Guild Wars 2

John Smith.4610:

VendettaDFA.9368:

Goldsellers are illegal scum …period.

Supporting gold sellers doesn’t just damage the game, it supports an industry that lives off of stealing from gamers and ruining communities.

Then quit designing a game where item acquisition revolves around your wallet. You could ban every bot currently in game today and a week later they would all be back. By introducing even more items that require 100s of gold to create you’ve done nothing but create even more demand for a third party supplier.

Darx.9842:

I don’t understand how I’m supposed to get 100 charged lodestones. In every game I play there is a way to move towards a goal. This just seems ridiculous. 100 lodestones will potential take hundreds of hours of grinding the same mobs.

I thought this wasn’t a grinding game?

I DON’T WANT to buy my mats, I want to earn them myself. How the hell?

This game is all about inflating grind and frustrating you enough to either quit or buy gems.

Taurethion.7302:

I have played MMOs since EQ1, but this is my first experience with boxes you buy…

It’s fairly common in F2P games to have some sort of “gamble box” in the cash shop. Said “gamble box” will usually contain some rare item that has like a 1-2% chance of being looted.

NightShadow.1429:

I find it interesting that the majority (so far) didn’t buy keys for this event and have no intention of buying keys for future events either. Also it’s almost split down the middle between people who bought keys and will do so again to people who won’t be doing so again.

I don’t consider gamble boxes content. So I didn’t buy keys or ever plan to.

Mkalafut.1273:

Does anyone else feel like that’s a bit much for a Halloween skin? Who has the money for that kind of stuff this early in the game to spend on a Halloween skin?

I’d love to know what you guys think.

I had a good laugh and logged right out after seeing the 100x lodestone + Gift of XXX. At this point I expect the next gem store update to start selling WoW/Rift subscriptions to expedite the process of convincing people to quit playing.

I got 180 Tokens off CoE (all paths) and 60 tokens off Arah (Warden). The fix was very welcome. Here’s some feedback regarding CoE/Arah exp.
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Arah
- Tone the length down or up the rewards. This place is way longer than it needs to be.
- Nerf Slime Boss in Jotun route. This boss is the very definition of tedious.
- Lupicus needs a grace period between his AoE—→ShadowStep to prevent resets.
- Lupicus needs to change targets more often in phase 3 to prevent double bubbles which generally result in a guaranteed death.
- Grubs should all die at phase 1—→2 transition. Routinely someone will get “grubbed” right as the phase switches resulting in Lupicus getting a buff stack.
- Some Risen after Lupicus (Warden) have innate stability that is not listed on their Buffs.

CoE
- The lack of a proper zoom out on the Camera can make Subject Alpha’s ice attack impossible to see. (the shard floats above your head barely out of sight)
- Stun Golems need to stun and not do 4k+ damage channeled attacks.
- Laser Puzzle should not damage armor.
- Subject Alpha needs to change his crystal target more often.
- Bjarl needs to be looked at due to his buggy nature and lousy ai pathing.
- The Butcher Golem needs different mechanics.
- Evolved Destroyer needs a longer period of shield downtime.

Someone has to be in range of his Teleport Attack or he will reset.

TA – UP
Me -60, Guildmate A -60

CM – Asura
Me -45, Guildmate A-60

AC – Ghost Eater
Me -30, Guildmate A-60, Guildmate B -15

Every run easily had over 30m between them and none of us have a run a dungeon in about 48 hours. Guildmate B had not run a dungeon in three days and AC was his first dungeon of the night.

I believe shields are meant to be purely a cosmetic weapon and not actually intended for combat.

Choch.8349:

… do you run in there with a guardian and think he’ll tank and you just dps like crazy?

This works extremely well. Not sure why people here think it doesn’t.

I think you guys overdid the “camera shake” script a bit much here.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

there are currently no plans to implement a dungeon finder.

If you are having trouble finding groups for dungeons, you can use our LFG system. Open up your contacts menu in-game, and there should be an option in there for grouping. That way it’s not just people standing out in front of dungeons shouting LFG until someone invites them. This system does not stretch across servers, or to other maps.

Have you personally ever successfully used the system you’re recommending?

Ergo Proxy.6219:

I mean they have no way to hold aggro so their teammates are going to die just as fast, they can’t tank FOR their group members.

Wrong.

Aggro priority tends to focus on the player with the highest toughness/armor. Go find a player with around 3k+ armor and you’ll see time and time again the bosses/mobs center on that individual.

Using the Spider boss in TA-Exp (up route) for example. My guardian who has around 3,000 armor only needs to attack her once or twice before she will just stick to me like glue. In turn I can just rotate Shield of Wrath/Wall of Reflection/Santuary/Retreat and tank her.

@LindseyMurdock

One dev said to use potions/food in dungeons. That’s a good suggestion but has one significant problem. The mats to craft high end food such as Truffle Steak uses peppercorn, not butter/oranges. The mats to craft high end potions makes them extremely expensive.

Take for example an exotic potion which has a material cost that is sometimes actually higher than the possible amount of money I will make in the dungeon it is intended for (assuming I don’t get downed and lose the buff).

@Jon Peters

GW2 Dungeons are not difficult.
- Mobs prioritize their aggro on whoever has the highest armor making them the tank.
- The tank can then just kite’n’smite most bosses/trash.
- Ranged trash can be handled with reflect skills, ex. Wall of Reflection/Feedback.
- Dangerous melee mobs can just be locked down with immobilize or line of warding.
- Bosses can be locked down by chain casting Sanctuary on them, removes defiant.

Dungeons as they currently are promote this dull “zoning” style of play which gets repeated in every dungeon because every mob is essentially the same. Personally I find the Temple bosses in Orr vastly better than anything in the dungeons.

Ruien.9506:

On a side note, when are all of these WoWians going to learn that GW2 dungeons aren’t about burning kitten down and DPS? Its about coordination, cc and combo fields.

Hits Shield of Wrath. Stands in AoE. Block..block..block. Yep real hard.

No tank says who? Mob aggro priority is on whoever has highest toughness/armor. This makes them a tank whether they want to be or not.

Challenging? Get a staff guardian with Wall of Reflection as one of their utility skills. Bring two of them and most trash will just kill itself or never touch the party. Also with Wall of Reflection you can just simply ignore quite a few boss attacks.

Having this happen as well doing TA-Exp. We’ve run all three routes and continue to get diminishing rewards each time.

Get a staff guardian with sanctuary. Even better get 2 guardians and just rotate line of warding.

Alt-tabbed out to check something on guru and the game crashed in the meantime. Went to run it again and now the repair tool has decided I have to redownload the entire game. =/