Guild Wars 2

I’ve been having an issue for a while now where my wireless mouse doesn’t work very well in game. It seems to only pick up about 1/4 of the movements I’m making with the mouse, which makes turning and combat a lot more difficult. However, my mouse works perfectly fine on the desktop, in other games, you name it. It’s only happening in GW2. I just checked for driver updates, and none were found. It’s a $15 mouse from Staples, but it’s done well for me other than this issue. I will probably just get another mouse, but I was wondering if this was happening to anyone else in case it’s an issue with the game. Thanks.

Just noticed this is an option in the drop down menu for right clicking on a consumable in your inventory! Finally!!! My finger (and mouse) thank you profusely

Currently, I’m running my Reaper as a zerker with staff/GS. Considering going valkyrie.
I’ve still got good survivability (dodge often, use shroud, use cc and kite things with chill when necessary) and I seriously melt stuff. It’s great aoe. I’ve been able to hold down event positions by myself that would normally take a few people. It’s a very active playstyle, and I never run out of options.

Edit: I realise staff may seem like a subpar choice, but I didn’t feel comfortable limiting myself to melee range on the HoT maps. Events like the legendary wyverns can be really sticky if you don’t have a ranged weapon to attack with from a safe, not-on-fire patch of grass.

Someone may have already mentioned this, but masteries are a rare case of being at an advantage by having multiple characters at max level. I’ve got nine level 80s right now, but mastery experience is account bound. So, all experience from map exploration nine times over, HoT story nine times over, and any meta event participation on any of those characters all go towards whatever mastery I’ve got activated. Pretty awesome.

Sorry to hear you aren’t finding HoT enjoyable.

Personally, I’m loving the new maps, mobs, events, everything. I agree, though, that the metas can be confusing when you first get to a map. I’ve got Verdant Brink on farm practically, but the other maps are still a bit of a mystery as to what I should be doing and when to do it. I figure I’ll get the hang of it by spending more time in them.

Zerker gear can be more difficult to handle in these maps, but there are ways to deal with it too. I run zerker on most of my characters, including my Reaper and Revenant which are my main HoT characters right now. I’m constantly making use of dodge, shroud, blinding, reflects, the hammer evade jump, and other forms of cc. Can’t just stand still and hit things when you’re in the jungle.

As for gliding, I can’t get enough of it. I wish I could glide in all the maps haha.

Edit: I should add that one of the main reasons I love these new maps and meta events is the sheer intensity of everything. I love jumping into something hectic and dangerous and just going all out without any breaks. Maybe I’m weird that way.

The same thing happened to me on my Engineer. I submitted a ticket, and they told me to delete the item, tell them the day/time of deletion, and they’d send it in the mail so I could put it on my revenant. Make a ticket and the same should happen for you.

Now there’s a thought. It does almost seem like some sounds don’t know where they’re supposed to be, or are “behind” me somehow.

I tried posting this in the Audio section, but it won’t let me.

Recently, I got a new pair of headphones (Sony MDR-ZX100) to replace my usb powered speakers. Everything plays fine on the speakers. However, when I try to use the headphones, my weapon sound effects are completely messed up. I either can’t hear them at all, or they’re very subdued/distorted. For example, on my engie I can only hear the end “pop” of the flamethrower autoattack, can barely hear my grenade explosions, and the rifle autoattack is a weird, faint “pah” rather than the punchy gun sound it usually has.

NPC voices sound fine, except they cut off before they’re finished. Music is great and the other ambient sound effects are great.

All I can think is that maybe something about the jack isn’t right. It’s a 3.5mm, same as the speakers, but it does seem to have issues contacting the walls of the plug-in site. Maybe a jack to usb adapter would help?

I’ve been getting this tonight on my lvl 30 storyline. Here are a couple I’ve found, will edit in more as I see them. I missed a few already, but it’s basically been the first line of every scene so far.

Thank you for the changes that are coming with HoT!

I just read the blog post detailing all these upcoming features, and I’m honestly excited. That’s pretty huge considering that I’ve done exactly one fractal and never wanted anything to do with it again. The upcoming reworks to the overall system and rewards give me hope that it would actually be something fun for me to do.

Also, I have no investment in it whatsoever, but thank you for raising the cap from 50 to 100. I was here for the whole kerfluffle involving the change that bluntly lowered the cap from 80 without compensating those brave souls who got that far. I’m sure it could also be seen as “they’re giving us back something they took away and calling it content”, but the new cap is actually higher than the original one as well as including all the new rewards. I’m looking forward to this!

I have a feeling that I’ll use Reaper on my main Necro for the GS alone. It sounds pretty awesome. The shouts are something I’m not jazzed about, and I’m not sure on the “replacing DS” thing, but we’ll see. If I like it enough, maybe I’ll do it on my alt Necro too. :p

Well, do you really want people who don’t like or know how to do fractals very well trying to get into your groups for them?

If it’s open world zerg event stuff, I’m going to use all the skills I have. Tagging is hard enough for things like temple capture events (looking at you, Grenth.) If a pack shows up and the only skill I have on hand is necro staff 5, I’m going to smack that puppy right on them. Don’t expect order in the middle of chaos.

The mini Toxic Hybrid is my favorite to have out and about with me, but if I’m standing still for a while it can get pretty annoying. This particular mini used to be silent, then they changed it so he makes this very loud “HUP”/“HUARGH” growl thing every time he rears up and then falls back down. Everyone around you can hear it, which means you can kinda troll large groups of people like at the bank. It would be really nice to be able to turn it off.

Not that I know of, but we did get a nifty hat.

Mine’s going to be a female Sylvari, because my other two females are light and med armor. Plus I already have males thusly: two light armor, one med armor, and one heavy armor.

I have to admit, though – I’m confused on how being a Revenant works with starting out in the Dream.

I went ahead and reserved the name Locke Daveram after a lot of internet digging for inspiration. Too bad we can’t use apostrophes in naming, but it still looks and sounds quite good to me.

Do you mean male or female? I use two one handers on both genders (as well as using two handed weapons) and it seems ok to me.

This is a great suggestion. Shouts just don’t seem right for a necromancer, and are a bit dull. Plus, changing from shouts to stances would save them a lot of time and money since they would no longer require new voice acting.

AdaephonDelat.3890:

You get the XP scrolls now which can be used by any character under 80 (gives 5% of a level) or save 20 of them up and buy a Tome of Knowledge from Miyani at the Mystic Forge (or any forge attendant I believe?) which will give you one level.

D’oh, you’re right. That’s what I get for posting at 4:30am.
I guess even though the rewards are about the same (or better, really) it feels a bit less interesting or immediate. I dunno.

The new dailies aren’t too bad in my opinion, except for one thing.

One of my main uses of dailies in the past was to help level my alts. Completing the full daily was a pretty good xp boost, and there were some less large boosts for the individual parts. There doesn’t seem to be any associated xp now. Not a huge issue, but I do find it lackluster.

Gems pretty much only go up, speaking in a general sense. I remember buying my first character expansion slot with gold shortly after the game came out. The transaction was 800 gems for a mere 3 gold.

DC protection for one minute would be great. Other games have this and it seems to work just fine.

Right now I’m working on my third ascended weapon – a rifle for my engie after having made two staves in the past. I forgot how involved this is. Cannot imagine undertaking what you’re talking about. :|

Sidenote: why must laurels be so aggravating to get now? I took a nine month break and spent mine on t6 mats, now it’s going to take me a while just to get the three for the rifle recipe.

This is a fantastic change in my view. I took a break for nine months, and when I came back I felt something was different about my engie but I couldn’t tell what.

Honestly, I’m very pleasantly shocked that they finally acted on all the hobo sack complaints. My Sylvari no longer has to deal with those shameful things being a part of his kits build. None of them matched my TA based style remotely.

I can understand wanting the option to keep them, though. That would be the only way to please everyone (though I’d wager they pleased the majority.)

We were trying the game out during one of the Beta testing weekends. Much enthusiasm was had.

Some of the best and most efficient runs I’ve been in were three guardians and myself as one of two necros. They were also guild runs with no pressure, not that anyone even got downed that much. I’ve also taken my necro to Arah and fractals and held my own just fine.

Edit: to address the AP thing – I’ve been playing on and off since headstart and am just now coming up on 8k points. AP does not equate to time played.

No preorder from me unless I see a release date plus actual in game content. I’ve been recently quite burned on… other… preordered expansions. :|

As others have mentioned, a lv2 compared to a downscaled lv80 is not the only concern here.

Mid level characters are now at a huge disadvantage during leveling. Gear becomes obsolete much faster, with the only solutions being to either constantly buy new gear or avoid being in a region that will downlevel you. This is not something that new and other leveling players should have to worry about. In fact, I would argue that is has great potential to discourage new players (as well as aggravate veterans.)

I understand your frustration with the UI sizing, but what does this have to do with the transgender community at all?

Well hey! I’ll have to check this out.

Hello everyone!

Long time player here, been on and off since early release. The last time I played was a bit after the end of living story season 2 came out. So, that was about seven or eight months ago (holy gods, has it really been that long?)

Anyway, I’m just wondering what I missed. The professions I mostly play are axes/staff Necro and flamethrower/grenades Engi in PvE. Any updates at all would be appreciated, as I am now completely out of the loop.

Thanks in advance!

I’m getting the same issue, and I literally came back yesterday from taking a while off. Haven’t done a single thing with the quest. So, this thing is pretty confusing.

I’d like to start by saying that RNG itself is not the issue here. The main issue (as far as I’ve been able to suss out) is that this game has very, very few ways to decide what type of RNG you’re up against.

Here’s the comparison that makes the most sense to me, since it’s drawn from years of experience: in WoW (yes, that game, but where it’s from is not the point) there are various levels of RNG. Most of the time, if you want a specific gear item you can look it up and see that it only drops from certain bosses, often in the 10-25% range. These are what you could consider typical items, not meant to be exclusive. Other items are meant to be difficult to obtain, and so have drops in the 0.01-2% range, but are still dropped by specific mobs. Then, you have what are known as “world drops”. These are items that have often a 0.05-2% drop range, AND have a very wide pool of mobs it can drop from, often across multiple zones. In other words, for “typical” and most “exclusive” items, you can mitigate the RNG by knowing specifically what to kill, thereby limiting your pool of possible drops. For “world drops”, you essentially cannot mitigate by limiting the item pool.

The underlying problem in GW2 is that almost all desirable specific drops, including exotics with unique skins, are “world drops” or very close to it. Only in a few specific instances can you limit your item pool, as with the Sunless weapon chest. Otherwise, there is no way to specifically “go after” or hunt for what you want – at level 80, you could have a precursor drop from the gate guardian of Arah… or any random Risen mob… or a level 5 fish in Queensdale… or from a champ box… or in a dungeon… or from a JP or other chest. You get the idea. Now, I’m not suggesting that each precursor should have a specific list of mobs it drops from since maybe that’s asking too much, but I definitely would have no problem with other unique skins or more “typical” gear and vanity items having more specific methods of acquisition than a completely random world drop. The chance to drop doesn’t even have to be radically better, it just needs to give you a way to feel like you’re on the right track so to speak. It would also be nice if some more common or less prestigious skins could have more like the 10-25% drop rate, say skins from dungeon bosses.

This particular story instance seemed different from when I last did it (almost two years ago.) Also, there will obviously be spoilers in here if you haven’t done this story yet.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but as you fight in the avatar of Balthazar form, aren’t you supposed to get bigger/taller and your attacks either do more damage or start having different forms? Because neither of those things were happening, and the mobs were so overwhelming that I fully died four or five times. Each time I’d restart at a checkpoint, the mobs (all 30 or so of them) would immediately be surrounding me as soon as I spawned. I’m wondering if the not getting more powerful thing was a result of dying early on when I was supposed to “kill mobs to gain power”. I did manage to complete it, but with no small amount of difficulty. Plus, it wasn’t very exciting being in the “small Balthazar” form the whole time.

Where have you been hearing that? I’m just curious, as I haven’t seen anything saying it will be a direct repeat (then again, I only go on here and sometimes reddit.)

I agree that two weeks is super short for this year’s event. Three or four weeks would be better, especially since I’ll be missing the first 5 1/2 days due to travel. It’s my favorite holiday in the game, so missing half of it bums me out. =/

I just today noticed this NPC at Wardenhurst in Caledon Forest for the first time (she’s a bit easy to miss, apparently.) She has some interesting armor going on that I’ve never seen before…. tried looking it up, but I think it’s not available to players. If it ever did become available, I’d snap it up! This looks awesome on her.

Tried to buy gems with Paypal earlier today, waited about three hours and it still hadn’t gone through. I had gotten to the point where you click to be sent to the Paypal web page, logged in there and confirmed, then I got to a page that only had a red bar with the words “Contact support” in white on it. That’s usual for me, though, and the gems usually get through in about 20 minutes. Kind of a bummer, since I was going to get a makeover kit and it’s going out of sale in 15 minutes. Anyone else been seeing long delays with this?

Just remade my Engineer as a Sylvari (I have five out of ten slots as that race now, I have a problem >.> ) and I don’t have any more level 20 scrolls so I’m going through the whole thing again for the first time after the NPE. So far it’s not horrible, but it’s kinda… not better? During the tutorial, it’s really not exciting to fight the final boss with only your autoattack unlocked. In fact, it’s not exciting ever to have to level up to unlock weapon skills (and no underwater combat until level 8 for some reason. I did actually fall into the water with some mobs in it, all I could do was dodge and run away.) Plus, they insisted on giving me pistols until like level ten, even though I prefer the rifle as a weapon.

Really don’t appreciate not having utility skills (or the choice of other healing skills) until level 13 and up. I’ll admit it’s made me quite good at using rifle crowd control/lining up my shots, but I think for an actual new player it would just make them squishy and die more often. I’ve insta died once so far, but it was because I went into an area 5 or so levels higher to be able to gather stuff for the daily (I do what I want!) I was told I could not use my Krait obelisk thing until level 10 for some reason, even though I could use the skill thing at the spiral JP at level 3.

Super annoying not having traits. Can’t comment yet on the ones that have to be unlocked via specific events or what have you, since I haven’t even unlocked traits as a whole. Also, the first utility skill they specifically gave me was the potion that turns conditions into boons. Uh… thanks? Even though almost no starter mobs cause conditions? I hate hobo sacks, but having a kit or a turret as my first given utility would be MUCH better.

Edit: For clarity, I have played since pre-release and have ten characters – four 80s, three around their 60s, a 35, a 26, and now the level 13 engi.

Vidal.4306:

To the OP, I’m not sure why you would let other players control what you do. If they were verbally abusing you, screenshot it and report them, but they don’t have to help you do anything. “people were mean to me” So? The whole game is set up so that it’s very hard to grief people. No one can kill you, and no one can steal your loot. You couldn’t find anyone to help you with the event? There are several things in game that require more than one person. Get over yourself.

Oh, ok. I forgot that clearing an event with a handful of people when it’s scaled to about 60 (none of whom are helping) is the easiest thing in the world.

Sure, no one has to help you, but the point of this thread is that people are actively barring event completion. Their aim is for the event to fail, which isn’t hard for them to do when they all leave the cap zone and let the npcs die. Have you even seen this farm strategy in person?

I’ve found that the fastest TA runs I’ve ever had were with two guardians and three necromancers. It’s what you make it, really. I’ve also taken my necro into Arah and done fine. If you worry about min/maxing, then of course you’re going to be stringent on that kind of thing down to what class you play. It’s not like doing things becomes impossible the second you roll a necro. Get some friends and work with each other.

Edit: I was able to guest to Anvil Rock today and get the whole chain done. In fact, the group there was doing the entire chain multiple times in a row! If you can guest there, maybe you can get it done too. (It’s sad that I had to do that to get away from the nonstop fail farming that has been happening all day on my server.)

I just got to this part as well. I specifically exchanged gold to gems to unlock the part 1 of the story so I could play content I missed and start on making my backpiece. I’d heard a lot about this issue, so I was dreading it. For good reason – I arrived on the map, asked if there was a way to complete this without “disrupting” anything (quote marks included – they’re the ones being disruptive) and was told that I should either get a clear map during Jormag or guest somewhere else. Basically, to gtfo so they could keep mindlessly farming. I’m coming back later during Jormag to try and get a better map and will bring guildies with me to complete this thing. I don’t care who I tick off, I have a right to finish the story I bought with in game money. Freakin’ leeches.

If they’re going to copy/paste a holiday from a previous year, they’d be much better served to choose the 2012 version. At this point it would almost be new, not to mention most people preferred that year to last year. Better yet, combine 2012 content with 2013 content. If they only repeat 2013, they will get the exact same complaints from that year: loss of Reaper’s Rumble, loss of loot in the Labyrinth, and the biggest complaint – loss of Ascent of the Mad King. There was just so much more to do in 2012 than there was in Blood and Madness, and there was a greater sense of cooperation.

Fire Bullet.9236:

with megaserver there is a chance that you will meet players with the same name, how this will affect the system? for example whisper.

No two people in the game can have the same name. It’s been like that since release.

My number one issue with this whole thing is that it completely destroyed any sense of community for me. Server solidarity has always been important to me. It makes or breaks whether I want to play a game. I was extremely attached to the community of Tarnished Coast, even if it was quiet outside of a few cities. I knew who most people were and when they’d be on. We had trivia in map chat for prizes. People were proud to be from TC even if they didn’t roleplay (which I don’t.)

Now, it’s gone. There is no server pride because there isn’t really a server. TC as a concept is pretty much dead for me. Yes, there are tons of people all over running around and stuff, but it’s usually not anyone I recognize. Map chat is either incoherent blathering or eerily dead for the amount of people in the zone. If any “map chat events” such as trivia happen anymore, I don’t see it because it’s never in the same shard as me. I have a feeling, though, that people simply no longer try.

In the end, this is breaking my will to log in and do things. In the past I could sit around in LA and talk to people from the server if I didn’t feel like doing anything else. Now it’s all business. The only pocket of a community from TC that I have left is my guild, and people aren’t logging in as much now for various reasons. I log in, do my daily, and usually log back out. It’s sad. I hate to admit it, but at this point I’m strongly considering switching back to a game that still has defined servers that I am familiar with. Community is everything in an MMO, and this patch pretty much killed it.

Thank god, I thought I was the only one utterly tired of the Marj/Kas “relationship”. They both aggravate and bore me. I’m a pansexual female, so it has nothing to do with me being “uncomfortable”, believe me. It’s amazingly ham-handed the way they shoehorn lesbianism into every. Single. Conversation. I get it, ok? They really like each other. It could be two dudes or a man and a woman instead of two women, I’d be just as annoyed by the constant talk of their own relationship. It’s ESPECIALLY annoying (and somewhat degrading) to constantly shove in out of place sexy references to being constantly naked and the like. Again, this would aggravate me no matter who the people involved were.

The Logan/Jennah thing annoys me also, but as others have mentioned, Logan is actually under Jennah’s magical influence, so I give him a pass for that. Really, I feel sad for him more than anything else. She won’t let him go, but she also won’t throw him any bones. He’s just her pet. =/ (Also, devs: PLEASE make it more obvious in the actual game that Logan is under the effects of Mesmer magic. Almost no one understands that because it’s only in the book, and it makes Logan seem like a real idiot.)

Sent a ticket in yesterday asking for a refund, logged in today and had my 800 gems already. Also, my old armor was untouched. Bought myself the Trickster set and I look much better, so that’s good. Need to replace the boots and maybe the skirt.

Ok, yeah. I’m ordering a refund. This set just doesn’t work at all in comparison to why I bought the old one. There’s too many large flames going on (I didn’t want to look like I was literally on fire) and once again most of my skin aside from my torso is covered. The old armor was much more streamlined and smooth looking, and the flames were very subtle. Also, this new armor doesn’t work with my gas mask.

Edit: For god’s sake, the icons and item picture in the gem store are still for the old set. Really good double checking, guys.

Well… this is the armor set I had before I bought the t3 version of Flamekissed, so… not impressed. I’ll take some comparison pics once my client is patched.