Guild Wars 2

not to mention they’ve completely abandoned underwater content, even the newest map they had to make the water kittening acidic so no one could venture there.

are you crazy? so now that it gets easier for the players that don’t rake in gold left and right to make them you want to raise the prices?? i don’t even own one legendary, i have played since this game came out and even making bifrost was impossible, honestly whichever legendary i look at the requirements are insane.

im sorry you are all going on about how meteor shower was nerfed, exactly how was it nerfed? ive noticed no change in it.

i just played a game where ppl didnt even bother doing anything anymore, it was just easier to let the autoport function move you to the battlefield and stand just to die to get the daily, forget about the other achis, same op team been dominating the field all the time, anet is going down in flames.

I’m sorry to hear you never got it, it’s very expensive to get but at least it’s possible, even if it’s robbery, i had the luck of getting it as a drop from a bag last year, it was crazy, ive never had any luck with drops but that ones extreme, i just wish it had some value outside just being a status object, now it’s even lost that because it’s buyable.

God…when did this game turn into such a joke.

It’s only going down, i’d uninstall while you can, it’s not worth the 24Gb on your hard drive.

Could you do something about this? the xp is way too low the drops are useless even when you get something “good”, it would be nice if you added some novelty drop items like sam except not as useless as its only useful in collection, like a nice skin.

I know that we have the precursors but the chance of getting them is next to nil, ive been playing for 4 years and have no legendary or even gotten a precursor.

im sure everyone is aware of the whole avoid mobs as much as possible in dungeons, how about spice it up with some rare spawns or something? give people a carrot/reason to kill, as it is, mobs are just a whip to beat players with to waste their time.

Discuss.

Well we all know what the problems with this one is but i’d like to remind everyone anyway.

First off this i have been trying to get The droppable items for over a year now, i’m no closer than when i first started, i think the only one ive got is kralkatorrik, personally i would believe that the effort of farming the obviously flawed event chains “all seeing” for over a year would at LEAST merit me with some progression.

And the fact that some people can complete this in a matter of minutes just by playing the tp and having enormous amounts of gold feels like it’s kittening on all my efforts.

Can we just fix the all seeing event chain and increase the drop rate on these items? it’s not like the stats they possess are good anyway it’s just straight up salvage fodder.

At this moment just to get the incredibly rare drops ive counted you need 1216 gold just to buy them off the tp, note this is the easy cheesy way, that’s only available to the filthy rich, who probably would just do it for the lolz.

While people who have tried the legit way to get this achievement just gets kittened on in the form of false drops “blues” of the same name.

Fix this achievement.

You know i for one am mad that i keep getting them, i just wanna make some high tier mats but keep getting useless clovers that i will never use, maybe it’s time to separate the recipes?

i have to say though i never bothered buying HoT because it’s a ripoff, i do feel like i’m getting the short end of the stick here with the Daily jp puzzles, i love doing jps.

I don’t see a reason why it should be gated behind HoT even though the majority of the jps are in the “core” world.

The whole problem is that they should be focusing on improving their game so more people would play it instead of selling out to esports for fast but very shot lived profits, what then when its dead and they’ve screwed up all the aspects of the game?

The servers will close.

Nightshade.5924:

Iason Evan.3806:

I think the name of Wintersday should be changed to more honestly title it what it’s become:

“Broken Toypocalypse Gold Sink Achievement Festival 2015”

If you think the shoulder skins are there to commemorate the in-game holiday you are sorely mistaken. They are there to pull large quantities of gold out of the economy and to add artificially high-time investment to the game. Period.

Sadly a true assessment of the state of affairs for this winters day. I note that as of today, the drinks requirement has been changed to 5000, which still is going to be very difficult to do. If you use the model of 1200 presents to get 1000 drinks, this is still 6000 presents. I think I have opened just over 1250, and I have just over 1000 drinks to my credit.

All I wanted from the get go was to be able to complete the collection. Any skin was to me just a bonus. But since I have seen NO Superior Sigil of Snowfall drops, have only about 20 bells or so, and have ONLY GOT TO THE TENTH SNOWFLAKE IN THE JP, I am more or less done w/ this nonsense.

Kudos to all of you who are master jumpers. I mean that. I read about people being able to complete the WD JP in a couple of mins, and I say “Wow, that’s insane.” As for all and sundry who say JP’s are a major part of the game, I disagree. They are an EXTRA non-combat activity.

Yes, they are everywhere. But unless I miscounted, there are only 45 in the whole game, presumably including the MK’s Clock Tower and this one. How many vistas are there? How many hearts? How many WP’s? Killing monsters, exploring, doing HoT content, doing WvW and PvP, THAT is the major part of this game, not JP’s.

And I totally agree that this WD festival is a major resource sink on all levels. Gold Coins, Karma, actual Gold and crafting mat’ls are all necessary to get the WP collection achievement. Shame on Arena Net. And shame on me for falling for it and burning a bunch of gold and resources on the Essence of Mischief and the other parts that I have completed..

“NUFF SAID”

its still 10,000 you kitten .

nica.5829:

No one is forcing you to get the skin, it’s only a skin after all. Useless! Relax and leave it alone if you don’t want to do the JP or drinks

another person who bought it with gold and wants to feel special.

Ok im no math genious or anything so i will be using rough estimates.

So we need to complete 10k drinks, i assume the way to get the gifts by farming the wintersday dungeon, the daily 50 gifts for the 26 days the event has been up this gives us about 1300 gifts assuming you do the daily, and then it gives you 25 every time you complete it after the daily, say you do it 2 times afterward, another 50 per day, this gives you during the whole season 2600 gifts.

Now assuming ALL of these drop the eggnoggs and whatnots for festive imbiber youll have completed about a fourth, more or less of the complete achievement.

ill add to this that you’ve also got gift from other sources like achis and such, lets be generous and make it that you’ve gotten the imbiber achievement to half, then what?

wintersday will be over and you can, if you got it, do the home instance tree!
One gift per day with 0.8 chance to get an eggnog, youll have to wait for next years wintersday to get the shoulder you released this year, and whose to say there wont be a new skin for next years???

Have some sense anet please, where is the Christmas spirit in having all the ah flippers and traders trapsing around with nice things putting the normal people in their place just because they could afford it, and the rest of the people could not.

Is this what you have become, did martin shkreli invest in this game too?

it may look like everyone has a chance to get the skin, but it’s an illusion, you can’t get this with just hard work, it’s yet another: “if you got the cash you get the stash.” to quote Nancy Botwin.

So i guess anet didn’t think it was enough to have an insanely challenging puzzle to get the shoulder so they added yet another barrier just to make sure that everyones except the select fews holiday spirit was thoroughly crushed, talking about urinating on the poor anet.

The issue isnt that they recycled the event, the issue is that they didn’t improve on it, we have insane achievement requirements for this year, 10k this and 1k that do this for one hour 30 times.

its to the point that people cant do these things even if they farmed the whole season out.

Once again i see the people who got divided, the people with lots of cash from ah flipping gem buying and whatnot who just buy these items and insta gets the achievement, except for the hard ones or the ones that take too long.

And then we have the people who werent so blessed as to get lucky drops and lots of money forced to sell their wintersday loot to somehow benefit from the event, they can kiss those achis goodbye.

Now the only ones getting the wonderful new skin is those who can afford it, by this i mean has both the riches in the game and in real life, and also those who can spare the time to get lucky at the jp and other event, how many do you think this is? a minority inside a minority inside yet another minority, happy kittening wintersday.

i read somewhere that the present disappear in a fixed way or something, there are like what, 50-60 presents there, either you memorize the pattern they disappear in or what, just go for it and hope for the best?
Anet sure knows how to really rip away skill requirements and make it all about being lucky, either youre a savant with an eidetic memory or someone who gets 5 precursors in a row from the mystic toilet, well done once again anet, urinating on your clients.

What exactly is wrong with this jumping puzzle? whats the point of it? first you get two timers shoved down your throat, one is the disappearing snowflakes but just to make sure that you will fail maximum amount of times a degen is placed on your health.

Exactly how is this fun and joyous as befitting the season???

Not to mention at the present part at a jump everyone else seems to succeed at i get hit in midair with a slow and always come short of the jump, also the hamhanded slap to “master” this by succeeding 15 times? what were you thinking?

i log in and go to my home instance i just bought a few nodes to it, i dont own HoT just the core game, didn’t see anything there for me as i main en elementalist, why go through all that insane grinding when you have no use for the class, dungeons don’t reward anything worthwhile.

i try to get treasure hunter achi but all i got left is the boss drops, every time i go to zhaitan or ogre wars no one gets the drop, they up to 500g on tp now, lyssa temple always gets defended so all seeing is just a dream, it feels like there is nothing i can do to achieve it, its all to luck and waiting.

if i could even grind to get gold it would be good but there is no real way to get money in this game unless you convert gems to gold, feels so cheap, the salvage kits eat up all my profit, after doing bosses and salvaging i got less money than when i started.

this game essentially gives you the feeling of being hit with a nerfrod whenever you try to do something worthwhile, all the while putting things behind timegating or other tedious barriers, its like the opposite of “a carrot on a stick” gaming mentality, and it shows, everyone is bored because they have no incentive and just log in to talk with the friends they met.

The damage is hardly worth both the sacrifice of attunement skills and the skill slot it occupies.

Either way they could use some buff.

The whole event chain to get All seeing is flawed to the point that people are abusing it, they’re deliberately defending the temple so the event chain wont start, all the while selling their own all seeing drops at ridiculous prices.

Can you change this already? it has been going on for far too long and i really would like to get that treasure hunter achievement, sorry a “chance” at getting the achievement.

Well no one uses any conjures anymore, this already says alot about them, the damage is lacking greatly compared to what you sacrifice to use one, the icebow used to have good damage until the kittenbag in the video nerfed it and also at the same time spitting the players in the face.

Now the only conjure i see people use is the Fiery Greatsword but of course not for the damage => lol no they use it for mobility, this also says alot not only about the state of conjures but elementalist elites in general, they are so useless that people opt out the “damage” they provide to get mobility and disengages.

I would beg of anet to do something about this, but if history is any indication this goes to deaf ears, because anet couldn’t care less about its players, not to mention the characters they play (unless its graphic nerfing ofc).

Peace and war.

Well done anet for failing your players yet again, let me ask you this, when was the last time you actually made an update that would improve the quality of life of the players in this game? hmm?

and don’t confuse this with what you have been doing, practically removing half of the skill animations in the game, seems like you just want us to dodge randomly and hope ppl wont hit us.

Hey how about you just make ALL the skills invisible? that oughta satisfy your perverse need to cut off the only things left to make this (i cant say what cause you censor the forums) game worth playing.

I was gonna use a great amount of money on gems this month in your little shop, consider that revenue lost, also i have actively been dissuading people from buying this, well it’s certainly not a game anymore, how about calling it “chorewheelluckyrng”?

anet is just fail, they cant do anything right, every update they poop out is a downgrade, it’s funny how stupid they are.

i have to say the whole thing about traits, is that they should “add” to the character, not give back what was already there or should have been there, this is what it feels like now.

The fact that ele in general requires these specs to even have any remote survivability shows how weak the design is, it should add to the strength and growth of the character, not add to the places that have been systematically nerfed/subtracted over the years.

When you think about it, what has anet actually done lately that has added anything worthwhile or fun to the players gameplay, it’s like the whole game is trying to mimic the great depression making everyone equally miserable.

me too, its only gotten worse, at the beginning of hot it wasnt so bad, but with these new downdates, its gone from bad to worse.

Also eruption looks like a small feeble stack of gravel

It’s not even viable as a support.

The whole game is fundamentally flawed, instead of players feeling powerful as they level and get gear we get to feel inadequate and weak, not to mention the constant nerfing of anything that could ever be viable.

Drayos.8759:

the major issue with the current perception of the Tempest is purely it was not Sword, it Was another Supportive half bunkerish Traitline for a Proffession which Already had this, this has upset quite alot of players Because they wanted something new and refreshing, a Different playstyle for the elementalist, Tempest simply did not reach that.

Is the Tempest bad? No, not by a mile, it isnt perfect it is having flaws, but it does work and it is viable tbh. my major notices in the proffession would be:

Warhorn skills, They just take forever to really go anywhere, It seems without the enemy being physically rooted or baited into close combat with you landing this consistently is proving harder then it should be.

Rebound, its a good ability, but its kinda Like a last trigger move then anything to use for situations, u press it as a panic button to try survive, on paper it looks good but tbh its just a weaker version of what the berserker has now.. the healings pretty low.

Water – The overload isnt worth the penalty it costs to realistically use, i could see water needing slight tweaking atleast in its overload atleast.

should Anet feel ashamed of this release, No, the bad feedback on it is just because it isnt what alot of players wanted, i dont think its bad, its good at what is doing what you haved to remember is, Elementalist were wildly overpowered before this expansion, they were bandwagoned and even a meta team comp was built from 4 Elementalists, they dont want this to repeat so buffing them is a Slight discomfort for Anet.

When condi damage takes a nerf (due to how wild it is) anet will prolly find it easier to buff the Tempest, and we prolly wont see the changes til the big balancing patch before raiding, so we’ll see what happens then.

Dude are you high?? rebound good? its so useless you cant even see it trigger, its literally just a protection from one 1! autoattack.

im too tired to go into the full list of whats wrong with this atrocity of a spec, im just gonna go get wasted.

its what happens when the devs dont listen or care about what the people playing their game says.

Don’t touch mah blast finisher

Mhm, and that whoole 5 seconds you feel safe off of the whole….hour? long run sure will be useful.

i had to replace icebow with fire signet other than that i got arcane wave and glyph of storm, nothing else is useful, lesser ele is a joke, as all are other conjures or stuff that “could” add additional dmg.

Tbh i think fire signet should give power instead of precision, prec is a stat for air anyway.

so not only massive nerfs but they also screwed up the skills in other ways.

The real interesting/hypocritical thing is that the npcs within the game swear and use questionable language, i mean if you’re gonna be all politically correct then go all the way not this half passed thing.

i got it twice, hardly a serious bug, but there you go.

Thanks for the gift =)

What the title says, slashclaw stuck saying “kill their guard leader”.

FLiP.7680:

Yep, same thing. I had all specializations and utilities unlocked, and remaining 165 hero points. After this patch, I still have access to everything, but the Training page shows it’s empty.

0.o luckily i didn’t lose any unlocked skills, but hero points yes.

It keeps giving me a red ! exclamation mark but when i check it it’s still all upgraded and nothings changed, gone through all the traits and skill and then it disappears. only to reappear like 30 seconds later.

It only happens on my elementalist (first character i logged in on after the patch), i’m not sure but seems to be missing some hero points.

Over half of the map is in a permanently contested mode, seeing as it isn’t a endgame zone like dry top, cursed shore or silverwastes so people would frequent them, the waypoints are permanently contested, only rarely is the temple of balthazar wp open.

it’s not good design to have a huge portion of the map unwaypointable like this, please do something about it, you can have events near a waypoint without having to make them unusable.

i want to bump this because it’s still highly relevant and nothing has been done about it.

Aerlen.5326:

Oh I believe that it’s possible without the exploit, no doubt though it would take 100 equally skilled players, but I also know that every jerk who was here launching personal insults and crying ‘git gud’ suddenly shut up after the bug got outed. So I’m inclined to believe a lot of successes knowingly or unknowingly were caused by the bug and they realize this now. Teq’s double health can’t really be judged as too much or too little until the bug is patched.

That brings up a new challenge for hardcores though – Teq run, NO guardians (or engis if you want to be real hardcore) on map.

if you need to use an exploit to kill a boss that was killable before, then yes it has too much health.

Bump because this is still highly relevant, nothing has been done to make the jumps be actually doable, also i think the top aspect is like 15 seconds tops, it usually runs out even before i get to the platform with the chest.

Xehanort.7034:

Phoenix.7928:

Here alone are three of ‘em, if you can’t enter, wait. The password is password.

https://i.imgur.com/qIJj1uQ.jpg

while I didn’t find the other two, i can confirm that i found one. Second story, behind the bed.

http://puu.sh/izWvE/ed136a9145.jpg

I cant open the door whatever i do? any tips?

the jumping karka over the flowbers in commodores is too hard, im not even sure its possible to hit it? it jumps way too infrequently, the gun isn’t fast enough and even if you do manage to hit the karka it just wont die! im not sure if the rope or whatever is in the way, i do hope you guys tested this out before releasing it??

Still happening, wtf??

Anything does alot of dmg with might stacks, ele needs might stacks to do the kind of dmg all the other classes do without said buffs.

so no there really isn’t anything over warrior.

ps. ive played ele from the launch, you might not feel the nerfs yet since you just started, but after HoT youll feel it, make a warrior.

Bumping because this is highly relevant and as far as i have seen nothing has been done about it, monsters still chain knockdown and after the stability nerf it’s only gotten worse.