Guild Wars 2

Guess why so many people register as ‘casual’ with a limited time budget?
Read any recent statistic about Gamers – many of us are part of the working population or even have a family to take care of, thus limited time to grind stuff for hours on end.

I didn’t mind the 400 point wall (much). On the other hand, I am quite happy that I’ll be able to try out the elite specialisations on my alts, too – I have so little time left for gaming that the new requirements make it much easier for me to actually enjoy the content at my own pace.

Kiza.5630:

Majic.4801:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

(Frigging pocket raptors keeping me in combat mode too long….)

The secret to dealing with pocket raptors is…

Deep pockets.

I just love’em.

- Player runs towards them
- “Oh, cute little raptors. Never mind, I can just ignore them”
- Player get’s crippled
- “Hm, kind of annoying.”
- Bleed is stacking, they actually hit like the big ones
- “What the…”
- Player downed
- Player dead

I love those – I just drop basically all my Marks and Wells on them, slip into Death Shroud and DS4 or DS2 them into oblivion (May drop my health to half if I’m lazy)
Say what you want about necros, but we do have decent AoE survivability.
Takes less than a minute.
(There’s a reason I don’t run a melee-single-DPS optimized build.)

While I haven’t seen the new launcher yet, it wouldn’t surprise me – what with Glint’s egg and everything.

Let’s defeat Mordy first though (and then probably wait 2 more years)

o.O …. is this post a joke? Exactly how old are you, and why would you think it’s relevant to your question that you are a girl?
Kids these days rollseyes

You basically want to look pretty and be able to do everything, right? (Why would you want tons os DPS if you really just want to heal people? You can’t excel in both at the same time, you know.)
Have you ever thought of maybe taking the time to scroll through the “Players helping Players” section, where aprox. 9000 people already asked your question?
</annoyed adult mode>

Also, there is no single profession that can focus on healing only – GW2 is built on the idea that you are largely responsible for keeping yourself alive. There are, however, professions which are better at supporting others, such as the elementalist and the guardian (and, apparently, the ranger with the new elite specialisation – but you’d have to be lvl 80 for that).

And suddenly, I am really happy I didn’t get picked – I wouldn’t have been able to participate anyway due to work. So I wish every beta tester heaps of fun

Necromancer, If you prefer light armour. Equip wells and make good use of deathshroud
(I tend to facetank mob-groups on Cursed Shore – usually works like a charm, even is mostly Berzerker armour.)

Well, that was about bloody time – I hated that part when I was doing map completion on my main. Glad others won’t have to suffer like I did

Too bad you don’t want to play with other people for a single instance in a multiplayer game. Have a nice life!

First, figure out what weapons/skills you like to use and are comfortable with. Then, read what the traits in the different trait lines do. Try to choose traits that complement your playstyle
Also, consort the wiki about where to get more pets. Pet hunting is fun and takes you to all kinds of places. You might also like to do you personal story, though its rewards do get kinda pointless when you are way beyond the required level…

They kinda look like british uniforms, don’t they? Is there an related historical date / holiday coming up?

Also, you should keep in mind that the Living Story content is made for max level players who already know their way around the game.
If you just bought the game – take your time, play through your personal story in the base game first (it IS the basis for the following living story content after all), see if you like the gameplay, which profession you’d like to make your main, etc… and then you can decide if you want to pay for S2. Because you’ll still have that opportunity.
You bought a full game – a game the rest of us was playing for 1-2 years before the living story came around. You simply bought it so late that now you’ll have to pay for the additional content the ‘early adopters’ got for free. Any free, additional content that comes out after you bought the game will be free for you as well, so cheer up!

Vayne.8563:

Green Tramp.5163:

Hows build diversity ? I mean , I want to be a Tank , is that possible ?

Nope. you can’t be a tank. You can be tanky, but that’s not the same thing.

In most games, tanks control aggro. There’s no real way to control aggro in this game. There’s no way to guarantee you’ll be the one attacked.

Likewise there are some bosses that no matter how tanky you are, you’re not just going to be able to stand there and take hits.

This game was designed to not have dedicated tanks or healers.

That being said, you can still be more tanky or less tanky depending on your profession and armor choice. My necro is a LOT more tanky than my ele or my mesmer, as is my guardian (who feels fairly boring though).
Do you want to be tanky as in taking heat off of other characters? Then look into something that has a good boon output, like the guardian. If you just want to be able to neglect dodging a bit more without being killed too quickly, you have a variety of choices – I personally prefer my necro for this.

It’s lovely I just wish There was more of a festival around it. And more to do at the festival area.

I liked the old dailies a LOT more. A lot. A lot of the time, there aren’t really any choices I like, and I can’t even get 1 or 2 AP in on a ridiculously short evening.

The individual chests for the dailies? Genious. But the original design philosophy of rewarding players who have very little time for just playing the game normally, wherever they like…I really miss that. Can we have some of that back please?

Nope. There’s WvW for killing players in a PvE environment. Keep your competitive PvP stuff out of my PvE.

I know some people love that. I get it. You already got two game modes for it, so keep it out of my beloved, after work relaxation PvE.

My beloved female necro asura. I don’t care if everyone hates necros, I’ve loved her since day one

I’ll probably walk my asuran mesmer in too though…

(I’ll also probably make a reverant necro – then I’ll have every armor class on the amazing little geniuses. But I can’t really know yet whether I’ll like that one…)

Jumping to the first red row as an Asura is not actually difficult. Having the presents pop at a nigh impossible speed though….meh :/

It really is the bugs. When you dumb out and get detected, then dodge IMMEDIATELY, it sometimes leaves you with no other actions/‘attacks’ than heal and dodge, while the NPC are all on alert mode – but you are already stealthed again, so you can’t interact with anything. SO annoying. Did that to me twice at the same point – luckily, I had a group with me which didn’t bug out…

I didn’t find this one particularly difficult, just a little frustrating after Marjory and Kasmeer disappeared – because I had no idea where those useful rigged minions would come from if there was no Jory around…
Figured it out eventually, after that, it still took a while (because I didn’t always find the minions in time) but wasn’t difficult at all. ood thing Necros are pretty tanky even in zerker gear
(Healing life transfer helps with the minions, as does fear – and killing the wolves quickly. )

Yeah, ask mesmers…there are phantasms on every one of our weapons I think, and they do greatly contribute to our damage >_> I’ve only been to Dry Tops on my Necro though – has anyone tested whether Mind Wrack still deals damage?

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Lasica.5068:

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I’m sorry, but all I’m hearing is “it’s too hard”.

Yes, it is ‘too hard’ – too hard to coordinate the whole map without reading up on where the individual events spawn and when, and getting enough people do go to the right places at the right time – because it is just not intuitive.
I am perfectly fine with events requiring coordination – so long as the game shows you the way to succeed if you just care to look. I adored the Marionette events, which were very easy to coordinate and explain, yet had a hardcap of players required to have a decent chance at succeeding (who had to have some idea of what to do, but could learn that from other players or from reading the boss-info on the bosses). There was no guaranteed win here, yet most people agreed that they were very much doable. Most of all, the majority of coordination required was intuitive.
The Boss Blitz (in part due to the fact that it was already there last year and worked differently then) and the Dry Top ‘events’ are not.

And really, why would every player always work towards gold – maybe they are just following the story, or trying to get the diving achievement, or find the legendary lama, or all of the coins, or enjoy the landscape?

A selection mechanism of some kind which asks you if you just want to hang around or if you want to work towards gold would really be kind of cool. Even better if it’d kick you out if you weren’t participating in any event for a specific length of time (say, 7 Minutes).

It works fine today – just to let you know

I would, except that I already turned off the (gaming) computer, as I’ll probably just go to sleep in the next 10 minutes ^^° (getting married is awesome and all, but it doesn’t leave much time for sleep).

It took me about 10 minutes before I even managed to beat the login servers (several 42 errors), followed by about 3 crashes (error 58). Then I got into lion’s arch – the next dc occurred when I tried getting ported to the cliffs. Once I was there, I got…2 dc’s (after severe lag) when trying to take part in the dolyak race.

Still getting gamebreaking lag and disconnects…

I’ve been playing the extremely ‘unviable’ necro since day one and still enjoy every minute of it (ok, most) because it suits my playstile really well. I’ve also never had any trouble finding groups to do content with, but then I really don’t care for speedruns and the like.
Seriously – just play what feels most comfortable to you.

Just give me cleave on axe or dagger (preferrably axe though, makes more sense with that broad blade) and I’m good…
Torch would be nice though. And let’s never forget the possibility of a scythe

Beldin.5498:

The thing is, that ANet pushes the need for these mats often with events to bring people back in these zones. If you put iron in T6 zones iron will fall maybe also to 50c and for the next event you will suddenly need silver in masses or something else.

quietly shovels more silver onto her hoard, waiting for Xunlai-Ingots

The problem with iron is that you need loads of it for just about everything…

I think that those bots you see may just be players who do like to do events as they pop up – I know I do that regularly.
I will agree though that it is ridiculous to have events which are way more profitable when failed (and the temple events aren’t the only ones!). The optimal solution would IMO not lie in removing events, but in equalizing rewards .

Give us random, tradeable minis, like you did in GW1 – those were always fun, like Überraschungseier (which are forbidden in the US, as they combine chocolate with small-part-toys):
You knew basically what type/quality of stuff you could expect, but you never knew what particular item you’d receive – and there was always a chance for a rare figurine.

kokiman.2364:

Roundabout.1752:

report them

Why?                               

Because that’s how you inform Anet that the person whispering you is a goldseller/hacked account?

Marionette also made it
1. very obvious you had to split and
2. very easy to count how many people you had in each lane (thereby making it much, much easier to split people up properly.
In the pavilion, people (who are not just ‘farming’ areas to get 50 kills in each) will just congregate in the center, then follow the group. The design of the pavilion just doesn’t lend itself to intuitively splitting people up into equal sized groups – combined with the fact that zerging was perfectly fine (and profitable) last year.

roll a necromancer, jump off a cliff, use spectral walk – enjoy
Although I’d agree that a parachute would be neat.

Gosh I hope I get one now XD

…I think people are mostly failing to figure out how to do this properly because most don’t go back to it particularly often, as the loot is abysmal if you don’t get gold – and how would the normal, non forum-stalking player know that the loot gets much better when you play smart and get gold?
(Also because zerging was the way to go last year, so it may just not feel lika a new, ’I have to figure this out#-event to people)

I agree wholeheartedly with the OP and with Nilkemia.
I was really looking forward to getting the runes this time around (somehow managed to forget that the last time around), but they are not there ;_;

And while the boss fights are nice this time, I just don’t see how I could possibly enjoy farming monsters inside an arena which doesn’t even give decent loot…I don’t enjoy farming, period. I certainly wouldn’t do it if I wasn’t a collector of meta achievements, and I am really angry at feeling compelled to do this in my currently very very rare free time (organizing a wedding while working up to 11 hours a day 6 days a week is not fun). The least they could do was to give me decent loot for it >_> I’m not even asking for anything beyond what we get from open world mobs.

If it wasn’t for the zephyrite part, I’d probably just take a break from GW2 for a couple of weeks as it is.

Edit: …and it seems as if I can’t even just do the daily LS stuff to make up for achievements I find boring and stupid. WHY?! o.O I loved this feature!

Axe needs to cleave – and, yes, a blast finisher on #3 would be very nice.

Personally, I find most Cantha skins a lot prettier than that one. Race-specific armors with a Canthan flavour would be amazing though.

How about: They are hard at working prepearing for the launch in China?
Trying to figure out how to solve some of the problems which arose with this patch?
Actually doing the work they are paid to do (which, for most of them, probably doesn’t include posting on the forums)?

I haven’t had a goldseller message for weeks – must have noticed I just reported and blocked them.
Kinda sad, almost – it always fills me with a childish glee that these people were stupid enough to contact me, allowing me to report them

Knighthonor.4061:

End Walker.9324:

Hey Anet,

Liking some of the updates but how do I transmute my stat and runes now? Great I can transmute skins but I am not buying another rune.

example:

I have gloves with power, precision, healing with a superior rune of undead. I decided I wanted to change it to power, vitality, condition damage. I bought the new gloves and went to transmute them so I have the new stats and my old rune, but I can’t. I either do not know how to with this new patch or the team did not consider this. I really hope it’s the first.

I am confused about the complaint. are you trying to change the look of your new item?
or are you trying to get a rune out a red item and put it into something new?

He/She is trying to get a rune from one stat-combo set to another. While undead runes are dirt cheap, other rune sets would seriously hurt your wallet when you decide to change the stat combo of your armor (i.e. buy or craft a new one) …

And the only solution appears to involve the gemshop. Which also hurts your wallet. Had the same problem yesterday, was not amused :/

I love the idea of unlocking your traits in a fashion similar to the original GW1 elite skills.
I am far less enthusiastic about the implementation. I won’t even go into the level appropriate-ness of several trait-unlocks (they are ridiculously over the top in many, many cases) – but requiring large scale group events for unlocking personal character growth is less than ideal, particularly when this requires you to fail specific events. It is bad enough that several ‘retake’ events give you far better/more loot than the respective defend events, but now you need to stand around watching events fail to get your traits! How is this going according to plan?
Also, personal character development should be soloable and far less dependent on arbitrary event timers. It should be something I can do in between other stuff, on my own time, not something requiring 50+ other players (hello karka queen pre-events) and 1h+ playtime (hello dungeons – not everything is as quick as AC and CoF).

American or European server?
I’d be more than willing to help on a EU server, and I even have a mesmer to do it with
(though my necro is the one with 100% map completion)

Coddler’s cove is amazing for training btw, and nothing’s as satisfying as finally getting to the top of Obsidian Sanctum

While I am no warrior player, I’d advise you to take a look at the warrior profession forum

I really loved the idea of being able to unlock traits by playing specific parts of the game, even challenges – but the way it is handled right now is ridiculus. Unlocking traits is something I do for the personal development of my character – binding it to mega-events (or most other content requiring a substantial amount of other players) is hardly satisfying. Yes, you can always pay up for it, but that should be a convenience option for experienced players leveling alts, not the only viable solution for new players.

…why would you skip those scenes if you are interested in knowing what’s going on? :P

The events you are referring to are not the ‘basic story’ of the game, btw (at least personally, I’d say that refers to your personal story). The events that lead to the destruction of LA are called ‘Living Story’. There’s an official video giving you an overview over what happened here…
Long story short: A dragon-maddened villain named Scarlet destroyed LA (by drilling into a leyline running through the city) in order to wake one of the elder dragons.
What happens next will probably be revealed in the next living story update

lakdav.3694:

Turn off all chat. Pretend that the other (now mute) players are just glitchy NPCs with erratic behavior. Report them as bugs. Face the reality that they are not bugs and nothing will be done. Despair.

So much for the massive multiplayer experience.

Unfortunately, turning off all chat is exactly what hurts mega-events which require a minimum of coordination…
So not only are those obsessed with defending their precious champ runs (and whatever else they use as an excuse to abuse other players) ruining the fun for unassuming players, they are hurting everyone’s chances at having a fun and successful experience at the kind of LS content ArenaNet loves to push out.

So report the hell out of them >:]

…why on earth would necromancers want to wear heavy armor, and at a loss of toughness to boot?
If there’s one thing we don’t need, it’s more armor oO (I’d take decent, reliable access to aegis or invuln. any day though)

Ahhh, Obsidian Sanctum…
I had an amazing run there on Saturday – with players of all 3 worlds helping each other out (by showing the way and not killing each other). It was still really long and challenging (bloody frustrating pitch black darkness), but if felt oh so good when we finally reached the top
I wouldn’t want to miss that feeling. Particularly since it was much more gratifying than the loot
(Tip: Bring stability.)

Also, what meta-achievement?

I must also say that the stiff schedule for world-events is rather unforgiving for players who have rather strict time-restrictions due to, you know, work. And family. And stuff.

Before, when you wanted to do a world event, there were always some around – or you could guest to a world where your desired event was active (or about to be active). Now?
Well, tough luck. With dungeons as well…
Particularly when you don’t belong to a mega guild or have connections to one. Isn’t as if guild activities hadn’t been rather punishing for smaller guilds already…can we please have the good old GW1 guild alliances back?

…you knwo why two-handers are called two-handers? Because you need 2 hands to wield 1.
So unless they give us a race with 4 arms, I don’t see us getting dual-wield two-handers (and am pretty happy about it) :P

Also, it’s not as if warriors had any problems in the power department without dual-wielding two-handers…