Guild Wars 2

I got in, got the achieves, and got out in the first 2 days.

There’s nothing there to make me go back. It wasn’t even fun like the marionette or the rescue which kept me playing on even after I finished.

Playing a totally different game until the next update.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Ghostextechnica.3270:

If it really is an issue of ping, then this is really badly designed.

Ping isn’t an issue of design. It’s an issue of where you are in the world, and how good your IP provider is. I know people in Germany who play on NA servers with no issues at all, and the distance from them to the Seattle servers are far greater than any Oceanic countries.

I wasn’t saying Ping was a design issue, I’m saying it’s a design factor.

If you tune an event expecting everyone to have 50 ping then it will be impossible for those in countries where the best possible ping to U.S. servers regardless of ISP is 400+

On the other hand, if you tune an event expecting some people to have 400+ ping, it will be far too easy for people with 50 ping.

Therefore, designing anything that is going to be ping dependent is bad design.

P.S – Germany to the US = 4,882 miles
– New Zealand to the US = 7793 miles

Gah you guys don’t understand at all.

If you give everyone gold or a item worth a lot of gold then inflation will happen (i.e. more people have gold to spend, so more stuff gets bought – all prices go UP). You don’t want that!

If you give everyone legendary items, then it’s unfair on people who start GW2 in a month’s time as they won’t be able to get it. Remember that GW2 is designed so that skill > gear and they don’t want people in unobtainable gear.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I was just thinking about Peter Griffin clutching his knee, going “ssssstttt ahhhhhhh” for 45 seconds.

Hahahaa brilliant!!

Yeah I thought that whole scene was a little strange.

Especially given there are injuries and emotion and our character just kinda stands there and listens to everyone before running off.

Are you Oceanic?

Pretty sure our ping makes us a second or so too slow to be able to do it.

People from the states (with 600% better ping) are having a hard enough time anyway!

I’ve tried this a million times using Dulfy’s technique.

Since I’m an Oceanic player my ping is something like 6 times higher than people in the U.S. and I’m wondering if it’s close to impossible for us?

People in the states seem to be having a hard enough time even with a extra second or so up their sleeve.

Honestly, I can start stomping, then dodge, then start stomping again and I always get interrupted before I can finish.

If it really is an issue of ping, then this is really badly designed.

Anet said in January that something “better than” an expansion was coming this year.

https://twitter.com/PersistentWorld/status/418816619825999872

I hope they didn’t mean this latest update. I mean – the living story has been awesome recently, however, of course an expansion would be more exciting given the amount of content that typically comes with one.

The OP already made a similar thread 20 days ago and got majorly discredited.

And now they are trying again?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/escape/So-now-everyone-thinks-its-Mordremoth/first#post3632244

Someone tell Traherne (Necro) that he shouldn’t be using a Great Sword then.

The Necro is supposed to be the master of attrition and king of conditions.

Unfortunately the way the game is designed means that siphons and conditions (the Cap!) and Control are horrifically bad in PvE.

Which forces Necros to leave half their skills and talents alone – and make the best of what else they have to be some kind of muddled melee/mid-range caster.

It’s pretty weird that the Necro PvE meta is dropping wells and autoattacking with a dagger.

I kind of see it more like a “Ugh – another person just standing around” facepalm

I actually like that the game has a level of complexity that requires everyone to get engaged and investigate how best to do things.

As a mature gamer I way prefer this over some boring easy-mode hand holding.

I’m kind of hoping Anet stick with the true spirit of GW2 and make the end of the story all about trolling the playerbase by having someone else defeat Scarlet and take all the credit.

Or even better, have Traherne come in and take the credit, and then Destiny’s edge swoop in and take his credit, and then finish it with Destiny’s Edge 2.0 come in at the last minute and trump both of them.

Metallus.7690:

Running 1600×900 on medium settings with Nvidia GeForce GT 635M with NO PROBLEMS at all outside of LA event.

Problems arise 3-4 mins after having entered LA; from there my fps just get lower and lower, eventually reaching 15 fps and the game becomes horrible.

The 635M is based on technology from 2010 – and I believe the 635M was the entry level card in the 6XX series. Only the 670M, 675M and 680M were decent for gaming.

If you have a look at this list – you’ll see there are 153 more powerful laptop/notebook graphics cards out right now.

You’ll also see that the site suggests you may be able to play games on “low” settings.

Maybe set your graphics to the lowest possible and you might be okay.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

^ It won’t be power/DS builds.

I use that and Close to Death in the same tier is significantly better than Dhuumfire for us.

+20% damage to enemies under 50% health VS a single condition with no condi gear.

It’s not a dps test, those events can be finished by 4 people.

It’s that the event scales up with the number of people in the immediate area – and becomes a lot harder.

The Zerg is what’s failing you – you need to ask people to go away. My server always shoo’s people away from events if there’s 10 people already there.

Rofl in DS Necros have no access to utilities (meaning no heals/stun breaks / mobility / anything).

And to be honest, any class at all can afk auto-attack you down in 16 seconds if you stand there and don’t dodge or CC or heal or apparently do ANYTHING at all.

DarcShriek.5829:

Make sure you have the ingredients that are only offered temporarily, that would be the blue prints, the blades and the gift of blades. Once you have these, you can create the item at your convenience.

Awesome will do.

Kal Spiro.9745:

If you’re going from 0-500 you’re better off doing leatherworking. It’s much cheaper.

Yeah I did see that. However my main is a Necro – so I was thinking i’ll get more use out of tailoring being at 500 in future.

It’s so unfair how the armour that your class wears makes hundreds of gold worth of a difference in the mats needed.

I’ve actually got all the dragonite, empyreal and bloodstone from champs and dungeon runs.

It’s really just a case of having the gold to get crafting from 0-500 and then buying/making the ascended mats like the 15 Bolts of Damask etc.

I suspect it’ll be something like 300 gold – which will take a while!

I suspect the large download it would require is the suspect.

It would be cool if the updater asked beforehand

“Do you want to include Hi-Res Cinematics? WARNING will increase the size of the update significantly”

I would pick “Yes”

zaybug.9284:

I hope not as well but do recall some Halloween recipes in the MF being deactivated than permanently changed when they were reintroduced.

^ Yeah that’s what I was thinking of (and worrying about!).

So I managed to craft my way to the exotic version of the spinal blades, but need to take it that one step further to get the Tempered ones.

I have all of the event items I need, but I’m very low on gold and need to save up hundreds before I can get my crafting to 500 and afford the expensive non-event items needed.

Do I need to race to somehow find the gold within the next few weeks?

Or will the recipe work forever?

Yes! I get to post this vid.

An amazing song sampling Ogden and his line.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

This issue exists in more than just the game. However, this only helps to highlight the growing issue with society, not just gamers.

I’m not sure, I always stop to rez people in game, but I never bother to in real life.

I think Guild Wars 2 is teaching me to be good!

Backward Sass.6791:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gxrk7MWJk

OMG I can’t get this out of my head!

Brilliant!

Hahaha whaaat.

Totally agree with this thread. The halo is sweet but the horns are ridiculous.

If the horns came out of our actual heads that would be sweet – but I imagine that would cause all sorts of clipping issues.

lol – maybe it really just needs a tooltip fix to be:

Potion of being slayed by Scarlet’s armies

Thanks Tasia! I didn’t get it right (I guessed Minstrel and Frostfang) but it was fun!

Choose any time in the world and someone, somewhere will be unhappy.

I’m in Oceania (New Zealand / Australia) and am just starting work for the morning.

I have to wait out the whole working day before playing tonight. But that’s fine as I know Anet can’t make everyone everywhere happy.

I’m also looking out for an Aetherblade pirate named “Cuervo Jones”.

Thanks Dulfy! Was just wondering this morning if there was anything I should do before Escape from LA.

Perfect!

Frostfang and Minstrel

Out of those two? Focus.

Out of Dagger/Focus AND Warhorn?

Warhorn. (Pop locust as you are running in and passively add damage during your burst).

Really hoping to see at least one reference in-game!

Fingers crossed!

Signed – both bugs happen to me frequently and it’s the most annoying thing about playing a Necro.

They both kill me in PvP all the time.

Dagger 3 is the key to getting people to stay in wells.

Especially little timmy.

What we are reporting here is entirely unrelated to lag.

Sure you can’t use skills properly when you are lagging because.. well you’re lagging.

This thread is to do with the situation when your connection is rock solid and everything is working fine but none of your skills work at all.

This largely appears to happen when either two people pick up a weapon or item at the same time as someone else (often when Aoe looting in a Zerg) or you are moving and try to pick up an item just as you leave the pick up range.

Warrior banners are usually the prime suspect for this.

I think it’s because “evacuate in an orderly fashion from LA with plenty of time to spare” isn’t as cool a title as “escape from LA”

Lol people have been discussing this constantly for over a year.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/Origin-of-The-Pale-Tree#content
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/lore/Slyvari-a-dragon-minion#content
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/tower/Why-I-think-Mordremoth-is-next

Yeah seriously when we’ve been saying SoV is completely useless, it really is. We all did the maths when it first came out and every other Necro heal skill is significantly better.

There are countless threads on this.

Khisanth.2948:

I guess staff on necro has been useless since launch?

For bosses? Yes absolutely.

However the staff is an AoE support weapon so noone really cares that much.

Signet of Vampirism on the other hand is a heal skill. If you brought it into the fight and can’t get out of combat to switch to another one when you realise you can’t heal at all… well gg.

I wish there was a good looking Warhorn for Necros.

There’s seriously like nothing aside from the Legendary.

If anyone cares about SoV being bugged in not working against most key bosses I’ve posted in the Bug forum here

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Signet-of-Vampirism-Bugged-in-latest-patch/first#post3630002

I guess noone really cares because noone uses this skill.

However, if it’s ever buffed to be useful, the fact it doesn’t work on most bosses is going to be problematic!

^ hahah

And maybe in the next round of text conversations instead of saying “Go on” over and over we can say “Sad story. You got a smoke?”

Hope an eyepatch is one of the drops in this release!

I do realise that they are coded that way, but when the devs changed Vamp Sig so they can’t smash down WvW gates faster than intended (a legit concern) do you think they also intended that if a Necro takes this heal into a fight against most of the bosses in the game, that they will die because they can’t heal?

How many Necros will die to this!

Err DS is in no way the best. It’s a short period (that can be bursted down even sooner) of being locked out of all healing/mobility etc skills.

Other classes “OS” buttons can make them completely invincible AND allow them to heal, use mobility skills to escape, or use any/all of their normal dps skills.

It’s not even in same league.

Edit: However, it’s definitely the coolest. And despite our classes failings I also love Necro