility of showing us these reports?
would be interesting since they should represent all the forum users i guess.
i like it if everything is open and visible for everyone.
you may don’t show who wrote which one, but i think it would be nice if we could see what its all about.

My questions:
- do the 50% dmg reduction buff stack, so if you have 2 heroes you get 100%?
- can you stealth the lord when he is down, so he will stop attacking?

Not sure if this was was intended or not but:
- winning gives only after 10 times a reward (and with daily 1x each day after 5 wins)
- loosing does not give any rewards
- automatic swapping to the loosing team does not give you the win which it does in normal pvp
- 5v3 or 5v4 are too long without balancing, causing the game to be onesided for way too long

-> everything of the above causes ppl to ragequit and make the game even more one sided

All those points above make dragon bash unrewarding and not much fun, because every time you loose a game, you feel like you wasted your time (game is fun and stuff, but there are hundrets of other things that make as much fun and give better loot) and most times lost games are caused by one team having less people than the other one.

How I think it should work:
- every game/win a little reward like 1silver and 1little lucky envelope
- looses should give every second time track to the 10 wins achievement, so you don’t feel like wasting time
- automated teamswap should work the same as in pvp
- 4v5 and 3v5 should get fixed: game doesn’t start with one team having less people than the other team, teamswap should start way sooner and the counter should be shorter (5 sec or so), 20 – 30 sec 3/4v5 make the team with less ppl a guaranteed loose.

Any thoughts?

The things like bosses and lords and stuff are called “secondary mechanic”, it’s not the primary thing you should focus on. This is conquest after all.
That said, there are situations where it is a good idea going for them, securing wins and making clutch plays.
Chieftain and Svanir have low armor and health, they can killed very fast by raw dps. If your own teamcomp relies on 2 dps classes (say thief and mesmer) and has 3 bunkers (cele or whatever) and the enemy team has only bunkers, it can be a good idea to kill the own boss in a few secons at the start because your bunkers can outlast this time the dps guys are missing in the teamfight and the low stealability of the enemy team.
But when the enemy team has also dps classes it’s better to focus on the teamfights and try to get an early advantage through mapcontrol and capture points.
At this point bosses are only for comebacks and for your team after you wiped the enemy team and you are sure the bosses can be killed fast and not be stolen, also you must communicate with your team, there is no point in killing a boss but then loosing a point and 2 teammates and start snowballing. Plays like that can loose you the game.

In short: Watch the map, be aware of what the enemy team can do and what your team can do. It highly depends on team comps and situations and understanding of what everyone is able to do (how fast someone is, how much dps someone has and so on) when and if you go for these kinds of secondary objectives.
Again: this is conquest, so focus on the capture points and go for the other things if you have time and the pressure freedom.

1. It is not said that the druid is a healer specialization
2. If it is, then you would have a point for the game how it is right now but:
There are AI changes incoming with the expansion and this will probably mean that [pulling the mobs into a corner and] killing them fast will not work anymore.
Fights are most likely going to be more interesting and there is a high chance that healing / tanking will play a big role when the expansion hits.

Evan Lesh.3295:

No. But keep in mind celebration and birthday boosters increase reward track progress.

Do they also apply the increase to the 1% potions from dailys?

Sometimes you need the first (team-)fight to develop a good strategy against the enemy team and by the point you have one, you easily can be behind 100 points or more, but then come back fast.

Not saying you don’t have a point, but I don’t think a comebackfeature is needed. Most times waiting for your teammates to spawn and regrouping is enough to get a next chance.
Situations where a comebackfeature would change the outcome of a game would be rare I think.

Since matchmaking gets better and better but just doesn’t come to the right spot, I wondered why.

Then I realized: It’s because of the low playerbase we currently have.

No matchmaking in this world can compensate a low playerbase where not enough players of each skillgroup queue at the same time to get even matches.

So you may wonder how to fix this:
Make PVP free to play and let the rest of the game buy to play

PvP Accounts would have only PvP Characters (for the people who didn’t play GW1: that are characters bound to PvP, so you can’t leave to pve or wvw) and can be upgraded to PvE Accounts at any later time.
This would bring a huge mass into PvP and help to fix the currently low playerbase.

Whats your thought on it, would it help or not?

Pro:
- higher playerbase
- faster queues
- more even matches
- competition
- ESPORTZ?
- people get interested in the game and buy it?

Cons:
- Missing some kind of money gain for ANet
- Probably a lot of trolls
- Developer resources to implement

Human!
Sry but I played too much GW1, all my chars are Human, I hate all other races.
If there would be the possibility, I would go to war with all other races.

I would like Gaily to ask the devs if there may will be the ability to change the race of your character.
If it will NOT come with this expansion please tell me, so I can already delete my character with the “wrong” race (it has 100% world completion that’s why I am waiting for this feature since a year now).
If it will well then I am happy ^^ (for ppl questioning why I have a 100% char with a race I don’t like: It was one of my first characters and now I hate it)

4/10 for this troll

Morfedel.4165:

For those who have the scrolls and tomes, you could make a level 1 and, after the tutorial, level a character to level 80 in a matter of a minute or so of clicking.

After the tutorial?
Deluxe edition → bank access in the tutorial → instant lvl 80 → 1 shot tutorial boss

Ayrilana.1396:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Black_Moa
or were you specifically looking for the baby moa version?

He referred to GW1

for everyone who does not know the original version from a long time ago:

Quote: mighty meak.6387

OK gusie listen
im decent pvp
but my gf left me
coz of lederborsd
i mean W T F
i enter new leaderrbord after reset
and i say i am decent
i adapt
i see no gaurd so i think ok go gaurd
i go imba heal guard
adn i am gona mid
and i heal and i heal and i heal moar
but w t f
i am alone
no one helps no loves
1vall
i die no win
next game i say ho ho ho no guard no gaurd at all i go imba power crit wahtever
but guy at srat say ok gusy lisen plan
1 close 1 animal 1 far rest mid
ok ok i say i am mid coz far is noob
burt map say i am 1 mid rest animal no close no far
and i die hard lol
loost
then enters next
and i say lol i know now i follow plan noooobs
w t f skyham
i change imba engi canon trololol
so caanon here i comes
1 mesmer hiding and pul no prob i push and push broken glass canon all mine
i shoot a shoot b shoot c
w t f
non see abc
they all canon gate coz it causy no push nothing just fight fight fight
chase chase chse
i say go b go a and go c
all say lol noob u here for golds
lossst
gf now half interest
i say ok lissen good i win next i go up 90%
but i dont
all ranks 10 for goold
next is same and next
70% and down
ranks down too
i go guard i am mad no guard love
i go engi bunker power right no nothing
i do ele i go war ooops w t f war nerfes
69% and down
gf dont impresss say she leaving now
all is vain

Dwaynas Avatar.1562:

PvE:
- new Maps (around 8 ) Check
- Raids (most likely included as a type of Guild Missions) Maybe hinted at (“Group content”)
- Story gets continued in some way Check
- Last 500 crafting implemented Not Confirmed
- new legendarys craftable through other ways than hardcore farming and rng Check
- Housing / Guild halls update / implementation Check
- More account unlocks Check
- around 70% hardcore features 30% casual features I would say

WvW:
- gameplay changed slightly in some way either through ppk or some other improvement to how the siege/def mechanic works, helping smaller groups
Check

PvP:
- ladders / seasons Not mentioned
- current web page for leader board gets implemented in game Check
- new gamemode Check
- more pvp exclusive things (more armor, weapons, titles,…) Not mentioned
- MAKING PVP ESPORTZ :)

General:
- new Class (probably 3rd heavy) CHECK
- UI updates for many things (lfg, guild, pvp) Not Mentioned

9 Points

PvE:
- new Maps (around 8 )
- Raids (most likely included as a type of Guild Missions)
- Story gets continued in some way
- Last 500 crafting implemented
- new legendarys craftable through other ways than hardcore farming and rng
- Housing / Guild halls update / implementation
- More account unlocks
- around 70% hardcore features 30% casual features I would say

WvW:
- gameplay changed slightly in some way either through ppk or some other improvement to how the siege/def mechanic works, helping smaller groups
-

PvP:
- ladders / seasons
- current web page for leader board gets implemented in game
- new gamemode
- more pvp exclusive things (more armor, weapons, titles,…)
- MAKING PVP ESPORTZ

General:
- new Class (probably 3rd heavy)
- UI updates for many things (lfg, guild, pvp)

Invictus.1503:

Though specifically it looks like inspiration for Taimi to me.

^^ ye i was thinking the exact same

Also professions are less work for the guys designing the armor (this seems to be
a time consuming work since we don’t get new armor that often).
It requires 5 races * 2 genders = 10
A race would require: 8 professions * 2 genders = 16

And it would have a much larger impact on the way you play Pve, PvP, WvW than a race which would only add to the story and cosmetic.

I think a profession would add more to the game than a race.

Recently looked up old concept art for the canceled GW1 Utopia Campaign after playing the living story.

Does anyone see what I mean?

Anet please hire this guy

The might nerf was designed mainly for pvp not for pve

when?
this will be awesome

Cynz.9437:

I found it rather comical that botters and farmers were rewarded after all (dem under 50% winrates lol)~

Bravo~

And the only pvp rewards that where exclusive to top players got handed out to them, destroying the only thing (even if it was not that good) that was prestigious.

+1
and it should be hard – I mean really hard
if all jumping puzzles until now are on a scale from 1-5 (they are stupidly easy)
this one should be a 50 or higher
and unforgiving like SAB tribulation

Joshua Foreman IM CALLING YOU OUT FOR THIS ONE
PLEASE you have the right to HURT US!

+1
This idea should give both sides a better feeling.

Elitists would not be able to get trolled and non elitist people wouldn’t get kicked from this kind of groups anymore because of bad gear (you can SEE if someone doesn’t use zerker gear or stuff with a little of experience) because they can’t join (and see) them.

If you have bad gear and you join a group that wants only people with good gear, then you give them a worse experience on purpose – if you have bad gear the run will not be that fast as a matter of fact.

Justin ODell.9517:

Morwath.9817:

For me its a bit longer: You DC, you restart entire client (because it won’t you reconnect), you authorize login, you login, you start loading back, takes sometimes a bit more than just 30 seconds.

It’s certainly possible that some number of people wouldn’t be able to make some limit, but you also have to balance it against the impact it has on your team’s chances of succeeding.

The longer the grace period, the more potential damage to the teams odds of winning.

There is a specific kind of dc that only puts you back to loginscreen and you can instantly join in again, it happens a lot to me – could you somehow differ between this kind of dc and some other form of disconnecting and make the game instantly reconnect by itself and then give no penalty?
This would at least fix a lot of issues I and people I know have, maybe this one is easy to implement until you have a fix/idea/… for total dc’s which cause you to restart your client/pc/router/whatever…

The thing with assassin amulet is that you trade the health from berserker for the additional dmg. The meta that we currently have with the bunker, bruiser, cough* crapp cough* sustain over time hybrid dmg just is the total counter to this amulet.
Wait until we have a full zerker dps meta, maybe it will play out then.
But as we know the patch scedual you can wait half a year or longer for this to happen

When you push far:
- your team has enough sustain for the midfight (bunker guard, bunker ele, whatever)
- the guy at close has also enough survivability to last long enough for reinforcement
- you are capable of winning 1v1s, or not dying 1v1,2,3 → if you get low you disengage

When you don’t push far:
- your team is full glass, they will get destroyed in mid and on close, so it is useless to push or even win far, because you will get snowballed
- all other cases that aren’t included in the ones i mentioned so far

I knew I remembered correclty:

Justin ODell.9517:

The back-end servers have been updated in preparation for tomorrow’s build. This means we get all the matchmaking fixes early!

I’ll update the wiki page with the details shortly, but the tl;dr of it is this.

We are now targeting a 2 minute queue time average, with an 8 minute maximum. Queue times will vary around those numbers based on population, but please let me know if you are stuck in the queue for longer than 8 minutes.

Please let me know if you notice any changes in quality (good or bad).

2 min average, 8 min max.
But I don’t think the population is so low at this time, because I got fast matches before and after that queue.

at that time? I think there where a lot of ppl queueing, at least in EU, 3 pm shouldn’t be that bad time to queue xD. But maybe you are right, let’s see what justin thinks of it when he is back from free days