Guild Wars 2

Thanks everyone for taking the time to respond. One other question I have is scribe crafting. My new guild has a terrific guild hall and I would like to contribute. Was wondering if there is any profit in doing that as well.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Crafting is just as viable as it always was. Many people make good money from it, although the easiest is to refine and sell time-gated ascended mats.

There’s no “best one”, because it varies with the market. Check out gw2profits.com — it has a widget that will figure out the most profitable things to craft with any ingredients you select. Even slicker, if you provide your secure API key (instructions on the site), it will use your material storage to determine the most profitable things you can make.

Thanks!

I am back to GW2 after a 2-year break. I am wondering if crafting is viable now for gold making as it wasn’t that great a few years ago. With that said, if there are viable crafts, may you suggest the best ones currently? Thanks.

Shostie.6435:

A Russian (presumably) is complaining that an American company didn’t make a Russian translation of an American game? If the Russian language was relevant, they would have made it. Until Russian becomes relevant, you’re free to start your own gaming company and refuse to make English translations out of spite.

Agreed; and make an “epic” financial flop since there will be zero market of paying customers.

Even if successful it will be an epic fail. I agree. Utilize resources to give the Windows users (you know the overwhelming majority) and current languages customers new instanced content.

We failed on Teq last night, but the reality is that in a few weeks everyone is going to figure out what to do. Is it frustrating? Yes, for now.

However, OP, seriously, AC? I think they dumbed them down further or our increase in damage is just silly there. I ran AC 1,2 3 last night with a total PUG and only one pure zerker. We steam rolled over all instances faster than I ever remember or even faster than my guild can do. We just all knew what to do (and I am really pretty casual TBH).

You have to learn the dungeons. It’s really not that hard. Else, don’t do them. Anet is basically turning their heads on them anyway, so you and other will prolly get your anyway. It doesn’t look there will be any new instanced content.

BTW, you guys are not the minority. Anet knows who their audience is and it is NOT the hard core MMOer.

Xdmatt.3958:

If you happen to be downleveled while looking at your stats, then you are observing the New and Improved Super-Downscaling. Allegedly, 66% less DPS while downleveled. Enjoy!

I am in LA?

Just logged into after a few day and redid my guardian traits. I am prolly doing something wrong, but my crit is now horribad due to removing of crit bonus of traits. Are the trait re-arrangement supposed to make up for the serious nerf to crit?

What disappoints me is the 1st major expac does not yet seem “meaty”. I would pay $100 if they gave us more dungeons and legitimate raids that allowed at least 10 players in one instance. The guild halls thing looks very promising, but there doesn’t seem like there will be anything else real substantial, content wise.

I am used to WoW expacs, while not all fantastic, they all do provide tremendous amount of content ~ every 2 years.

I am on Sorrow’s Furnace and looking to get back into WvWvW. Are there any active WvWvW SF guilds out there I can join?

Anyone else experiencing extra long loading times this week? I have kitten and it’s 3 times longer than it was last week.

But, to your point, those aren’t raids. They are good world boss fights; much better than WoW WBs, but are not raids.

This has prolly been discussed for awhile, but I am back to the game now after being gone for almost 2 years. During this lapse I played quite a bit of other MMOs. Coming back to GW2 I can say it’s tied with WoW as my favorite MMO if not my outright favorite.

Like many of you I don’t want GW2 to be like WoW; except for one thing that I believe WoW does exceptionally well, and that is raids.

Although PUG-oriented Raids are a 50/50 shot at being decent, a friendly guild-oriented one would be amazing (as they are in WoW). With the exceptional art team at arena.net, they could design an amazing raid. Just releasing a short 10 man raid proof-of-concept would prove that the community would embrace and enjoy a new gaming option. The fact that Fractals are successful proved that raids could be as well; they would just need to scale up a Fractal-like experience to 10 players.

I loved mounts in WoW. I collected 100s of them and prolly crafted over 200 making a nice chunk of in game gold. The latter, indirectly is what I really want in GW2. In other words, I wish there was a really decent mechanism to make in game gold crafting in GW2 that didn’t involve a limited cooldown system. Yes, WoW has cooldowns on high level gear/mounts etc., but there are a plethora of other ways to make gold in crafting. As far mounts, I can take it or leave it, but as others have said, with the WP and Asura gates, mounts are moot in GW2. I would rather the design team use resources to make raids; at least a 10 man.

Hi Storm. Thanks for your note in game. I sent you a few questions. Looking forward to your reply.

I just came back to the game about 3 weeks ago. I got another toon up to 80 to get back into the swing of things. My old guild is totally inactive. I am looking to do dungeons and fractals with friendlies. Thanks.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

Anyone else having terrible megaserver issues this week? People are getting timed-out of dungeons at random. World bosses seem to be a mess. Some instances are very populated and others are bare to the point where you can’t even finish the boss. I was just asked to move to a more populated version of a map while on world boss that we had no chance of finishing. When I got transferred that boss was already defeated.

My son and I have also not been able to party up easily. We see each other’s blue dots on the map, but don’t actually see each other and are on different instances off the same map (especially for world bosses where we with completely different group of people).

I am about to break 80 with my Guardian this weekend. I will play mostly PVE content; explorables and Fractals. May do some WvWvW later on.

I have been maintaining zerker like stats up to this point, but what are the best stats to prioritize for Guardian? I am going to be donning him with Exotics asap since I have a boatload of karma, so I want to make a wise decision.

Thanks.

I came back to playing the game last week with my son. We are both building new toons to get totally re-acquainted with the game. In the meantime we are approaching level 30 and will probably be ready for the first dungeon by this weekend.

My question is how easy or hard is it now to get into a pug for an instance, especially on the lower tier instances? Thanks.

Hi. I just returned this past weekend after a 18 month hiatus. I decided to build a Guardian since I already have a zerk warrior and elementalist.

Are Guardians getting a buff in the new expansion? I remember I could destroy PvE content with my warrior build, but wondering how viable a guardian will be, especially for dungeons/fractals. I played tanks in other MMOs and I know GW2 doesn’t have the trinity system, but I am wondering if the tank/heal like skills could actually benefit my teammates in a dungeon or does killing as fast as possible count for more?

Dear anet,

We know you must be putting out a lot of fires post patch release. However, when the higher priority issues are fixed, please do something to better optimize the systems to get back to fast load times. As others have mentioned, it’s like I don’t even have kitten drive. Thanks for your help.

Kr,
Gio

Man that sucks. It’s a paradox then cuz you can’t can’t get the mats to make an infused ring until you get to the higher levels, yet you need agony resistance to stay alive there.

Thanks. That was very helpful. I am wondering then if I infuse it at the mystic forge will I use the infusion that I have in the slot?

As you can see from the screenshot the Hero panel shows the infusion and +5 agony resistance from one of the rings I am hovering over with my mouse. However, the description in the chat box when I ping does not show it. Everyone else I play dungeons and fractals with where we have to ping our gear to ensure we qualify for higher level play shows the infusion in the description. In other words, in the chat box my Red Ring of Death should say, “[Red Ring of Death(Infused)]” and it instead only shows, “[Reg Ring of Death]” as is shown in the attached screenshot.
This is kind of important in PUGs when you have to prove you have agony resistance for higher level fractals. Thanks ahead of time for the help.

So I am slowly acquiring Heavy Flame Legion Armor for my Warrior from COF merchant in LA. The Superior Rune of Baelfire that comes with it doesn’t seem ideal for a full zerker set-up. Should I replace with Ruby Orbs or is there another Superior Rune that would be better? Thanks for your help.