Guild Wars 2

Got hit by a queen bee (possibly mid-dodge, or right at the start of dodge?) And I have 0 hearts. I imagine I’ll die if I get hit again, but…

Well here’s to farming lvl 10 personal story quests. Watch, theyll make them really hard now this next patch instead of addressing the real problem haha

Title! In the past its been a few week after content is removed so I’m very curious.
I hope its not the 14th…. Its finals week here! bllaarrggg

What about fused weapon claim tickets? Oi, I wanna know when they plan to take it out of the BLC…

Still wondering when/if they remove it from the tables… C’mon this is sort of important to give us a warning about SOMEWHERE on the forums.

You have a limited time to get the gauntlet ticket, you just dont have to use it right away.

I’m asking about the fused weapon skin ticket from the BLC. They tend to remove those.

Any word on wqhen theyll stop dropping? ugh finals week but i want one! 20ish keys with no luck lol

I was terrified that people were going to be “You’re an idiot learn to check other websites”. I’m happy that at least some people agree lol.

I wish there was some way to break down this stupid quiver to the bloods I wasted. I couldve gotten one of the more expensive parts of my legendary out of the way. >:[

I’m really sick of these things happening. Is it too much to ask to get things posed in “Announcements” or a new sub-forum like “Upcoming”.

I would really like it if they would post the skins like Rox’s Quiver in the announcements section instead of random websites like Reddit and other news websites to find out early. I check here, from the horse’s mouth as to what’s going to be coming on. I don’t feel like blowing time on websites for MMOs and stuff because I want to validate the source to somewhere on here. It would be really great to either put it in announcements or have a sub-forum that is about “Upcoming” things.

Within the last two days, I just wasted 250 bloods to make an ascended quiver just to find out I could have done the INFINITELY cheaper option of applying the skin to the ascended capacitor. I’m really, really ticked off that there’s no mention of these things early HERE where it should be located, not some third-party website where I can’t always verify things.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

steal/pistolwhip/quickness/unload type builds out there, but that D/D thief overpowers and obscures the potential for other builds to rise up. In my eyes they could use some more versatility… I know that when I play my ranger I can many different things at once – I have a large tool box of sometimes very useful tools, and that makes me harder to bring down since I am not so easily countered.

Well this is longer than I was thinking it would be, and now I have subjected the thief forum to my punctuation, so I better stop. Also I’ll admit to being little on edge in this forum… I’m a ranger in the middle of a thieves den!

Well, that’s exactly WHY I made a thief. I want to be able to go the spike damage route. By “adding more versatility” that usually means a nerf to that aspect instead of buffs to other aspects and other ways to build it. People whine because their class does’t do glass cannon as well. Well there SHOULD be one or two classes that do. And if you want that sort of class, play that class!

I agree, change the bauble color and do a hover-over. Or make it a bauble that has a sparkle on it or something

For the jump, run until you begin to see your character stepping “down” (like they’re about to fall off) THEN jump, and you’ll make it every time.

Edit: Dodge jum kitten iously the most difficult thing ever to do on my erganomic keyboard, for the love of god don’t require it later/ever, it’s sketchy at best even with low ping.
Edit edit:
Of course I now say that and manage to do it three times in a row just for fun.

Josh Foreman.8250:

Pifil.5193:

Now who’s name should I be cursing when a monkey knocks me off a leaf into poison water miles from dry land? At the moment I’m just cursing the monkey but it’s not the monkeys fault.

Curse me for making a swamp with poison water. Curse Lisa for spawning the monkey there. Curse Jeff for building the Monkey. Curse Trevor for animating him. Curse Jerry for giving him such an annoying/cute scream. Curse Byron for not making a “this monkey is too annoying” bug.

You forgot “Curse you Link! Curse you Zelda!” for good measure.

I sincerely hope “good as possible” =/ annoying as kitten and elitist.

My main is a THF. I do D/D and SB. I’m usually the last to die and the one who coordinates and hell of a lot more team-useful skills than most people.

usually 30/30/x/x/x the last few I change depending what I’m doing.
I nearly go full zerker on everything with a blend of runes.

In spite of going full zerker and being specced to do D/D, I don’t blindly D/D like an idiot. I go in for the kill with bosses and spike them down when less than 25% health, I split off of finish trash mobs or things that are getting AoE’d but people aren’t focusing. In spite of high numbers and such, I still will make sure to take Shadow Refuge and Smoke Screen. SS is seriously so awesome between the ability to invis yourself/others if near it with D/D (Situational and a bit sketchy to rely on though), blind with SB all over the place, and block projectiles, which, in fractals, pretty much is the most OP support move people in parties can take.

I find myself often doing a sizable amount of party DPS if that’s all I do, but I take breaks to actually position myself/SS/SR instead of being kitten and attacking all over the place going ZOMG DPSSSSSSSS.

I have to say, compared to war/necro, I have to maintain my attention a lot more to NOT die, considering I pretty much get 1- or 2-shot in 24+ fractals and in some dungeons.

I guess my point is (tldr):
A good thief is very very potent. But a bad thief is a HUGE liability. I like that sort of play. High risk, high reward. So when I see people going “Thf OP nerf plz” they sort of forget that any good player is OP. Good thieves just shine brighter than most…. except maybe good WARs (Or a good mes in PvP). Get rid of their spike, though… and yeah, then there’s really no reason to play ’em anymore in PvE. :/ And a huge increase in situations like this.

Rox’s quiver is… different through? (Better?)

Not buying keys when they have these stupid RNG events. I. Hate. When. They. Do This. I refused to try and get the mini quaggan, the halloween skins, etc. If I cant buy it directly or have a way in-game to buy it, I refuse to purchase gems.

I do, however, tend to purchase gems when these sorts of things aren’t going on to continually support Anet because they still do good.

John Smith.4610:

Gasoline.2570:

Let’s see what the average will be

Statistically inaccurate

Surveying forums leads to massive biases including Sample Bias and Response Bias. In this case there are at least 3 other biases not being accounted for off the top of my head.

I love it when people bring up actual biases. Mmmm delicious statistics/psychology. You’re my favorite dev poster now.

Since yesterday night, SB has no spawned on Crystal Desert either.

I like farming, and I liked farming those events. There was a reason for it. It’s flipping impossible to get moldy bags with any decent speed anymore.

If they made it so champions dropped 0-5 bags or something, I wouldn’t be so annoyed. But this was my favorite farming spot. I’m sick of them nerfing my ability to farm over and over in such a grindy endgame.

The thing is, it only punishes people to do it in a big group, and its better to do it when it’s not scaled up so high with a lot of players.

I was participating in path 2 Sorrow’s Embrace final boss where my dagger storm was IMMEDIATELY interrupted the moment I reflected their projectiles (that would turn into AoE).
(Edit: “interrupted” as in the skill stopped, I did not receive the “interrupted” text on screen from a stun or the like, which I should be protected against anyway.)
I was not stunned, I did not dodge, everything was the way it should be, but it knocked me out of it 3 times in a row within one second of channeling. I DID keep my stability buff the entire duration, however.

This also happens when leveling up (And the /cheer emote? I’m not sure).

This also happens sometimes when I’m farming in Orr, and it was not when I was leveling up. So something is causing this to end prematurely all over the place.

Necromancer’s death shroud fear also is able to knock me out of dagger storm in sPvP for sure, which I should be immune to fear. I don’t think other fears worked on me.

Getting really annoyed, had a few premature deaths and lost team utility when walls were down from this bug, it used to not happen so frequently to me, but it seems like it happens 10-20% of the time now.

Like I said, there’s a courtesy involved. They changed the mechanic of how you can obtain bank and bag slots. If I had known that this change was going to be happening, such as mentioning this change when they talk about upcoming patches, I would have had the foresight to wait until those ‘items’ would go on sale, as they always seem to eventually do.

Otherwise, it’s just nice to see that a sale is upcoming and not immediately upon us. That has been a fairly common occurrence in most games and in stores. In this instance, I would’ve been one who would have been able to save some money. It’s not going to catch everyone, but it gives a little bit larger of a window to have more people catch the sale.

My example for LoL is that they have an announcement in the launcher a few days ahead of time. So your point is moot about it benefiting players who don’t check or log in every day. Besides, I do check every day, so what’s your point? I didn’t benefit.

I actually was rather reluctant and the funny thing was, I didn’t think they’d ever have bank slots on sale because there was no way to get them through the trading post. They implemented an item for it so they could. So that was kinda crappy IMO.

Yes, I’m noticing the monsters in Orr events are bad enough where I don’t see monsters until they die. My “recommended settings” are near-max with my rig, and I even turned it down to best performance… I think it was a little better? It’s hard to tell. Either way, I find it surprising that even the invincible period where they run up isn’t enough time for them to show. :/

While I tend to never believe it when people say this, I actually did buy a bank slot within 24 (at the most 48!) hours before the sale was announced for the same-day.

I’d really appreciate warning next time, even if it was a day or two in advance, a la, say, Skin sales in League of Legends.

I agree, mostly because Crystal Desert has faced IoJ and FA for the past month and one or two odd weeks and there are a few points that we have no been able to take from one map that is preventing about 5 people I know from getting world completion.

For some stupid reason, each week the map is not being randomized because we’re facing the same servers. Great.

So at 2PM CST? (1:30 atm here). 24 hours?

Thanks

Trying to figure it out, don’t see anything listed.

Still farming gifts for the hopes of an unbreakable choir bell.
(600+ and still counting! haha)

I can confirm this happened to my roommate…not that I’m complaining. This thing looks awful. Does this still happen now that there’s only 1 doylak that needs to be saved? He did all 5 and got both achievements. On his first try too that lucky kitten.

Edit: To be clear, he did this when it took all 5 Doylaks to be saved to get the achievement. Is this still bugged with the re-work?

Styxx.8501:

I just don’t get, why things can’t be, say 2500(or how many ever) ugly hats for an unbreakable bell(even maybe make this version account bound). Then still have the unbound version as RNG drop from gifts, but also give 1 ugly hat per gift. Either you get lucky, or well, you get lucky. Is there something I’m missing with a model like this?

Yeah you get a +1 for this. I don’t see why they can’t have this. Or have a gem-store option to outright buy. Because I might have actually bought gems this season if the bells were on the store. But I refuse to buy gems during any event that is super RNG hyped up (Read: The minis and the Mystery Boxes…). Have alternate ways to get items, even if it’s cash-store only. Event items should be FUN to get, even the rare ones. I’d much rather sit and grind gold—>Gems than try and somehow find(?) or buy 7000 gifts for a moderate chance to get the choir bell.

That saying, my roommate/partner totally got the unbreakable choir bell while running through a zone and opening a large chest. -_-. He was all, “Hey, you wanted this right??” and then looked at the trading post. KITTEN!

It’s a holiday vanity item. You shouldn’t punish people without money and people without in-game money alike. If you don’t have either, then there are other free gaming alternatives you can get.

Make it affordable for most people instead of nobody.

One-time items are not an OK thing to RNG the hell out of; holiday items were always readily available to farm and purchase without this sort of nonsense in GW1.

Your arguments aren’t really valid, because I’m talking more about the non-tradeable, Gems-only, RNG-only minipets. There’s no “gameplay” way to get it, nor is there a TP way to get it.

I’m not saying EVERYTHING should be buyable. But everything should be obtainable somehow. Even if the quaggan you can’t buy, but have to craft. As long as we could buy a minipet pack, that wouldn’t be a problem.

I didn’t realize all the fun Christmasy songs that they wove into the background of some of them! I was lucky enough to nab the clocktower MP3 from someone on here, I hope I can get these songs too

Nope. So far people think we’re talking about the giant map boxes that are inconveniently named “mystery” as well, or the normal giant/small/etc boxes that drop.

Nobody in my 450-some guild has seen anything :/

Black lion key:
I’ve had probably 3ish drop for me in the past two months.

It really feels like Anet will take whatever their MOST popular item will be and then turn it into a horrible cash-grab RNG chest.
IE: The Scythe was by far the most sought after skin and was RNG only.
Wintersday they made the lovable zomg quaggan RNG.
I have a feeling this pattern is going to repeat.

I’m not buying gems during any holiday event again until they stop doing this nonsense. Everything should have a price that I can get directly from the gem store.

I think this is a fair/affordable solution that I’d love to hear feedback on:
Offer CHEAPER random chests (with current droprate, maybe?), and more expensive for-sure gem buys. Everybody wins. Make a stack of RNG chests of 5 or 10 the same as 1 direct purchase of something. I think that would be fair. They need to stop RNG’ing the most popular item. It feels really underhanded.

This way, I could trade in my gold for gems to gamble a bit on 5-10 chests and see if I could luck out and get 2-3 minipets for the quaggan. And if I don’t, no big deal and no love lost. But if I want to for-sure get that quaggan, I spend the 20$ outright, or trade the massive amount of gold-to-gems needed. What do you all think?

It really feels like Anet will take whatever their MOST popular item will be and then turn it into a horrible cash-grab RNG chest.

IE: The Scythe was by far the coolest skin (and we all know they knew it) and thus made it RNG only.

Wintersday they made the lovable zomg quaggan RNG.

I have a feeling this pattern is going to repeat.

I’m not buying gems during any holiday event again until they stop doing this nonsense. Everything should have a price that I can get directly from the gem store. Offer CHEAPER random chests, and more expensive for-sure gem buys. Everybody wins. Make a stack of RNG chests of 5 or 10 the same as 1 direct purchase of something. I think that would be fair. They need to stop RNG’ing the most popular item. It feels really underhanded.

Shepe.6952:

I’ve run every dungeon with a backstab spec, currently

There’re bosses where you just can’t go melee cos you’ll die from aoe, sucks, but you can really help your party in other ways, sb is really strong for some fights. Most bosses will down you in 2 hits.

I’ve tried to change my traits to defensive ones, but they arent worth it imo, you wont really notice the change and you will lose like half, if not more, of your dps.

And this is true; When you have a boss like this swap out your utility skills for AoE stealth and educate your party members on how to use it. (For example, if they go down and you cast it make sure they know to stop attacking so you can revive them safely) So you can do some ranged DPS and for that fight be very support-y.

And some of these AoE bosses you can still use Steal—>Cloak and Dagger—>Backstab, weapon swap to shortbow, 3 (the backwards dodge)- 3.. repeat on full initiative, or revive then do it again.

And when they get down to <10%, just spam Dagger#2 or backstab and finish ’em off. even if you get downed just warp away, throw some daggers to rally, or just heal.

I really want to hear about the bug/exploit fixes, or whatever. They need to be better about this. If they fixed something like that I want to know about it.

Single target/melee is incredibly viable. There are often times in dungeons where people kite a group and you gotta burst someone down fast. Or there’s a monster type you need to murder ASAP. As long as you don’t dodge for no reason and can read attacks and see red circles, you can usually melee just fine. The real nice thing about sword is the CC (Daze), but we’re talking pure damage output. I can’t do nearly as high crit damage on backstab with sword as I do with dagger.

You shortbow when there’s a ton of mobs you can hurt at once with cluster or the arrow bounce.

You just can’t willy nilly go “lulz I melee all the time”. That sort of attitude will get you killed real fast in a glass cannon build for thf. And if you’re not good at dodging or judging when to go melee, then do your PUG a favor and don’t build that way.

I personally hate venoms and poison damage, so I spec out for power/vuln/constant crits. Luckily there are barely enough major trait options in power tree to actually not have to do condition damage. I tend to use death blossom only when enemies regen/heal a lot or for the moments where I don’t have enough endurance to dodge.

I still find that PUGs cant handle swamp without a mesmer to get the one that’s farthest away. Easily what always takes my groups the longest. :/

I disagree with NightyNight; Single target damage Dagger is the best (Due to the outright power of crit+backstab) and when I was going main-hand sword it just wasn’t cutting it. For the small AoE, sure, the damage adds up, but I prefer to be alive, out of harms way, and hitting more targets and doing more damage (factoring in multiple targets) with shortbow instead.

While normally I’m fine with the whole rngisrng nonsense people like to vomit out in a canned response (probably the ones who got all the things they wanted, or are just snobs in general), I also agree that the delta between a 2g item and a 300g item is a bit absurdly high for this event.

I like how there’s no patch notes. Real cute.

I actually did make a most of my gear zerker, save for a few crit/vit/power pieces. With the new degen dungeon coming up, I’m going to go for a set of the wurm on top of it to help a little bit while keeping my glass cannon role. Since I do Shortbow till there’s only 1-2 targets left then I come in and finish them off with D/D, this has been working really, really well and I don’t go down unless 2-3 others go down and I get aggro.

But I’m also good at dodging, warping with the Bow, using AoE stealth appropriately, and swapping my healing moves (health per hit with bow, go invis for lots of burning/poison conditions or lots of single point fights), and just general tactics that keep me alive. I’ve always been an opportunist fighter, and I think I’m handling everything well. Traits are 25-30-10-5-0 focusing on dagger damage, vuln, initiative regen, and swapping between 100% crit chance out of stealth and 20% inc damage under 50% health, depending on if it’s a boss I can attack with daggers throughout the fight, or just help finish it off with Heartseeker spam in the last 10% health.

I think people just don’t swap their skills/traits/etc enough by situation. Just use your favorites while you’re learning the bosses/etc and then swap out when it’s necessary.

Although I have NO idea how well this is going to fare in the upper end fractals… :/ The ascended gear I get may be more power/vit/crit or power/vit/toughness…. I’m going to wait and see before saving up all that mystic forge crap. ALl I know is I’m going to go pure anti-agony defensive infusions with my low health pool

So did anybody get the event AFTER 2:30 when new area available? i’m going to be so FLIPPING pissed if that’s the case and I want an official response

Will we not get to participate because its 2:30 and next area is available but event didn’t start?

I still wouldn’t say it’s “easy”… I think they should have the lower level fractals have a bit more time.

Yeah. Happened to me too.

My computer crashed and I couldn’t rejoin at all, I was sent to LA

I still think it’s ridiculous to ask to change the system before we really know anything about the ease of obtaining them, how the upgrades will work, or anything like that.

And to go on record: No I’m not hardcore. I’m against ridiculous gear grinding. I just refuse to ask to change something when we don’t have all the facts.

Having same issue