Guild Wars 2

Etien.4601:

Erebus.3897:

Etien.4601:

Yo dawg? Tickets? You want moar RNG! No!

I freaking hate with burning passion his game’s RNG…. but knowing ANet…..ya neva kno

Currently there is a discussion about improving loot drops and rewards in the BLTC section in the forums, from John Smith himself. You guys might want to check it out and add suggestions.

will definetively check it out ty m8

Etien.4601:

Yo dawg? Tickets? You want moar RNG! No!

I freaking hate with burning passion his game’s RNG…. but knowing ANet…..ya neva kno

if they were buyable it would be along these lines : 10 Black Lion Claim Tickets + 250 Pristine Fractal Relics for a Fractal Weapon Box

I used to love this game, but now I find myself logging in less and less, mainly the search for a precursor (which is all I’m missing for my Bolt) has left me down, and tired. Dungeons became a mechanic chore after a while, blast here, dps here, dodge here, pull here, stack here. Fractals I quit doing them since the time investment vs the rewards are abysmal and doing a 38 or 49 for 2 blues and a green is hardly motivating. WvW is fun for the people, but I eventually got tired of running the same 2 maps (since all BLs are replicas of each other) over and over and over and over and over again… EotM is just KTrain 24/7, albeit the map would be awesome for some more classical WvW. PvP, well it just doesn’t cater to my taste to have a build on a stat diet, a small map, and some people that just seem either coked out, or 12 yo on redbull
(not all of them, but the ones that are are VERY vocal). LS has had its ups and downs, and while I try to log in to play it, well lest just say that 3 hours of content won’t keep me hooked. Add to this things like skins behind BLC Tickets which i despise… I’m alright with a cosmetic paywall….. but an RNG Cosmetic Paywall is just awful.

I was not a fan of the expansion proposal….but at this point i really feel that GW2 needs an expansion that includes a BULK of new zones, weapon and armor skins, quests, lore, WvW maps, 1 or 2 races…. that would really bring back the OOMPH to the game.

tl:dr: GW2 used to take most of my freetime….now I debate between some playtime and Friends Reruns.

The inflation for conversion gold2gems is too high, and the algorithm used to drive said conversion is obscure and unknown. this makes the gold2gems conversion innadequate for new players.

Unless that is you use the [Legendary MasterCard] and the [Gift of Credit] to buy stuff

GreedWars2

#GemGate2k14 #OccupyLA

lol but in all seriousness, now stop it, rollback or update, i dont think this is something that people are gonna put up with for a long period of time

Perhaps we should be campaigning so that people DONT buy any gems with real money, until they rollback or adjust… see if their “metrics” then tell em something, since 21 pages of vocal en masse dissaproval in less than 12 hours won’t

oh ANet, just when we were getting on the right track, u have to come and spoil the moment.

Sometimes I truly wonder what you define as a player, because from recent “updates” I think your definition of player equates the English language definition of Chimpanzee; and Ease of Use seems to mean Absurd Basicality.

This was a terrible design decision, only dwarfed my the nerve of defending it.

Its things like this, that push people away. GW2 has such potential, but at some point the patience to admire said potential will run out amidst latent disregard for the returning customer.

i think it might be a Gold-to- Gems Convertion-o-tron, that works for converting coin to gems in quantities of 1

lol!!!! go home LORD u r drunk!

reminds me of the kids that managed to lock the Wurm in QL…. i saw a post on reddit

I agree with OP…. when i get a stealth thief i often say like sigh, here we go but dont think its a broken mechanic or it needs a nerf…..

QQ much? dont like the score? dont sleep and flip it

if it’s red its dead

i find Christina’s story to be very touching, but giving exlusive rewards to a single player would be a bad move imho.

Perhaps an exclusive mini available to all those who make a donation for MS through the ingame store?

that way we all can get awesome Taimi minis, AND support MS research?

dredge is BORING, too long, and i HATE the noises dredge make, let alone when i have to slay torrential amounts of the little creepers.

Even if u know the mechanics, and/or the exploits, every single time u get that fractal, u just sigh in front of ur PC, be it with guildies, friends or pugs… we all hate it…

Hell we have learned how to run it, exploit it, and have found a work around most of the “fixes” ANet has provided.

I think is time that ANet realizes Dredge is a faulty design and remove it altogether…. Even if not they should either kill it or redesign it due to popular demand….

+1

fifteencharsandwhatnot

1. Skin Locker for PvE/WvW
2. Trait Sheets, or a way to save builds and swap ’em around effortlessly.
3. More Weapons per class…. after a year of using 1 or 2 builds and same weapon rotations, it kinda gets stale.
4.New Permanent areas
5. Continuation of the Dragons Storyline….

summarizing my sentiment for this character

hell i wouldnt mind an update a month, or even two months, if it came with compelling plots, interesting story lines, and layered characters that make you wanna play the content, and speculate as to what is to come, or how will it unravel….

perhaps the pace at which ANet wants to update the content in GW2, in order to stay relevant to its playerbase, with all the new mmos coming….its in turn, in fact… alienating said playerbase, due to not being able to relate to ingame lore or storytelling anymore…

i just could never wrap my head around as to why having so much lore to choose from they decided to provide us with a half cooked no reason evil doer…. the LS at this point in time has ceased to be interesting for me. there is no emotional attachment to the plot anymore, i just hope this arc ends soon and we can go back to slaying dragons.

Hell, make it so scarlet kills trehearne and we avenge his death by slaying her…. and lets just carry on with THE BIG PICTURE….

some of the ensuing madness from the weekend till today! awesome match! im loving it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tANfYbatr6o

With buffs…

Knight’s Armor+Beryl Orbs+Ascended Berserker Trinkets.

LOLOLOLOL no fix AGAIN!

id like asceded armor!!!!

no RNG tho plz

but if its 400+ relics per item i would be ok with that.

just ran a HotW with [Rome].

Buttersmooth.

keep it up!

Color me curious!!!!!! ill message u as soon as I’m home!

What will be the admission exam? Fracs 26+(seems like a good lvl to test wo requiring absolute fractal knowledge)? Arah 4? cof 1 (lol)?

Kimhyuna.1035:

PainShot.7154:

Luthien.7938:

[…] told at one point to stay in a safe spot while they fought a boss.
[..] was this just an elitist group I happened to find myself grouped with? I’m really hoping that’s not what this game’s community is like normally.

Dont worry. A elitist party probably kick you at the very first moment when you demostrate dont know what are you doing and, most important, SAYING NOTHING ABOUT THAT.
This “elitist group” carry you to the end of the dungeon, give you free work tokens and full cover on death situations and YOU are here, in the forums, crying like a baby because THEY have the fault of ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .

L O O O O O L

If that is elitist, i would love to see you being kicked hundred times from “gentle soul partys”. Right at middle of run because you DONT SAY ITS YOUR FIRST TIME; when they note your lack of all interest on make yourself useful for the group.

I love how the community of this game has degraded. In a few more years, it might be equivalent to another big MMO. Sad, very very very sad.

Not degrading, but after close to a year you expect that people know what they are doing, UNLESS they specifically tell u they don’t, IN WHICH CASE 95% of the times people will be eager to help and teach, BUT if you hold your mouth, I’ll assume not that you are inexperienced in a certain path or dungeon, but that you have no clue how to play your class; therefore it’s YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to inform your PUG that you’re newbie to the dungeon. I GUARANTEE that 90% of the people will be superfriendly and eager to help, give tips, and won’t mind rezzing you a bunch of times .

only exception being the “ZOMG SPEED $$$$ CoF FARM, PING PING ZERKER 20h RUN” Farmers.

Ratty.5176:

How does.. “This person has not quite enough AR” equate to “This person has no clue how to play”? I know plenty of players that can do fractals without the optimal AR and not be a burden, hell any player that has done level 40+ knows how to avoid most of the Agony so does it matter if he’s on his Alt? The only point it may be an issue is on the Maw. And as long as he gets somewhere safe to rez at the stage changes it’s not even an issue.

New to fractals and doing a level to high with no AR as they don’t understand how it works. It happens, and they should not really be in a high level team.

And people should be made aware if your a bit low.

THIS!

at levels 30+ pugging with someone who has not optimal AR is not a problem, i mean when u pug under 30, as i was leveling my mesmer’s frac level id encounter LOTS of people pugging 10+ or 20+ fractals who had NO IDEA what even AR was…

had a mesmer in fracs 18, who was in green an blues, had no build whatsoever, and was a using a green GS in dredge 18… i could almost hear the veteran x200 dredge in bombs laughing at me when i asked the player what armor he had, and demanded that he pinged it.

I dont like to quit my groups, but that time i was in the verge of a nervous breakdown

A compilation of general rules, ive come up with, through both mine and my guildies experience fractaling.

• don’t run an instance if you don’t have enough AR, even if u dodge well, maw will get you.

• Almost no one minds begginers, we do mind deaf people, if you dont know a fight, ask, and follow directions, chances are you will get us wiped if you dont.

• people will get downed regardless of their ability to play, so rez and dont bash.

• dont run a 10+ fractal if you just hit 80, get geared up first…. greens and blues dont count as gear in a lvl 10+ fractal.

• if someone tells you, that you should equip reflects, or stability skills, listen plz.

• if you own the instace dont ragequit, ever, or i’ll hope u burn in hell, slowly mind you.

• dont ragequit, makes you look like an impacient troll.

• some pugs will be better than others.

• ranger pets MUST be stowed at certain places.

• if you kill the targeted chanter, you will get a group kick, probably.

• wisps sometimes take 1, sometimes take 10 tries, deal with it.

• reroll if dredge is 1st fractal, yes. ask for reroll if 3rd, not likely.

• Razer Comms, Dolby Axon, are your fractal VoIP friends, or skype.

• Don’t ever try running fractals if you are in on a schedule, chances are you’ll end up ragequitting.

Carry on adding people!

awesome skills mate.
butterfly power ftw!

i salute u.

LOL!!!!!!! thye r never gonna fix this! i just hope they would be straight up about it.

“Phantasmal Berserker will remain critting for 2.5k tops, so dont use GS”

and we all would at leats have it clear

6 minute men…cof cof

here’s my ping plotter…. its like beyond unplayable.

I’d have better luck sending smoke signals to your servers….

it was not like this, i’ve played for 8 months and its the first time i’ve experienced this.

found this handy little webpage, which lists which servers have an open CoF or CoE, so those farming adventures become quicker and more effective.

cheers.

http://jsfiddle.net/KoxAlen/ZV9fu/embedded/result/

Ioflux.4369:

The difference in bringing a pro thief and a pro warrior is minimal at best. Warriors can kill the gate before final boss faster given they actually do a proper dps rotation. The difference in time that you’re looking at in optimal dps groups with thief vs warriors is <30s difference. Warriors just have more cushion for failure than thieves.

The difference between

*4 Zerker Warriors
*1 Zerker Mesmer

and,

*3 Zerker Warriors
*1 Zerker or Knights d/d thief
*1 Zerker Mesmer

is probably 10 secs less per run on the latter, which in a 2h farm is 1 run more, which is more money.

Actually lately I’ve been farming CoF1 with 3 wars, me on mesmer, and 1 thief.

Thief breaks door before effigy faster than warrior.

makes the run about 40 secs to 1 min shorter, since they crit for a lot also.

June update:

Mesmer:
-Updated Illusionary Berserker tooltip
-Illusionary Berserker renamed to Butterfly Tickle

seriously? that gonna hold their “its a floaters problem” stance? even being proved wrong again and again!

ugh….

Solid Ocean: At some locations, if you fall you will fall for a long time, and finally end up in a water instance that connects to dredge and ascalonian fractals, you will not me able to wp, or quit to hub and back, since you’ll then kick everyone out if you own the instance….

glitch =/= tactic…

and tactics is what fractals require pass 35+, if its too hard don’t do them… or learn to play better.

1. Join a guild, guild leaders are always recruiting (at least in my server), you’ll find dungeon runs to be much more enjoyable with guildies.

2. www.gw2lfg.com

just finished asura path in over 2 hours.

ive tried every other dung… and this is a broken piece of unfinished work…. im not saying that i want speed runs…. im saying that 100 mobs its hardly a mechanic…. like really really hate this dung…..

it was so awesome!!!!!! loved the bosses!!!!! 2 at a time with awesome AoEs that kept u on ur toes!!!! fantastic!!!! u need to dodge, jump, kite, …. know ur rez cycles!!!! awesome dungeon!!!! keep it plz….or make it a fractal or sth…..!!!!!

Just to congratulate the team on an AMAZING dungeon!!!!!!!!!!!

Loved the length, difficulty, and the final bosses were spot on… specially the second phase of the berserker… the “Fire Everything” at the first part was awesome, we wiped a bit, but completed it in just over an hour.

loot was meh…. but well that’s the RNG…. all in all Awesome!!!!

Sorrow’s Embrace
5

Pro:
interesting bosses, and adequate kinds of mobs.

Con:
The armor is ugly, makes u look like a pizza oven… unless you are farming for Juggernaut legendary no one runs it.

nerf p1… but modify the droprates of t6 mats, and precs… cuz the drop rate of any prec is idiot low… i have a much better chance running cofp1 for an hour a day.. and ill have gold to buy it in a month or so…

plus if they do coe p1 is fast enough once u get to know it…. hotw p1 too…

i dont like though the awful grind that becomes fishing for a prec…

ohh and that stupid MF stat is worthless ever since they nerfed ktrains….

Im running it cuz i need the Gift of the Forgeman… BUT if i wasent grinding for a Legen… id never touch it…

Armor is UGLY as UGLY gets, no matter how you dye it… you’ll look like a walking oven…

and dredge make constipated noises… eehgh, NO, eehgh…. UGH!

=ò————<0.o>————ó=

unlike the quaggan skin, charr is dissapearing when dancing or emoting!

will this be fixed?

EverythingXen.1835:

Levistis.8356:

Oglaf.1074:

Iruwen.3164:

fantasy.8395:

Time and time again i go from mmo to mmo and I find that devs feel the need to change something that was working or people enjoy

Well, a lot of people complained about it beforehand, so criticize them and not ANet, they just did what these people called for.

Really? I literally know of no-one who ever complained about AC exploration needing to be change…

Many people said the bosses HP needed to be lowered and special attacks/more abilities should be added. People complained that trash was too easy and just tedious due to high HP – now the hp have been drastically lowered and the trash now have stronger abilites.

To be fair, that extends to every boss and silver mob in any dungeon ever. Hopefully they all get the same treatment (sans bugs).

Wut??? maybe CoF need a revamp too…. but for the love of all leave Arah alone…. its sufficiently demanding as is