Guild Wars 2

I have also been using Sennheiser Headsets for the past 10 years, they have quality sound and a very good microphone. Those you talk to will thank you for not zirping, whooshing or other annoying sounds cheap microphones make.

Got a Game 360 currently and love it.

So far I think Rev is one of the most mobile classes ever, you get so many abilities that help move/dodge and alot of superspeed/perma swiftness.

I do agree on the condi part, the only really good condi removal is in Dwarfs heal and that is on a cd where it wont help much with condi removal.

But still if you do not run around alone all the time its a really good class for WvW, especially since you can give your whole team basically perma prot

So far I am in total Love with the Revenant. I have unlocket full Herald on it so I get to play with the Dragon Aspect.

If you want to go for pure insane damage you can go Shiro/Dwarf which gives you alot of flexibility and even with low durability, it doesnt matter since you have a huge amount of dodges. (1 Dodge on Sword 3, one on shiro) Another dodge on Hammer 3.

My rotation for that is to usually go with Sword/Axe or Sword/Shield and then Have the attack speed buff from Shiro on and dish it out. Then when my Mist energy runs out I switch to Dwarf and activate the hammers. Really good damage and you get dodges, stability, 50% damage reduction for a few seconds and a 2 second disable (that jade thing).

Very very versatile.

And then there is the nice healing from Ventari which you can couple with Mallyx for Healing and ok damage trough conditions.

And of course then there is the Dragon Aspect… oh my.
You can either have permanent Might (around 14 stacks) and Fury. Or Perma swiftness or regen, or perma Protection. Or have them all active for a short while for mega team buffs. (You also pretty much get an ability which enhances Buff duration on your whole team by 50% ^^)

I have had a good time both in pve/pvp and wvw with the Revenant.

The only small downside is bad condi cleanse if you do not run Dwarf (you can trait remove 1 condi on Legend switch but thats way too low for pvp) Or go dwarf where the heal has condi cleanse.

Most of this expansion is awesome.

However the way to get the new Specialisations is simply AWEFULL!

I hate it so much that every time I try to get some new points for my Revenant I log of after 10 minutes of failed attempts to get some new hero points in the HOT maps.

Then I think that I would like to have all my 9 Character Classes with their Elite spec… it saps all the fun out of playing the game. Knowing that I will have to grind for hours and hours and hours on just the same spots to get them.

If I could complete 3 fractals for 10 skill points. Do 1-2 hours of WvW for 10 skill points or do 1-2 hours of pvp for 10 skill points. Sure it would still take quite a while to unlock. But at least I could have FUN doing it.

The current system is simply NOT fun! There is no fun in doing the same hero challenges over and over and over again and no real other choice (ok there is mindless wvw grinding but thats so slow and I personally do not like wvw at all so meh only choice is to grind hero challenges)

Where the Mastery System is how a good new mechanic should be implemented (account bound). The Elite Spec aquiring mechanic is the polar opposite, it hurts more with every extra character.

Hey, the fractal change is actually awesome. I was able to get the 1 skin I have been looking for 2 years without actually getting it. Just paid 20 pristine relics to get my 1h sword skin.

NOW I NEVER EVER NEED TO RETURN!

Thanks A-Net for granting me finally absolution from Fractals to never have to run them ever again.

Oh well I dont care about the rewards anymore, before you would actually make 2-5 gold per run on them depending on drops (you even got 1 gold per daily chest) and a quit high chance of getting a Ascended Armor drop on level 50.

Now I got 10 silver from the end chest and 2 green items. So around 40 silver in total from everything from that run….

Add that to the insult that Ascended Gear is now even more expensive to make (The insignia now not only needs 3 damask but also 3 elonan leather…. why they did this i cannot fathom at all. It was too expensive before and they increased the cost? WTF?!)

But I guess A-Net did not want us to run abandoned content, they might have to do something new for that then.

I just beat level 50 and went back in and still do not see any vendor selling the Fractal Weapon skins. Do you need the Fractal Mastery unlocked before it works?

Apparently they have not added that which is very very disappointing. After 2 years of nearly constant fractal runs I have yet to ever see the 1 skin I want

sigh not another stupid weekly “chest” system just like in fractals where I have not gotten the one skin I actually wanted after 2 years of fractals….

Also I really hope A-net does not forget to add agony resistance slots to legendary armor/weapons

Huge nerf incoming!

Seriously, so far its the most fun of the elite specs I have tried out of all the classes, most of the others feel lackluster and dont synergize too well with the the way I personally like to play.

But my god the thieve is awesome. Not only does it have insane mobility, but that Dodge madness ^^.

Also blind, dodge, blind dodge… I feel really really sad for all other classes

So far from all the elite specs I have tried the Thievs was the best one so far. It synergizes well with other weapon and trait lines of the Thieve. The stuff itself is a fun weapon and might be a nice combo with PP/Staff. I need to test more but so far I might switch to using a Thieve mainly instead of my Mage.

Then again the mage spec is completly disappointing so far.

The same I have been doing for the past 4 or is it now 5 months without any meaningful content… log in, open my daily chest, log out again.

Finally a 1h sword that is not clunky and looks lean and clean

Will I have to level a completly new char in order to go to the HOT areas and tinker with the elite specs?

I am fine with 20, i did thousands of fractal runs and never was on the lucky side of the rng, always staffs in tons, some greatswords and lots and lots of underwater weapons. Never the skins I liked.

Why should I have to grind thousands of dailies again just to get those skins I want? (Unfortunately i switched most of my pristine relics into normal ones at some point)

2 years 20 skins… no sword around 2k+ level 50 fractals.

Its possible you will never get the sword like me or you get it on your first run, screw stupid rng

As a player that is in Fractals quite often and has not gotten the 1h Sword skin with over 2k runs in fractals I really, really want option 2.5

It is a complete letdown, that I know it might be impossible for me to ever attain that 1h Fractal sword skin I want because of the stupid rng in this game. I get like 1 skin every 20-30 fractals ran and out of that it has a chance of 1/12 to get the actual right skin but in essence I have some swords, staffs and other crap but not those I want.

So please can we get more token systems in the game instead of this stupid rng.

I like Frostgorge the most, its beautiful has a nice Zone layout and I simply love icy mountains.

Least liked is Dredgehaunt Cliffs (because I HATE Dredge – yes I am permanently damaged by the Dredge fractal for all my live.

A descent chance is when you have 100% crit chance after applying 20% from fury and crit food.

Its A-Nets fault that they made fractals even more annoying than before. We asked for shorter time, shorter Dredge in particular. A way to optain skins we never got without the need of hideous RNG. What did we get?

A fractal weapon skin ticket, that is still RNG (no clue if they exist never saw one drop so far)

Dredge has gotten MORE TEDIOUS, I did not think that they found a designer that could make this god aweful dungeon even worse, but A-Net managed to make this particular dungeon worse every patch. Now its on an all time low. (Why can you not die on the plates anymore its ridicilous)

Oh and dredge + some mist instabilities just forces your group to quit or redo the whole dungeon.

Add to the fact that now you get Dredge more frequently because before the update you had a 1/9 chance to get Dredge, so yeah you had id sometimes but it was bearable. Now its a 1/3 chance.

Guess how often I had dredge for the 10 times I have run Fractals since the patch (and then simply quit them, I refuse to go in there ever again)…

Oh and I have a ton of fractal skins, want one of my 3 staff skins? But still not one single 1h Sword skin (which is the only one I actually want).

Well I am done with fractals and pretty much with GW2 all together, every patch made things worse since the release, there are some good things but it feels like the fun is completly missing from the game now.

I hated and groaned everytime I saw the ****** Dredge fractal before the patch. Now I simply have stopped doing fractals, I get Dredge alot now and I simply cannot do it anymore its just too much of a mindless chore to endure.

Do you know how fun Dredge was on 31? With the mosmann killing the guy doing the gears 10 times until we were lucky and he went for someoen else?

Or how awesome it is when the Mossmann appears underwater where you can hardly dodge him because he is super fast.

Or all the other effects of the higher level fractsl. Oh exploding enemies…. yay for 100000 trillion dredge exploding!

If you want Pay2Win go to Rift, there you can buy a full epic set for just as low as 500 Euros!

Seriously, the Shop in GW2 is very nice, it offers alot of convenience and there is nothing unbalancing or overpowering you could get out of the gemshop.

Sure you can convert gems to gold so you could aquire ingame stuff. But it does not take very long to actually get the stuff with ingame means. Look at exotics, you can get a good set of items for what 100 gold? Thats easily doable in a few hours of gameplay. (Or a bit market trading on the TP)

There are no real inhibitors, look again at Rift, I have startet Rift again because it went free to play and its horrid how Pay2Win it has become.

You can only get dungeon gear very slow, there is a once per day limit to get dungeon marks for dungeon gear (there is no real limitation like that in GW2, sure you get less if you perma run the dungeon, but you still get some marks, in Rift you get none after that 1 run per day (for all dungeons))

After playing Rift again for a while, I have to say that GW2 is absolutely not Pay2Win and the shop is the most unobstrusive I have seen in any f2p game so far.

The change did something really strange with the shadows, when I zoom in on my medium T3 Sylvari armor, its like blobs of shawods dance over it like mad, its looking really bad

I am so glad when I saw the “a new build is aviable” message, that I checked for update notes and read them trough. Then sat on my leatherworker and made 10.000 bales of silk cloth from the silk scraps I had stocked for Ascended armors before updating.

Ranger

Remove the range damage reduction on the Longbow for closer range. It is simply silly and unproductive.

on second guess, make pets immune to all form of indirect targeted damage in pve (exclude this for spvp and wvw)

RNG: Why so much of GW2 content has to be shut behind stupid high RNG factors
Diminishing Returns
Fractals: why is the reward still lower than anywhere else and RNG skins

I have gotten plenty of weapons from FOTM 48, I have run 48 quit alot but recently just stopped. Why? I have 21 weapons, guess what the one weapon, the singular one I actually want I have not gotten. I have multiples of most of them, but I have never ever gotten that one 1h sword skin I really want.

The amount of weapon drops is not too bad on 48, actually getting that skin I want seems to be impossible.

Strange, everyone talks about Ranger being nonexistant. I do really love my Ranger, I have the most hours logged on my ranger and also just like how they feel in combat.

I can do all parts of the game just fine, sure there were really rough parts to being a Ranger, but I feel that currently the ranger is quit good. Everyone that complains must be doing something terribly wrong with the class.

PVE Rangers are beasts, try something new instead of your old Shortbow/Greatsword/Longbow Spam builds ^^. Sword+Horn/Axe is just crazy. The amount of damage is awesome and in addition it offers so many dodges.

WvW for small roaming I like them alot, good damage, good survivability and the pets bring some good buffs to the table. (And if you want to bring up Zerg play, it does not matter what you play in a 100+ man zerg.)

Spvp good over all duel class and can do well in a group if you can use Sword/Axe well. Just murders anything really and can avoid a good amount of damage.

As for nobody playing rangers, when my Guild does guild missions we joke about our Ranger only group :P

Also with the last patch my Pets actually survived a bit in combat against bosses so far. I need to test this more but it looked good for the last 3 hours of doing champs, some world bosses and some of those bosses in the mad kings realm.

The buff to the Fern hound was really nice, I like that pet good overall damage and with its heal + regen it now brings nice utility. 2nd the Moa for Fury or the cat for might and you have quit some nice group buffs with you.

I can not understand all that whining around here.
But apparently its whining in every class frorum, but I have no clue about what. I play all the 8 classes and they all play just fine if you can adapt a little bit and know what you are doing (well maybe not the Engi, have not played that one in a while so cannot say for sure there.)

and our ranger pets will still die in 99% of all boss encounters because they cannot jump/dodge or avoid any of the big hitting aoe’s, doesnt matter how much hp they have.

I would actually buy it if it was an unlimited Account wide unlock. Pay 800 gems and be able to reset the traits anytime on any character on my account. Not this stupid 1 time use.

Fun? Sorry my definition of FUN is NOT what Tequatl is currently. Standing in a pulk of 80+ players unable to see anythign with 5-10 seconds of lag between skill activations while I can only guess if I am dead yet or not and just spam auto attack on teq because I can’t do much more due to lag even on lowest graphic settings.

If that is how A-Net envisions raiding, thanks NO.

No i actually complain that the loot is still the same. Just did Shattere, again only 3 blue 1 green in his boss chests and the usual amount of dragonite ore, but now he takes the full 15 minutes.

Dear Arenanet. The addition of difficulty to the world bosses is much appreciated. I just did Golem MK 2 and the Jungle Worm and Shadow Behemoth, they were interesting and much stronger.

Now why is the loot still complete garbage?

On Golem MK 2 you at least added 2 Champion chests as additional rewards but that is not really much.

However on both Shadow Behemoth and Jungle Worm the loot was the exact same as it was before patch, only that they were significantly harder.

Can we please get increased Dragonite Ore drops from the lower level bosses now that they are harder and some extra rewards? Its disheartening killing them for 10-15 minutes and then only get the usual 4 blues as reward from the end chest!

Buttercup.5871:

Liadri. When I killed her in the last second, downed, just before the floor opened.

I had that moment too after 4 hours of fruitless tries at 5 in the morning ^^

Yesterday fractal level 48 and an assasins weapon box drops. That was pretty much a Oh yes event. Because I can save myself leveling my Huntsman to 500 now ^^

The Empyreal shards are the bummer but after I found out that you can get them in fractals, I just run more fractals (on 48 you get around 30+ – 40).

In addition it seems high level fractals do have a not abysmal chance to drop the weapon boxes. In my last runs I have seen 3 boxes drop for various players on 48 (I got one too)

After 1 week of this new content I have 3 characters equipped with Ascended Weapons (of which 2 were crafted) So its not impossible but personally I would welcome a change that the weapons only require 250 of the materials because its a pita to farm so many for my 8 chars (I will need 40+ weapons in the long run so its insane and then there will be armors)

I crafted the Ascended Staff for my Guardian today.

First the damage increase is quite noticeable, now properly buffed critting for 2.2k on auto attacks and up to 4k on the orb (which is a rather nice dps increase for my support guardian)

Second

THANK YOU A-NET!

Finally a Staff that looks really good but is not plagued by a trillion particle effects (I like my weapons to look good, have nice detail and as few as possible stupid lightning effects zipping around) The glows are subtile and when I zoomed in to take a closer look WOW just WOW. Whichever Artist made the Orb of the Staff you are awesome!

I refined some materials on my Huntsman (456) and got XP for refining the Ascended Materials, however second profession is Leatherworker, so it might be a juweler specific issue.

Just Towers do not give Dragonite, they give Azure. In WvW only Keeps (5 Shards per boss) and Stonemist (10 Dragonite) give you that stuff. And its a pitiful low amount for Keeps and Stonemist. The Temples give you 30. I can not understand why Stonemist wouldnt give 20 at least as well.

Shadow Behemoth gave me 3 Dragonite. I guess Dragonite will take forever. I did 4 hours of WvW today on a karma train, all the dragons I could snatch and some temples and only made enough Dragonite to get 1 Dragonite Bar (so around 120 dragonite for 6 hours of gameplay). While I got like Triple that in Azure and I have a silly amount of Bloodstone Shards in my bank (around 7k)

I tought that we would only get the bonus chests (with the yellow item) once a day. But today I did Tequatl at around 2:30 where I looted his chest. Then again at 5:20 but this time the chest did not appear for me.

Is this intended or a bug? Because if its intended how are we supposed to collect 500 dragonite for 1 ascended weapon if those chests only spawn once every day.

20 for a dungeon run, 4-10’ish for taking Towers in WvW

Worse is Dragonite Ore. 5 For castles and only 10 for the Stonemist castle WTF?!

Also you get 20 for dragons and 30 for temples. but apparently you can only loot that chest once per day.

Ranger!

Good DPS, nice support options and whats not to like of a big brown grizzly bear fighting along side you.

(To prevent stupid comments, no this is no Troll – The Ranger is actually a versatile and interesting class that can enhance any dungeon runs if the player knows what he is doing with his class – The main issue I think stems with bad Ranger players)

I bought the GW 2 soundtrack when the game was released and also had bad experience with DirectSong. After 8 weeks of no reports I wrote to their support, it took another month and 10 mails to their support to finally get my CD’s shippped.

The only upside of that was that I was offered the GW 1 soundtrack for free as compensation for the huge delay in shipping.

So my best advice would be to be polite, ask when you can expect your shipment and if you can get some kind of compensation for the really long wait.

Is there any EU server that got the Temple of Balthasar open so I could get some Obsidian shards?

I would love to know what those portals are supposed to actually do. I heard people in Lions Arch say that they were teleported to some place random but the portals have a really high chance to simply fail.

Is that intended? What about the “can teleport you to some dangerous place or very rewarding place or something inbetween”.

Are the twisted watchwork portals finally working or do they still just bump you down?

Personally I HATE Liadri. Simple and pure hate. I have just quit trying her now because I dont see any value after 100+ tries. I know how the encounter is supposed to work. I know where to move. However either I get lagged out for 1-2 seconds and land in the middle of a shade or I cannot see the red circles and just run into them.

Its too bad the encounter is designed quit well and it was fun the first 20-30 times figuring it out. But I simply cannot finnish Liadri. I tried it with 4 different characters and a ton of different specs and none helped me get her down.

Same problem here, cant access 2 towers. Please fix this.

At first every Champion and Boss dropped one of those new loot bags when you killed them inside the pavillion. After a couple of hours A-net removed the drops from all those champions inside the pavillon.

I was getting 4-5 gold in 1 hour (some of my guildmates had more luck with drops but thats just me as usual) which was decent for me because I never get over 1 gold an hour no matter how hard i try (and dont tell me to farm cof. I simply get no drops anywhere that are worth anything)

And now its back to no drops at all in there. First I tought I might do that stuff every day for an hour or two. Now I will never go there again since I have the archievments already.

I payed 50 bucks for the box. I might have payed more in gems, but apparently A-Net does not want my money.