Guild Wars 2

Crafting. Kitten that. Ill wait until i can get weapons in another way that doesn’t force me to craft.

There are many people who don’t like crafting. Requiring it to progress is a clear step backwards from the decision to put ascended rings and accessories on the laurel vendor.

Too much math.

It is simple. The always said they want a living world. Get people out doing things.

No more champ loot boxes.

Make all champions that spawn solo without and event. Have an event. (gasp)

Make all Events, have a loot box upon event completion. Base the quality on event level and medal.

People wanna farm champs. farm champs. People wanna farm events. Farm events.

To top things off, daily call to arms in certain zones, to have double rewards. Ensuring no one zone is always to go to farm.

The removal of pve culling is great. But, I don’t like having friendly nameplates. Ever. It is annoying for everything I look at in the distance to be covered in name plates that I have hidden. You made a gorgeous game. Don’t let anti culling hide it under nameplates.

Please allow the hidden nameplates feature to affect the nameplates that would show for pve culling. If i want to see them i can press alt.

0/0/20/30/20 Guardian, zerker gear, using greatsword phase 1 and scepter phase 2

Greatsword to faster pull mobs and trun them into the light thingies.

Scepter kiting around room in a circle.

The complaints are unfounded. It is doable by ANY class with a ranged weapon and a melee weapon. Best fight to be introduced since release with the exception of the blind mechanic requiring you to edit video settings.

After several hours of work I killed her. Frankly, best fight in the game. It requires skill with positioning, and a ranged weapon. Nothing about it is class specific and there is little to no room for error. Pure win in terms of design. Hard but doable yet not based on cheap tactics. with the exception of the blind. really anet, you are better then that.

If you haven’t gotten it. Keep working on it and get off the forums.

the reward rate is fine. it is intended to take a while. please do not fall victim to the “want it now” syndrome.

While I see most votes going to evon for what is clearly the best of the fractal options. I worry that the best fractal option was added to a guy who support black lion RNG. Vote for fractal just to hear later, but you guys love black lion chests. you voted for them.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Kryta will get their day.

That is all.

And this day will obviously be temporary content.

You are not forced to do a thing. There is a reward for doing the dailies, that does not mean you are forced, That simply means that you do not want to put in the work for the rewards. boohoo. If you don’t want to do the daily. Don’t. But accept that you aren’t going to be given something for nothing.

OK. Let us be clear. 13% is not meaningless. Stop using skill as an excuse to make up for that 13%. They are separate things.

A skilled player in exotics may beat an unskilled playing in ascended. But when pitting 2 skilled players against one another, that 13% does make a difference. A huge one.

have you seen people requiring ascended for explorables? of course not, because the content isn’t hard enough to justify requiring anything more then being of lvl.

i would hope it is easy for large groups when you cant move and just stand there assuming you are auto-attacking as no numbers show up.

my ele ive been working on is now 23, I was in that same boat not too long ago.

1. door exploration of all 6 cities. ill gain you a fwe lvls.

2. outfit yourself at lvl 10 and lvl 15 with blues. at 15 you can get green daggers too.

3. learn your kill combos. ride the lightning into a pack, arcane shiel and earth 5, done.

4. speaking of arcane shield. awesome for earth 5, also, arcane blast? the aoe one, great for lvling so far.

5. Cannot stress enough to outfit yourself often from ah. You will likely be every 5-10 lvls re-equiping entire green sets. At least that is my plan

Am I the only one who sees these little guilds as a problem? Seriously, just because the game allows everyone and thier mother to have a guild, it does not mean that is the intent.

In truth, what needs to be fixed is the guild system, allow multiple guild chats while representing only one aka your large guild. Small guilds are encouraged for friendship. Not massive content. If you are gonna cry, cry about something that actually needs fixing, not that big brother got more ice cream than you.

Grats op guild on new content.

I don’t have a legendary, I likely never will, but changing legendarys, uncool anet. You sold a car and took off the wheels. Shame.

I was surprised with a free reset. It was not my fault or intentional that I got an extra laurel today.

I have done my dailies twice since the patch released. Once between 5-7 est, and once after. Btw ty for extra laurel devs.

Your thread is invalid.

As Jon is now tracking this thread and speaking with the playerbase, should the title be changed to be a bit less hostile and promote more conversing on the subject? Just a thought

I find it amazing that people are arguing against this fix. At the end of the day, this is primarily to help groups with a lot of conditions or large world events. Class balance is not a question here so it makes no sense to have this much opposition.

It is not about being a one trick pony, these are not players that are stacking nothing but dps, these are based on weapon combinations. Condition damage has nothing to do with the number of stacks you apply

There are a few options to fix this

they need to either make the bleeds/burns/poisons stack for the person. *boring

They could add condition specific fixes. for example, when eceeding 25 stacks of bleed, instantly hemorrhage the oldest stack for its remaining damage as it is pushed off the list.

This thread should be packed with ideas by now, not mindless banter with no real solutions. And no people, not using condition damage is not a solution.

The problem with a future lfg tool is that any new toll will be useless unless it is able to perform BETTER than gw2lfg.com. In all honesty, Nothing really will and they would be best suited to purchase and implement gw2lfg.com into the ui and not change a thing about it.

Also, for those who aren’t grouping bc of Warrior Mesmer speed runs in cof, you do realize that is ONLY 2 paths of one dungeon. Even as a warrior I try to join normal groups. Don’t let speed runners discourage you.

that sounds like something for a group of euro players to do. would definately love for guesting to allow us a player imposed underflow system though. full zones all the way to 80

To be clear, there is no “need” to min max. That is not on Anet. There is only the compulsion to min/max which is based on human nature. In a game with no trinity, your definition of a need to min max would have every player in the game playing the same class and build.

Does some balance need to be addressed, yes. But the idea of being forced into one build where the content is not all that difficult is wrong. It is designed ina way where you CAN min max but never would you have to do so.

and unofficially decided on a leveling server. Much like the way tarnished coast is the unofficial rp server? I figure with guesting it is only a matter of time for this to work itself out. Been looking to lvl an alt soon among some densely populated zones.

I only have oen very important question about this.

What will be the unofficial leveling server of the community that is used so that we can have full zones throughout the world?

Personally, I wouldn’t go with either. Strategy guides are great for other types of games, but for an mmo that is constantly being updated , they are worthless.

If you are a collector and simply have to choose one, choose your favorite looking one.

But as far as content, nothing will be as complete, or as fast, as typing, /wiki phrase in game. YouTube is the bane of official game guides.

The lfg hate bandwagon is simply laughable. Yes, lfg has had its problems in other games. But does anyone stop to wonder why?

The most common compliant you see thrown around is community. It kills community because people don’t talk. That is bull. It kill community because ninjas are allowed to run rampant. This would not be an issue with gw2.

As there is no possible way to ninja, the primary argument against lfg tools has very little weight other than a group on bandwagon players who don’t want it simply due to its negative relation to other games. Don’t be a sheep. Stop and think critically about what a tool like this can do for a game that has a anti ninja loot system. Heck, measures could even be taken to group people with thier own server more often than grouping them with others. Community can not only survive, but can thrive on a lfg tool in a game like GW2.

The entire Idea of upscaling is a failure. You are not able to find groups because of this. It is not personal

Lets assume for a second your at least lvl 30 and have an elite skill. Ok What are you lacking.
1. Gear: Your gear stats will be far lower than an 80
2. Trait skills: You have 20 points. You don’t even have half a build
3. Trait stats: as with the above, You are missing out on 50 points worth of stats. That comes out to at least a loss of 500 primary stat points.
4. Skill points: Not only are you less than half a build, chances are you don’t have the important skills that could be needed for yourself and you group.

Now, think about that sort of handicap. How can you consider yourself not carried. About the only thing you can do as well as a 80 mathematically, is resurrect. Your health, defense, damage, utility is all severely lacking and because of that, it’s not personal, but you should be locked to scale 1 and it should be jokingly easy. It is not elitism. You are not less of a player for not being max level but you are less of an asset to a group. Blame Anet for not putting in a lvl 0.

As far as requiring exotics. I don’t support it. Exotic to rare is not a huge jump. I am all for requiring rares as they are dirt cheap. But exotics is just being snobbish.

ps: anet please create a debuff in all dungeons disabling magic find. Selfish builds are a bane of the dungeon community.

I’m not exactly sure why this would be a problem in gw2. Not screaming lfg in chat is not what hurt community in other games. It was being able to be a ninja without consequence. And in gw2 you can’t ninja. At all. End of story. There is no reason not to implement something to form groups better then putting an icon on your head.

“The dungeon will remember your progress, and will poll the party’s levels when you enter, scaling the dungeon to the highest common attained level”

It needs a selector to let the leader select levels lower than this as well. Eventually characters will become gated at higher levels.

If I am running with a steady group of friends and we are all stuck on fractal 6, and we want to do 5 because we can actually complete it at our level of agony resist, we cant. That is a problem with this gating issue. If I am far off let me know though, I’ve only done one run so far and love it. But this definitely looks like it would be a problem down the road.

Basic Economy. Phlinx, pent/shelter farming was the only jobs left in tyria and we all just got laid off. So now only tp tycoons will be able to make money. Its not an instant gratification issue. Its an eventual gratification issue.

world completion gets you account bound gifts. you dont need world complete on a toon to get a legendary

So tell me if im wrong.

Theya re not making a treadmill. Ascended is simply to bring the gap between the exotic tier and the legendary tier.

So you are saying you are adding ANOTHER tier after ascended called legendary?!?!?!

Honestly, I can understand ascended armor and the agony mechanic. What I cant understand, is making them have higher stats then exotics. They are on the right track with infusions and minimizing a dungeon only mechanic but they are way off base by affecting the rest of the game with it.

IF ascended only meant agony reduction
1. Other dungeons and thier armor would still be relevant in both reward and difficulty.
2. Wv3 would be unaffected (even though it still has its own problems with gear scaling)
3. They would give themselves a way to ramp up an endgame like some players want by using mechanics such as agony gating or even other unseen types.

Honestly if this ships with this ammount of negativity towards it. Ill be amazed.

Not another dime. You lied to your fans. NO treadmill. Infusions are fine from a dungeon only stat perspective. Increased normal stats are not. You lied and in the process have lost the confidence of many loyal customers.

souldonkey.9534:

Arenanet didn’t say that. A game news site did. Arenanet said that Ascended Items are “ancient and powerful artifacts” which is vague as kitten.

You say this as if the only information the 3rd party site have is from the website. If the articles were inaccurate translations of what is to be expected then… wait for it…. ANET WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN POSTED THE LINKS.

By promoting the articles, they in fact put their seal of approval on its content.

Jemmi.6058:

Also, to the community, I believe most of you should wait to see what happens before expressing your rage/intent to quit and/or other negative hyperbole.

The problem with this logic is that if players “wait and see” it will be too late because once players have their hands on and invest in the new armor set, the backlash would be that much worse if it was nerfed to the level it SHOULD be. This thread, while it may contain a lot of unnecessary i quit posts, it simply the community voicing loudly their opinions about a press release that was quite clear in its wording. The following is quoted from that press release. Clearly, people who bought into this game for its “No Gear Treadmill” mantra are going to be upset. We feel lied to. False advertisement is a problem and while people may have had a blast up until now, many will refuse to hop on the treadmill. Such is my American right. No more treadmills.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/11/12/guild-wars-2s-lost-shores-content-primer/

“The patch will introduce ascended items. Ascended armors are “slightly more powerful than exotics” and can, in some cases, hold slots for infusions. Infusions will allow you to increase your character’s power."

Nathanael.4398:

My real opinion is, that the stats are not better in damage/healing/whatever but have the ability to penetrate through the karkas armor.

The problem with that is that first we will need Karka gear, then we may need desert heat resist gear, then we might need no magnetic gear. Opening the door for needing specific gear sets for specific fights/locations is a terrible idea. It makes sense to need a support, a tanky, a dps, ect type gear set. But then to need those 3 but with Kraka Pen is as bad as a gear treadmill. Its and equivalent to old school fire or nature resist sets… cough cough.

IM not one to hop the drama bandwagon, but this game was advertised for no gear grind, only cosmetic grind. This slippery slope is a giant mistake

2h axe, crossbows, whip, pike, fist weapons, glaives, Chakram (xena lol), Even breaking up swords into different types. So many choices.

new Profession. Meh. As long as i get new weapon types ill be happy.

It takes about 700k Karma for the thirsty achievement buying beer from monks in queensdale. Also a finger made of steel.

Blackwolfe.5649:

Im not talking about the quality. Im talking about the fact that its about as harmless as nvidia inspector when it comes to how it affects the game. This as an argument for the “Yes, use it, you wont get banned” against “No, you’ll get banned”.

Pretty much this. As was already stated, their stance on third party is they do not, and will not support it. However, Third party programs that change game files or give the player an advantage are clearly against ToS.

That being said, Black is right. He meant no offense and there is no reason to get defensive of sweetfx vs nvidia as that is not the point. Childish reactions are not needed.

So lets be clear. The entire point of this is that you want to bypass challenges that are intentional.

It is working as intended for you to be slowed down in combat. Jumping puzzles are meant to be a challenge and every single one of them is doable even with the mobs in place. There is no reason to increase run speed in combat. Heck, I would be afraid to see how pvp would go if melee could close the distance that much faster on a ranged. Other negatives could include making ground target abilities extremely weak as you can run out even faster. Or perhaps that invisible army we keep hearing about will blast through a group even faster. Changing run speed DOES have negatives that far surpass a few players inability to complete jumping puzzles that have been completed by hundreds of thousands of people just fine. This is not a bug. This is a challenge. A challenge intended to… challenge you. I am officially bored with this topic and shall move on. Good day to you.

Because the slow speed is our base. Its a matter of perspective. To me, the glass is half full because out of combat we are given a run speed bonus. Meanwhile, other ungratefuls, have half empty glasses thinking they are being punished in combat.

The ONLY problem is perspective. In a large scale action based game, speed has to be limited to prevent graphical issues and limit the effectiveness of circle strafing a older video card. They know this, however, they also know we need a faster run speed outside of combat to give the exploration a better pace. The pace of combat speed they HAD to do. The buff out of combat, not so much.

Bruno: trying killing things. Ive heard it gets you out of combat. They are there for a reason. To challenge you by using this mechanic. You are meant to kill them, not to exploit the logout button.

This is why we cant have good things. You do not have decreased movement speed during combat. You have increased movement speed out of combat. You had a good thing and of course, managed to find a way to complain. Thank Anet for their foresight of our need to move faster out of combat and move on.

As someone who has bought all 8, I find it extremely difficult to work with their current ui. Scrolling is a pain that collapsing is really the easiest way. However, it would be nice if we could add a label to the tabs to allow us to organize easier.

Hate to be THAT guy. But don’t you all have ANY friends or guild mates. Seriously, The listing fee is there to protect the market from insane activities. Either farm the couple gold or borrow it. No one on the forums is gonna help you though.

Lookit. The Wiki is not an outside site. It is Anets. They run it as in it is official. Players add content. Anet adds too. No game company has gone so far to provide information to their players. The timer on the UI i can get behind. But seriously, There is far too much information to put into the game. The wiki is the single greatest instruction manual there has ever been. Suck it BradyGames and your crap guides.

The point is, your October started at the same time as everyone else. It ended at the same time as everyone else. There is direct information on the wiki saying when these reset.
Anet has one issue, consistency. They choose different time zones for different things. But to call out that it ended EARLY and player posts about it as there being a problem is completely off. It ended precisely when they said it would in the wiki. They give the information. They are not responsible for teaching you to read it too. And to those who say you shouldn’t have to tab out for information, welcome to the world of MMOs. You have internet, use it. It is not like you a e googling, you are using an official ANET run wiki.

ANet does NOT ban people because someone reported botting. They investigate people for it. At no point will you even know the investigation happened. They will simply look at your activity, see that you are inf act a persona and not a bot due to your actions, and move on. Do not worry, you will not be blasted falsely just bc someone stereotypes you.

Swan, because the population is fluid. Since you CAN move, it would be predictable where you can go to try and try to double up. ANET is not inconveniencing anyone. Guess what, your October ended a few hours early. Boohoo it is not like your November didn’t start. EVERY PLAYER regardless of race, religion, gender, or timezone is given the exact, and I mean EXACT, same amount of time to complete the monthly.

So let me ask, why are there no Euro players on here whining that the US got to start November early?