Guild Wars 2

Hi all, there is a few of us in a guild that are shopping around and we’re hoping some of you can give us some knowledge of what to expect from the different servers.

We are looking to move to something in the top 5, full server status is problematic, if BG, DB, and JQ don’t open up soon I guess they won’t be an option.

Servers we are looking at (as stated we understand some are full currently and may remain that way).

JQ
DB
TC
FA
BG

in no particular order.

We have our reasons for wanting to move so please don’t come in here trying to explain why we should move down to T4.

Thanks guys/gals.

Hi folks, as the title says, I’ve never really played thief but am interested in finding a decent WvW scouts build. What I’m looking to achieve is fast movement (to be able to scout WvW maps) and of course I want to be able to defend myself should I have to, I’m not a fan of Condi builds and would prefer power. I know that’s not a whole lot to go on but seeing as how I have very little thief knowledge it’s the best I can come up with for you all.

Thank you!

Ajax.4970:

The ridiculous gating of the Elite Spec behind an enormous amount of grind has really just soured this whole launch for me after a few hours of play.

Sorry but you got it very wrong this time ANet. People want to play the new content with the new specs not have to play the new content just to get the new specs. As a mostly WvW player I’ll just be going back to my normal build now until I can unlock the Elite spec, whenever that might be, its just so very disappointing.

It does seem to be overshadowing the excitement that should be HoT release. All those people that don’t use the forums often just got hit in the face with this, many of which seem to be none to happy.

That does seem to be the Hot (no pun intended) topic over the last few days. With all the ingame post I’ve seen in relation it’s fairly accurate to say the ones that agree with the grind are the minority.

The hype train is busy making it stops around the world collecting HP’s. We should see it in the next few weeks.

PyrateSilly.4710:

You can get HP’s from playing WvW by the way ….. Just playing the part you like nets you HP’s from the PvE part of the game ……

This is true, it’s an unrealistic grind but ya I suppose ii’s possible in to do within a couple of weeks.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Aidenwolf.5964:

Honestly I feel like this is BWE4. There’s no way if they tested this system in betas it wouldn’t have made it to the live game.

I have 8 level 80 characters (welcome my latest revenant) and I tried Druid on my 100% mapped ranger and only was able to unlock half of the spec, making it unplayable. Now I hate the design of the Druid, I think Anet screwed that one up. Since it’s such a chore to unlock it, I won’t bother with the spec.

Does this make sense to anyone? Show us something, let us try it, then release the game with us expecting to be adventuring on our new toys and then tell us we need to complete the content on our old specs to unlock the new one?

How it is unplayable, exactly? You get the heal, and I assume at least one of the skills, plus the staff. You get the specral mode just by fitting the trait line, what else do you need to be able to play it? Not to be able to play it fully, but to be able to play it at all?

Pretty sure it’s playable, you just want the whole thing.

You want to know what isn’t playable until it’s done? Herald, because at least for all the other classes you can fit other skills in until you can get the ones you want. Herald can’t do that at all, so until it’s complete the Glint line is only partially functional.

Many people tried pointing this out, you were to busy being ignorant to them to notice it seems.

This is just flat out annoying and pointless.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Dynasty.5127:

I still personally would very much like to see the number dropped down a bit from 400.

It IS dropped down a bit from 400, actually. Don’t forget that the last HP unlocks are spent on skins and runes.

I am aware of this fact, if you would like all the skins and stuff it is still 400. It’s a personal opinion, you don’t have to agree with it.

Togo.7094:

by all means lower it to 200. that means 11 fully unlocked elite spec characters for me as soon as I can log in.

You see I don’t get why people would be upset by this, I think that is great if you were able to unlock them all right off the bat because you did the work prior. I guess what I mean is it doesn’t affect me in anyway so more power to you.

Laosduude.1690:

Do people even play games to build up their characters anymore? Guess not, lets get everything on a silver platter.

Why be so hostile ? The way he enjoys to play and his opinion are just as valid as yours, there is really no need to get upset.

For me, I think it should be reduced to 200, I don’t mind putting in some effort but I would like to try the Elite out as soon as possible because that was one of my main reasons for the purchase.

Omega Zoa.3859:

Dynasty.5127:

Omega Zoa.3859:

Honestly as a community we have become really lazy..we are used for like…3 years of having everything unlocked and with this introduction of new progress “scares” alot of people..i mean work to reunlocked everything? What a heretical notion! what will people ask next? Reduce masteries xp required by 95%?

I wouldn’t say lazy, one of the GW2 selling points was that it was very casual friendly with little to no grinds. So I would say it’s more like we have expectations for the game to have less time investment, not lazy. For other games you know what you are getting yourself into, Korean games are typically very much a non stop grind, you know what to expect with games like WoW and you play it accordingly. GW2 is no different, we expect it to be more casual friendly because that was how it was sold.

That’s my opinion at least.

My friend…that is the problem..many people forgot the true meaning of grind..try cutting trees nonstop for 2 months..that is grind..this? Each HP is located in a different area and has some tweak to it..also does not require spending weeks at a time to POSSIBLY get it as a drop..as for casually..that is core gw2..as main selling point of hot is the promise of as challange. That’s my two cents..gana leave this threat now..I feel people want to kill me for stating my opinions.

I can agree with that, I’d say a better way to describe it would be to say it’s a grind in GW2 terms because you are right, compared to some other games out there, this is not even scratching the surface of a grind.

I still personally would very much like to see the number dropped down a bit from 400.

Omega Zoa.3859:

Honestly as a community we have become really lazy..we are used for like…3 years of having everything unlocked and with this introduction of new progress “scares” alot of people..i mean work to reunlocked everything? What a heretical notion! what will people ask next? Reduce masteries xp required by 95%?

I wouldn’t say lazy, one of the GW2 selling points was that it was very casual friendly with little to no grinds. So I would say it’s more like we have expectations for the game to have less time investment, not lazy. For other games you know what you are getting yourself into, Korean games are typically very much a non stop grind, you know what to expect with games like WoW and you play it accordingly. GW2 is no different, we expect it to be more casual friendly because that was how it was sold.

That’s my opinion at least.

I hadn’t really thought about it, I want to try and unlock my elite asap but I would also like to partake in the Halloween Event.

Vermagus.7804:

Dynasty.5127:

Have you submitted a ticket giving a detailed description of the issue ?Maybe they are not aware of it.

lol this made me laugh, people have been posting about this for two years now and sending support messages and nothing is being done, not even a response. The Mac clients has been in beta since launch, c`mon that’s not even right.

I don’t have a Mac so I was not aware of the circumstances around the issue, I’m glad you found my trying to be helpful entertaining.

12:01 am PST

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Sizer.3987:

Not sure why everyone is so kittened at elite specs actually requiring stuff to unlock. Its not like when you bought the base game you got a free level 80 with all your traits unlocked and could do lvl 80 content the first hour. Yet suddenly people feel like they should be able to unlock everything in HOT in the first day? Odd.

Anyway, I second the OP, even though no one takes the forum trolls very seriously (though they are entertaining) someone has got to post something positive every once in a while.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Maybe they will give us a 100% boost for WvW that stacks with other boosters for a set number of days. I don’t know if it will happen but that would be a great help and probably ease some of the anger.

Oh ok well good luck o you, I hope you get it sorted out.

Have you submitted a ticket giving a detailed description of the issue ?Maybe they are not aware of it.

12:01 am PST, 3:01 am EST

Thank you for everything you have done, I don’t agree with all of your decisions but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the hard work and many hours you put in to bring us this expansion.

I don’t understand why it matters to some people. Why are some posters just blatantly attacking other posters opinions ? Isn’t the forum for creating and giving feedback which is always somebodies opinion ? This is why I hardly ever post, it’s embarrassing to see players attacking the ideas and opinions of others, why can’t people just accept that they won’t always agree but that does not invalidate someone else’s opinion.

The way I see it it should be easier and if you want to take your time to unlock it slowly you have that option, it shouldn’t matter to you if others can do it faster.

ArchonWing.9480:

One thing I don’t appreciate is some of the posters being accused of not wanting to “work” and “play the game”, especially when it’s defining “the game” as pve.

The game isn’t just about pve. Hey, let’s make it so that to unlock it, you have to do PvP, WvW, and PvE on every single character. What? You wanted stuff handed to you? Afraid of the challenge?

How many people were complaining about having to do WvW for map completion? And hell, I agreed with not forcing PvE’rs to WvW, because you know I had some degree of respect for their playstyle; unlike a lot of posts in this thread or forum that can’t even seem to think of anyone approaching the game differently. I mean, just look at how many random things people consider to be “exploits”. “Stacking in a dungeon is an exploit, because that’s not how I do it!” “Maize Balm farming is an exploit, remove it!”; hell I despise the later concept, but I don’t care enough to comment on it that much.

I certainly didn’t appreciate pve elitists condescending to them, especially when the difference was often the ability to follow a tag and blob down some enemy keep or pay gems to transfer to a stacked server. Sorry, I’m sure I’m not the only WvW’er that rolls their eyes when people tell their cute stories of getting to that Vista in Overlook being such a difficult odyssey. Give me a break. And hey, Anet saw the light there. And they thought of a WvW alternative too, so I’ll definitely credit them with that.

But it’s clear some elitists that think that grinding away in their form of progression is the only way worth playing in the game, and everyone else is entitled and spoiled when arguing that anyone who regularly plays WvW to be entitled to any degree is a horrific joke. Oh, and by the way, hopefully some of you discontent folks will raise a glass for this, but this aint just update content— we paid for this so it isn’t a charity case either.

And as I’ve said before, attacking someone personally, because they don’t want conform to your kitten gamer code is not really relevant to the discussion. I mean please, it’s not a high horse one is riding; we don’t have mounts in this game.

Well Said. I am very disappointed in the decision to charge 400 hero points even if that gets me all the cosmetic fluff it is still to much.

I’m just going to leave this here, I lead a small to medium (25 top out) guild, I don’t play forum wars but I do read them, when this was brought to my attention I decided to come give my 2 cents.

I have not pre-purchased but was planning on purchasing come Friday, you can forget that sale. My guild has voted that if this goes through we are done, one or two may stay behind but the majority vote was you have bent players over long enough. Wild star just went F2P and already have a better customer service rep then Arena Net.

Once again I may not participate in the forums as much as I should, but as the minority that doesn’t speak out I can honestly say you are out of touch with your game and community. I wish you the best of luck in the future.

signed … at least 19 players gone and 17 sales.

This is bad.
It looks really bad, intentional or not, this blows my mind.