Guild Wars 2

I’ve looked on the support forums and I didn’t see anything related to living story purchasing errors.

I’ve deleted all my mail and my TP has been clear for a long time. I’m not sure what other work arounds there may be.

I was able to purchase all the rest of season 2 besides The Dragon’s reach part 2 and Point of No return. I keep getting a network error. I have been trying since Sunday (2/15)> Who else has had an issue like mine and is there a work around, or do I just need to wait for Anet to get it fixed?

It already takes a ton of commitment to make a legendary. RNG has never been my ally in anything I’ve ever played. I don’t mind taking the time to hunt down all the nodes we need, or even trying to get gold, but adding a time and money sink just to do it, isn’t fun in my opinion.

When they first announced Legendaries, and said you don’t need a group to complete them, I was thrilled. I thought you’d follow some sort of epic quest line while collecting the items needed to create a legendary, not rely on RNG. I understand getting item drops to get the Ectos, or gold, was going to be part of it, but not farming for a chance at getting what you wanted.

I know this is a game, but if I want something in real life, I get a job, work hard, and save up money. When I reach that goal, it feels rewarding, not like I got lucky. Although finding and keeping a job feels like real life RNG these days lol.

Don’t stack Vit over toughness. What good is a big health pool if you have nothing to protect it? Your health will melt as fast as it does now. you’ll just notice you’re being hit for larger numbers.

At least in PvP Toughness is much better than Vit stacking.

I will agree. Those Rangers need a change to their damage. Other than that, people should stop using the word “tank” in this game. It’s misleading.

I play a thief and can control mobs with sword /pistol utilizing my two daze abilities and a blind.

On my warrior, I can run mace / shield to daze, block, and stun mobs, but when those things are on cooldown, I’m as squishy as anyone else.

Neither can tank. They can only control.

I haven’t played the other professions so I can’t comment on how they do control.

The main problem here is that you’re trying to keep people alive. There is no tank. There is no healer. There is no aggro, taunts, threat, or any of that. Everyone is responsible for their own life. If you want to play support, that means you buff your allies and send a little regen their way. You can not heal them through anything. Don’t even try. If they don’t move, that’s their ownkittenfault. You have to drop the mindset that someone is going to keep mobs off you. They can’t. That’s when you utilize your cc and conditions to survive.

If you missed out on the part where they took out the traditional trinity, you should probably go watch their manifesto video where they say there are no tanks or healers.

In place of these there are three roles that should be filled:

Control (utilize dazes, stuns, blinds, cripple, immobilize, knockdowns, causing weakness, chill, fear)

Support ( Spreading boons, dropping regeneration fields, removing conditions, causing vulnerability)

Damage ( stacking conditions and high damage output)

Hello Sorrow’s Furnace guilds! I’m a level 80 thief who’s looking for a guild that enjoys running dungeons, doing WvWvW, and events out in the world. I’m not looking for a “hardcore” guild. I’m looking for a more social, enjoy the game, type guild. I am a college student who doesn’t have a lot of time to play but enjoys the time that I can log-in.

I’m looking to start running dungeons for badges with people I can trust to do well. I have a few story modes left, but those should be quick with a good guild group. I have vent and a mic but I probably won’t talk much due to being in a room with others around. I will happily chat in guild chat and communicate in parties to the best of my ability.

I look forward to hearing from the wonderful guilds on Sorrow’s Furnace. In-game character name is Noctilica Aneton.

It was an adjustment, not a nerf. A nerf would be to the damage numbers. <—- to clarify for those who didn’t read the OP.

Also, I’m glad they went this route rather than the numbers. Numbers are more difficult to adjust.

Eeeee.3048:

Well…. Zhaitan is dead.. At least ingame items say so..
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shards_of_Zhaitan
“A small piece of Zhaitan, forever dead..”

That item is forever dead because it was a part of Zhaitan. It’s not saying Zhaitan is dead.

Eeeee.3048:

Game launching 1 month before Mists of Pandaria is not a coincidence.

You do realize that Blizzard announced their release date after Anet did. Blizzard also planed to have their content patch the day of GW2 launch. Blizzard waited to announce things because they knew that if they did it before, they would be ignored.

I came back to it and it was working. I’m not sure if it was because I was there when it started or what.

I made a female Human warrior with the longest hair style (it has a clip to hold the bangs back) and when I move with a shield on my back, the lower half of the hair clips through the shield. I’m not sure if this is my graphical limitation or a visual bug. I wanted to report it in any case.

I found some kids playing Destiny’s Edge in a cave. An event started where they wanted to quiz me on my knowledge. I cannot speak to any of the children for this event. No option comes up to talk with them.

Maniac.5907:

Mexay.4521:

I don’t understand what people expected?

How else do we fight him? He’s massive.

GW2 is supposed to make sense, unlike say… WoW or hell, even GW1

Dude, Shatterer, Tequatl, and Claw of Jormag have almost the same size of zhaitan and we down them hacking, slashing, throwing arrows, cannonballs, lazers, and lots of stuff…
Zhaitan is not that big, and he just stands there grabing the giant stone pillar while the ship stays floating at his side and from time to time he spits some brown thing that it doesnt event hit us.
So yeah, the ending is lackluster, it would been awesome if part of zhaitan landed on the ship, we had to deal with adds and weakening him, then we have to down him using the cannons and he crash landed into the ground floor, and finish him as the other dragons but with constant minions spawning from both sides, risen and pact’s soldiers. All that while playing the epic music that sounds in the background when killing the dragons / adds that spawn on the ship just before facing Zhaitan.

Zhaitan is much, much larger than any of these. You don’t really get to see how massive he is because we don’t get to face him head on.

I agree on the fight needing more. I was expecting to drop him to the ground and then finish him off down there, maybe even going inside him or climbing on him to tear him apart. Maybe it is bugged and he’s supposed to fight back, but it was anti-climactic and the music didn’t queue for me… so it was rather boring. I know we weakened him a lot, but we didn’t weaken him that much. I could have gone with a gauntlet style of weak minions (not the silver or veterans) with us and Destiny’s Edge pushing through with those Golem battlesuits behind, blasting everything in our path. Basically, Zhaitan throws everything he’s got at us because he knows that if we get to him, it’s over.

myyth.6798:

1)Ranged dps type – Engineer (for something different since elementalist seems like your typical fireballing fantasy wizard)

The elementalist isn’t your typical mage. You constantly switch between four attunements to be at your best. Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth each with it’s own style and theme. Don’t assume the archetypes here are as simple as others :p

Here’s a tip you should keep close: No matter which class you pick, don’t forget to dodge!

I usually play a caster (I played Elementalist, Necromancer and Mesmer in GW1. Mage in WoW) but I chose a Thief this time and I haven’t looked back.

I just hit 80 today and my mindset hasn’t changed. I still have to complete my story, clear each zone 100%, find and complete all the puzzles, get in some Keg Brawls, explore all the WvW zones, rank up in sPvP, get stuff for a Legendary or so, run the last 6 dungeons and all explorable modes, get exotic gear, and start saving up tokens for some of the cool dungeon armor.

After that, I’ll probably make my first alt.

To my knowledge, the guesting system is not yet in place. Once it is, you can visit and play on your friend’s server. The only restriction, that I can remember, is not being able to participate in WvW. I’m not sure about sPvP

There will be expansions. So who knows what the future holds.

Mato.1345:

Ennarian.4620:

Your first problem was trying to keep everyone alive with heals. Everyone in the group needs to utilize their conditions and CC as well as dodging and self healing at the right times. People also need to get people up when they are downed. Don’t just tell them to run back.

I see your point and understand what you are getting at, but I was trying to make out my point that the group was taking so much damage (no tanking, no certainty of being the target, therefore making dodging a little more tricky, etc) that werent it for my supporting healing and slowing down and immobilising of mobs the fight could have probably been even shorter than it was in some cases.

Furthermore the level of coordination required surpasses the ability of a general PUG. It might be possible in a group of guildies with TS or a group of already experienced players but not in a group of randomers that have entered the dungeon for the first time. I do like the thought of story/explorable modes but maybe they should introduce a mode that is doable also by the general PUG, yet keep the options to make it more challenging

I tried to look at the combat log to see what killed me, but it seemed lacking in information. With PuG’s, communication is even more important. I play a thief and as such I don’t have a lot of CC. I can slow and I can daze but that’s about it. I went sword / pistol for a spammable daze. It seemed to help somewhat.

Bosses are easier than trash (except Lovers…) and I think the main reason is because your pugmates only have 1 target to hit. The mobs do have tells before they hit you, but for the average person, they’ll never see it because they tunnel vision into auto attacking.

I think some sort of tuning is in order, but the biggest thing is for people to learn how to play this game and break the old habits from the other mmo’s they came from.

Here’s a good article, done by the fine people at Gamebreaker.tv, about players needing to relearn the way they do groups.
http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/guild-wars-2-adjustment-period/

Your first problem was trying to keep everyone alive with heals. Everyone in the group needs to utilize their conditions and CC as well as dodging and self healing at the right times. People also need to get people up when they are downed. Don’t just tell them to run back.

Yes, AC was difficult but the explorable mode there (at least the part with the Asura) was very difficult. I’m not sure what we were doing wrong besides not hitting the hitbox of the graveling mounds. I think things should be tuned a little better, but people need to learn this new party system and bring the right weapons and skills.