Guild Wars 2

The link to account.arena.net seems to be down for a while now , any one having same problem ?

Danikat.8537:

Wait until the beta test at the weekend and we’ll find out.

The beta is open to everyone who has GW2, so even if you haven’t pre-purchased PoF you’ll get to try it.

Thanks, when is this public beta starts ?

Will be the new expansion like HoT where you forced to team up with like 60 people to complete a map ?
Or will be more like in vanilla , with public events ?
Thank you in advance

Firelysm.8190:

I’ve created this chartflow for anet.
This could help making our gaming experience TONS times better.
Imgur link to the chart.

please some one give to this guy a nobel price

The rewarding system for raids in GW2 is a total joke.

Firelysm.8190:

15 characters?!
This could make gaming experience a lot better since ALL maps would be more then 49% populated!

Positive side:

• all maps would have +49% population!
• all maps would store progress
• all low populated maps would merge.
• no empty maps

Negative side:

• Worst case scenario in theory would be merging 8 times in first 2 minutes, but that would never happen due to 2 min head start. At most we would have 2 mergins of maps due to population is never getting lower then 10%.
  1+=1+=2+=3+=5+=8+=13+=21+=34+=55%

Finally some one that really understood the map problem in HoT and come out with a solution.

I throw you all my money and cookies

phys.7689:

Exotrax.4207:

phys.7689:

Exotrax.4207:

So …..few weeks ago my guild started to do raids , we managed to kill VG quite few times and I managed to collect enough Magnetite Shard to get a new piece of ascended armor…..yesssss…..hype.

Note that I already have few ascended piece ( 4stats).

So I decided to grab shoulders and EXPECTING to be able choose a piece with 4 stats.

And this was not the case , in fact you just get ascended gear with 3 stats only that you supposed already to wear for the raid.

….so what’s the point on doing raids if as reward you receive armor that you already have.

Please tell me that I’m doing something wrong

mystic forge it to get the stats you want.
ascended piece+ teir 6 insgnia or inscription you want

So I can get 4 stats (like viper) instead 3 doing this ?

yea, can get any stat that has an exotic inscription/insignia as far as i know.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge

scroll down to
Ascended equipment prefix change

Thank you …..I know I was missing sumnt :P

Vivien.6149:

Heart of Thorns is NOTHING BUT A GRIND.

You can’t NOT GRIND if you want to progress in the maps. You have to MAX OUT THE GLIDER to use the edy currents in Tangled Depths! Unbelievable. Took a perfectly good game and turned it into a grinder….thanks a lot…and what sucks even worse is that you end up in Verdant Brink with everyone else who has to grind to progress because those are the fastest missions….thanks again.

You are wrong here……..grind is when you kill same npc over and over to obtain xps……and I will be happy if this was the case.

HoT required the following :
1) Constantly check the HoT map timer to see when the meta starts….if meta already started since an hour ….you have to wait another hour to start a new one.
2) Find or begging other players to taxi you in a more populated map.

This seems an easy two step when you play 8-9 hours a day , but for these that have a job, come back home and instead to jump in the game and have fun , you need to spend time in order find other people and complete a meta that is not even so rewarding.

If you need mastery point in HoT there’s a little trick ….find and open strongboxes…..you will get all the masteries you need in no time , the xps aren’t hard to get …..just do VB and AB …..at the moment are the easiest one.

Here the link of all the strongboxes in VB
http://dulfy.net/2015/10/30/gw2-verdant-brinks-mastery-insights-and-strongboxes-guide/

Dragondook.3912:

Can someone explain why Anet decided to quadruple the amount of materials needed to craft a single piece of ascended armor? This completely boggles my mind. Three damask patches? Wow. I really hope i’m not some crazy fringe opinion here, this is totally insane.
It’s not market fluctuations either, people. Damask, Deldrimor, and Elonian Leather are the same price, lower even, it just takes 4+ times more to do it.

The majority of GW2 players (me included) use the TP to buy asc mats , just buy 2000 gems and convert it in gold.

Yes it’s a P2W model …..but is better than have 3th party site selling you gold and get banned.

phys.7689:

Exotrax.4207:

So …..few weeks ago my guild started to do raids , we managed to kill VG quite few times and I managed to collect enough Magnetite Shard to get a new piece of ascended armor…..yesssss…..hype.

Note that I already have few ascended piece ( 4stats).

So I decided to grab shoulders and EXPECTING to be able choose a piece with 4 stats.

And this was not the case , in fact you just get ascended gear with 3 stats only that you supposed already to wear for the raid.

….so what’s the point on doing raids if as reward you receive armor that you already have.

Please tell me that I’m doing something wrong

mystic forge it to get the stats you want.
ascended piece+ teir 6 insgnia or inscription you want

So I can get 4 stats (like viper) instead 3 doing this ?

Roul.3205:

Exotrax.4207:

NikeEU.7690:

Caveat Emptor!

15 characters

?

google it xd

Got it ….tnx

NikeEU.7690:

Caveat Emptor!

15 characters

?

Shirk.6421:

Sorry, but I don’t understand why so many people say HoT is so “hard” and “challenging”.

Is dodging right so hard? Is getting tankier gear if you can’t so hard? Is playing with others if you can’t do that so hard? There are always people there.

Im pretty much disappointed about the mob’s AI. Stand on an elevation and Bristlebacks don’t hit, stand on an elevation or dodge from a wall and stoneheads will stun themselfes. Mordrem snipers obvious attacks are just the easiest to dodge attacks in the entire game, same for the hammer guys. Pocket raptors… AoE and they die instantly. Just run out of the smokescales AoE.

I got VB and AB to 100% w/o getting real help from others, just some meta events, solo’ed almost every Champ on those 2 maps (This vampire thingy sucked, tho pun intended)

Overall HoT just doesn’t feel fast paced, well harder than the normal open world but not the challenge everyone cries about.

Other opinions from people that think it really isn’t that hard?

On my opinion the problem is not the fact that is hard , but the fact that to complete a meta event you need :
1) watch an HoT map timer all time
2) if you come back home from work and you want do a meta event in HoT and the meta already started ….you need to wait the remaining time to join a new one.
3) If you are on time for the meta , you have to be luck enough to join a full map , if not…..wait another two hours
4) I depends in 100+ players to succeed in a meta.
5)I need to bagging all time around to taxi me in a full map
6) you finally manage to complete an event and in return what you get …..garbage rewards.

I did what I had to do in HoT and now I NEVER come back to that …..this is supposed to be a video game …….that you log in and you play ……not logging in and spend most of your time to look for people or trying to get into a full map.

So I’m only playing GW2 in old Tyria and do other things, and I’m surprised in a good way that even if I don’t play the expansion …..that is supposed to be the endgame ….I can still enjoying very much the game.

So …..few weeks ago my guild started to do raids , we managed to kill VG quite few times and I managed to collect enough Magnetite Shard to get a new piece of ascended armor…..yesssss…..hype.

Note that I already have few ascended piece ( 4stats).

So I decided to grab shoulders and EXPECTING to be able choose a piece with 4 stats.

And this was not the case , in fact you just get ascended gear with 3 stats only that you supposed already to wear for the raid.

….so what’s the point on doing raids if as reward you receive armor that you already have.

Please tell me that I’m doing something wrong

Chip Skylark.2367:

Everyone keeps telling me that buying legendaries off the trading post is cheaper/better than crafting them via masteries. Is this true?

Yes ….remember that GW2 have a nice P2W system.
Just buy gold with gems and get your Legendary in no time ….by the way …..there’s nothing challenging on collecting 1000 piece of that , 500 of this and so on.

So if you don’t have time to waste on running around collecting mats …..trading post is the way to go

Gaile Gray.6029:

If you see something, say something. We actively read the official forums and reddit posts. My QA partner Evan Zynda is all over things on reddit. We want to know what’s wrong with our content, so please let us know.

I see that the new content in HoT are to much time gate , the need of full map to complete the meta which involve time to organize the map and taxi people in , in short I quit play HoT because I don’t need another job when I come home , I miss the fluidity of events in the old Tyria and that’s what keep me playing GW2 …..not HoT but the old Tyria. The HoT events are nice but gets very boring after you played it for a month ……I can leave with that , but only thinking that I have to watch the clock constantly to see when the meta starts , taxi people in to get full map , organize groups …..I prefer go do other things.

Raid rewards : do you realize that raids have no rewards ?
Most of players go to raid already with ascended armor/weapon , than you collect 150tokes to buy a new piece of ascended gear ( with 4 stats ) to realize that the gear you get is the one you already have and have only 3 stats…..so what’s the point to do raids if you receive as reward items that you already have ?

Please change the meta events in HoT so every one can enjoy it without frustrations that cause toxicity between players …something more fluid without depending to much on other players.

Thank you in advance.

P.S Forgot to mention one very important issue : Invite to join more populated map.
THIS FEATURE DON’T WORK AT ALL , in fact I ALWAYS GET MOVED TO EMTPY MAP INSTEAD …so I stop using it……this should be fix ASAP.

Don’t expect sales until summer 2016

I played HoT since release ….did what I had to do and now I’m happy cuz I can go bk to play in old Tyria if I’m not doing raid and never come back to that time-gate-frustration that HoT offers.

There’s still lots of things to do in old Tyria……fractals rewards now are finally ….rewarding …..so don’t give up …..just move on different path.

I vote with no hesitation old Tyria ….since I’m done with HoT ….I’m having a great time (as always) in old Tyria.

What’s your vote ?

Just wait after Xmas holiday ….when will be fixed

HoT has increased the toxicity quite a bit.

Most of casual players work during the day.

They come back home …log on GW2 to do a meta event and they realized they need to wait another hour because the meta already started.

They get the message to move on a more populated map and they get in an MORE EMPTY ONE !!!! ( Devs please stop smoking crack and fix this).

When they finally get into a meta , not every one still knowhow it works, so they make mistakes and they received rants from comms.

Most people don’t have full asc set but maybe missing few pieces ….no sorry you can’t raid because you miss 0.9% dmg increase.

HoT maps are quite complicated and things sometime are very hard to find , and to progress you MUST work with other people ….all these things make the game not anymore relaxing and fun like in old Tyria and bring some toxicity around.

I personally a part from raid …..don’t play anymore HoT , not because I don’t like it …..but because is a time gate and you depends from other players to succeed, it miss the event fluidity old Tyria have.

And more frustrating is when you start working on a pre-meta with not many players ……and you get the invitation to move in a more populated map …….oh my …..that’s great …..problem is ……IT NEVER WORK kitten !!!!!! ……and I always get moved to a totally empty map !!!!

Gold sellers in GW2 are dead …….Anet track the e-mails and ban people when they see they received a big amount of gold.

Have no idea how is possible you received these messages ><

Did you press Ctrl while looking around for nodes ?

This could help

I had lots of crashing issues with the 32Bit client …..switched to 64bit …..NEVER HAD A CRASH again

Very well written post OP.

On my opinion HoT overall is a good expansion (maybe not worth 50$).

The main problem is that is a way to different from the original GW2 and tend to punish solo players.

HoT lost the lvling fluidity that GW2 had …..the freedom of doing what you want without depending of 100 people to finish a meta …….checking constantly your clock to see when a meta starts…..don’t get me wrong ….I quite like HoT …..but …..when I have to collect some items in old Tyria and then come back to HoT …..I feel stressed ……I need to check at what time the meta starts……ask for Taxi ……trying to organize a map and than hoping to succeed the meta…..it’s more like a job than a fun time playing a game.

I would rather have the 1st 3 maps VB, AB , TD with small/medium events that every one can do without organizing 100 people and leave the SD and final mega event.

Im doing the Dark Harvest collection and now I have to grind for probably a week to get 8 mastery doing meta ……..which I wont complain if the meta where smaller but still hard …but thinking of just HOPING that there will be enough people to do the meta and if not ….waiting another 2 hours for the next ……hmm ….it’s making me sad.

Again…..HoT is a good expansion but takes away the freedom,relaxing but still challenging gameplay of the old Tyria .

I Just hope I can finish my collection soon so I can come back to the old Tyria and do other things there.

PVE – past,present,future…

Past : best MMO experience I had since WoW vanilla.

Present : I need to schedule my time in order to complete meta , I depend on other 50 to 100 players in order to succeed a meta ……quite mediocre experience

Future : Black Desert online ? :P

Aomine.5012:

Exotrax.4207:

CIndeR.3479:

What I am looking for is what YOU think is the most optimal class for solo’ing HoT content in terms of survivability without sacrificing too much DPS, also including the build type and type of gear you would use for that class would be very helpful as well.

Please note I am NOT asking for “THE BEST CLASS EVAR!” as there isn’t one. I know this is purely opinion and that’s exactly what I am looking for: YOUR opinion. So in before “The best class is the one you like playing”. I am well aware of that.

I guess you are a new player…….welcome.

FORGET TO SOLO HoT , HoT is meant to be played in groups , all meta events require at least 50 to 100 people and two hours of non stop time to be completed.

If you don’t care about meta and try to play solo for map completion…..also forget about……you will need grps for most of HeroPoints and some require meta event completed to access it.

If you just want to explore the maps and don’t care about meta events and map completion……I would advice Reaper (Necromancer)

good luck

Disagree with this post entirely.

Other than some of the few group events and Champs, I can deal with most events HoT throws at me on many classes solo, or maximum duo if the mechanic is abit more annoying.

Awesome……didn’t know that you can solo meta events in HoT ……fascinating ^^

CIndeR.3479:

What I am looking for is what YOU think is the most optimal class for solo’ing HoT content in terms of survivability without sacrificing too much DPS, also including the build type and type of gear you would use for that class would be very helpful as well.

Please note I am NOT asking for “THE BEST CLASS EVAR!” as there isn’t one. I know this is purely opinion and that’s exactly what I am looking for: YOUR opinion. So in before “The best class is the one you like playing”. I am well aware of that.

I guess you are a new player…….welcome.

FORGET TO SOLO HoT , HoT is meant to be played in groups , all meta events require at least 50 to 100 people and two hours of non stop time to be completed.

If you don’t care about meta and try to play solo for map completion…..also forget about……you will need grps for most of HeroPoints and some require meta event completed to access it.

If you just want to explore the maps and don’t care about meta events and map completion……I would advice Reaper (Necromancer)

good luck

VB and AB are probably the most loved map because the meta are easier to organize and more fluid , also these two maps are a bit easier to navigate.

I honestly don’t even bother to the other two maps TD and DS , TD on my opinion has been designed by a crack head with shouting monkeys on his brain …really !!!
DS is nice to do the event few times ….main problem there …..even if I get there when the map starts ……it’s now very hard to have full map and complete the event.

HoT on my opinion fails in have the nice meta-events fluidity that GW2 original offers , now became like a job …..YOU MUST schedule your time in order to succeed in meta events like TD and DS , most of the time YOU DEPENDING on other 100 players in order to progress the game , GW2 lost the freedom that had in vanilla , you could lvl up in many ways and don’t care to constantly watch the clock so you wont miss an event.

They should’ve build HoT in different way, leave hearts in VB , AB and TD so you can still lvling solo if you like , make the meta events in VB , AB and TD shorter and less people needed , leave DS as it is.

HoT is not a bad expansion , it’s just not designed for every one , and this is not gw2 manifesto.

Remember when Colin Johanson said in this video at 1:24 ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1JUwPqzQY&feature=youtu.be&t=1m22s

WE JUST DON’T WANT PLAYERS IN GW2 TO GRIND …..yup HoT it’s all about having fun no frustrations , freedom of gameplay , and an expansion for casual and hardcore players , and most of all…..no grind is required……Colin…..stop trolling us lol .

Btw…..im still having a blast with this game …….I just don’t play anymore HoT and keep enjoying vanilla

Give it a full try to condi Reaper , great for soloing and solid for groups

I have no problem to fly in the old Tyria ……I just use my new elite spec : farting boosters ^^

….they work very well and are easy to craft !!!

GW2 forum : a place where players suggested what they don’t like in the game and trying to gives new ideas to the dev….but apparently no one answer

Reddit : Anet fan boys forum , where everything the dev says …..is good …..because even if they made mistakes there they will always find love.

in fact lately I play more in GW2 orig than HoT

You don’t need HoT , it’s like a completely different game on my opinion.

My advice is……get GW2 the old Tyria for me is still superior than HoT and believe me …..you will enjoy the game even without HoT.

When you will get maybe bored of the old Tyria …..maybe think about HoT.

Good luck

Thanks for sharing your well written thoughts about MMOs and Anet.

I started play games with a C64 and saw how they evolved from the 80s till now.

At these days big company like EA , Ubisoft , NCsoft , Anet and so on are making games only to create a vacuum that suck your money , I see rarely in these days a company that makes a game with the goal of having players enjoy the game and play it for a long time………..NO

Now they make games with one goal …….how we can suck money to users.

I mean …..look what EA did with the new StarWars Battlefront …..its all about season pass and DLC , no deep gameplay like the old BF games ….a total joke.

Sad but true ………gaming at these days …..it’s all about money ……and yes ……I had to spend money in GW2 gem store buying gold for gems to be able craft and ascended weapon in stead to go around like a zombie for a month gathering mats.

So yes I did Pay to Win.

ugrakarma.9416:

i have full ascedend, but dont like overzealous game modes, so im avoiding raids til someday i see on LFG something like “all welcome”.

well said !!!

I managed to login after patch was downloaded…..I exit the game by mistake and now same ….keeps retrying ><

I tried to log without ReshadeUnlocker and worked fine …..when I started using it ….got the error message.

Now I can’t even log without using ReshadeUnlocker …..I guess sumnt wrong with Anet servers

Can’t loging anymore after new build.

Anyone having same problem ?

Hello ,

I’m quite interested in joining you Guild , could you please contact me after 17:00 UTC so I can ask few questions ?

Thank you in advance.

IGN : Necromicro

Edit : Just saw the guild video and …..I’m getting quite excited to join

are you guys working on raids to ?

Eirdyne….great post …..wondering if you are aware of Black Desert online …..sandbox mmo……open world with not a single loading screen , endgame is more based on trading , pvp , GvG , asweome housing/gathering system where you can have AI gather crafting materials if you have nodes that connect to a mine (let’s say).

I’m very curious about this game ……and hopefully will succeed so I can move on something new and refreshing.

I like GW2 , but the new meta events and the new way of leveling in HoT are pushing me back to the old Tyria , if I want to participate to a meta event in HoT , I need to check at what time it starts , been enough luck that enough players are in the map and sometime I spent more than an hour to go on with a meta to realize that map have not enough players to complete the meta.

Play a video game should be a way to relax , have fun and do freely what you want…..to play HoT …I have to schedule my time , organize the groups , taxi people in , and most of the time spend an hour or more to complete the meta …..and because not enough people in the map ….event fails.

Meta in HoT on my opinion needs to be shorter , less people required to complete and made it more fluid for new people , let them know where to go and what to do.

Pandaman.4758:

warbignime.4610:

If you crash at DS just use 64 bit client.

Sadly the 64 bit client doesn’t help everyone as people are still reporting crashes when they use it. It’s a memory usage problem, all the 64 bit client does is delay crashing by giving the game access to more memory to flounder in, so it’s more a band-aid than an actual solution.

That’s not true ….I had lots of crashing issue with the 32bit client and since I switch to the 64bit ….NEVER had a crash again.

Funny part is that I was troubleshooting with an Anet GM , he made me send many report trying disabling Avirus and other application , after 4 days I realizing I was going no where , start read forum and found out the solution on my own lol

I don’t know if it’s a bug ….but every time I’m doing an event and get the invite to move in a more populated map…..instead I get moved to an empty map…..like just now….I was in AB doing the meta ….at the challenges part got the invite to move on a MORE populated map ….and ended up to moved again on a empty map where not even a pillar was activated.

Any one having same problem ?

davishwulf.9641:

As a veteran fighter who supposedly fought his way into a somewhat prestige level 80 (whatever that means in real-life-game world) not being able to jump on a mushroom that automatically transports you to a higher platform is like a 30 year old not being able to enter an elevator before reading a 100 page book manual.

looool….that made me laugh

that’s weird ….I got many recipes from the chests in VB ….maybe u need to improve your MF and not only open the grand chests……..open every one.

Normally I never pre-purchase a game or an xpac , I always wait to see some reviews and what the game offer.

I don’t really like the direction Anet took with this expansion, they only cared to make content for hardcore players , almost removing dungeons instead adding few new with raids….I’m afraid that to play next expansion you will need to play 16 hour a day , there will be only raids that needs full legendary set to be played , meta events that needs 4 hours to complete with 3426 players , to gain 1 level you will need 4mill xps , mastery/hp points will not shown on map anymore …..find it on your own , old Tirya with be completely destroyed and not accessible anymore because was only for casual/noob players , price of next xpac will be 80e , there will be only 2 new maps ……but with 7 layers each , will be added 2 new classes ….tank and healer so find party will be much easier.

Probably while GW2 new xpac will be out , I will still playing Black Desert Online

Still….GW2 vanilla has been one of the best game I ever played !!

Daralii.8940:

Vayne.8563:

You don’t just whip up a few dungeons. Creating a dungeon is a major undertaking. Anet is focusing on fractals, not dungeons for the future five man content. They said so. I wouldn’t expect new dungeons.

Too bad they’ve only made one original fractal since they were first added in November 2012.

exactly and the fractals atm aren’t enough rewarding and ….for raid is almost mandatory ascended gear

I feel Anet in this expansion just cared about the hard-core players that plays 8 hour a day since launch , so yes for them is easy to get gear for raids…they already have it , but what about new/casual/returned player ….why don’t make something for them ….in this case new dungeons or at least don’t nerf the already existing ones .

Hard core players normally plays 8 hour a day because they don’t have a job and low on money, casuals are most using the gem store …..but from what I see …..they’re leaving the game.

Amurond.4590:

Haha tell him he’s dreamin’.

I’m not dreaming….just asking a question…..