Guild Wars 2

I’ve played it through with a warrior and an ele so far.
Some of my personal 2 cents.
Likes.
- I did like having weapon skins available for shards. More of that would be nice.
- Story, I do like lore. The letters referencing things to the past and to previous stories was fun. Fairly conclusive not sure that’s good or bad.
- Map is not complicated to navigate, much better spacing of baddies.
- Event ‘heads ups’ were nice.
- Map bosses are decent. Not OP but require awareness from most.
- Final Boss was ok, thank god his life doesn’t reset. Hope to see a continuation of not road blocking us. Challenge motes are a great thing for those who want challenges for story modes.
- Map meta achieve was very doable. Some effort but no real barriers to complete it, pleasant balance.

Dislikes
- Still quite group oriented. Cannons dailies are just tedious to solo.
- Melee seems at a disadvantage. My ele was a cake walk, my warrior seemed to get shafted especially when ‘trying’ to do break bar.
- Enemy Mesmers; killing them x2. I just ignore them now.
- Not too much incentive to come back after doing achieves. ( The legendarys should have a rare drop skin of some sort to encourage participation)
- Time limit on quaggen escort considering the enemy spawn rates. No one does them anymore.
- Maybe just bad timing on my part but I found I needed to a lot of non combat activities to finish hearts that left a feeling of no reward and waste of time. Bringing food was a good option, but I found unlocking via combat when there wasn’t evasion difficult.

Maybe for next year we could have halloween siege weapons for wvw. They don’t function differently but just have a cosmetic skin and maybe the catapults launch pumpkins, ballistas shoot bloody stakes, candy corn rams etc.

The key is that these are forged recipes using up the insane excess stock of halloween fangs, nuggets and skulls. It would give these things value again.

Also if it isn’t too hard to implement you could do Wintersday ones too.

I haven’t got back in to try but ya I didn’t notice the 30minute cool down. That would partly be my problem. As long as I don’t have a reset issue, it may be less painful to complete this solo saving the whistle and powders just for the alpha dog. Thanks for the feedback.

I wonder if being a ranger has something to do with not being able to use the whistle. Cause if I can use that it would be tolerable. As I said, Ill check it again and report in.

Hmmm. Ill give it a try again. He definitely reset on me, perhaps a bug. Also for sure he wouldn’t follow me to the door; if he did I could see chipping away at it. I see about the mushroom. I didn’t pay attention to a skill reset, I was just looking for the buff. When trying the pet whistles as a rabbit I got a cannot use it message is there someone who can confirm that they could right now while solo?

Wow, so now Leave it to me achievement for HoT Act 2 (Kill all the dogs as a bunny with no pact soilders), went from super easy to ‘cheese’ to impossible to solo. Can’t use wobblers, whistles, or people anymore. I don’t receive the adrenal mushroom buff as a rabbit. As far as just grinding it. Well the alpha dog wont go to the door so it will reset any damage you do to it. Im not even sure 5 players as bunnies (pugging) could even take it on. Sadly need to do the achieve for a Lightbringers backpack collection. Not many people even need it anymore since it was ‘cheesed’ forever so getting 5 people even paying for help just isn’t happening.

Anyone have any suggestions or just abandon this pursuit? Dulfy guide is just wrong now.

So Ive been continuously crashing on when flying in area with the battle of Modi. Last time I crashed on the way to get my chest. I’m running the 64 client. When I logged back in I get a check you network connection error. This is a annoying and basically I cant run DS cause 1.5 hours of work just to get DCed with ability to return several times is a punch in the monitor kinda crime. This wasn’t an issure pre- April patch, now it is.

As of Feb 6
So Im seeing continous issues with people getting the 100% reward. I went through the motions and figured out my issue but not with out having to read various threads and points. Allow me to sum up the steps you should take to fix the 100% reward.

#1: It says you have 100% in your Map but this may not be true. To have 100% you must have found and done all 301Hearts, 509 WayPoints, 719 Points of Interest, 202 Skill Points, and 266 Vistas.

- If you dont have this then scan the areas in your Map view. If you zoom out and place the mouse over an area’s name it will list the map completions of that area.
– Special mention: WvW maps count, as well Fields of Ruin is a zone located south of Blazeridge Steppes which is often missed.

#2: A definite bug is the Chantry of Secrets located in Blood Tide Coast. Once entering it you get a 1/1 Poi map completion. This particular Poi is not counted towards the 719 Pois on the main Map, but is required. Many people who have been there before stated that they needed to return again to get the Poi. This seems to be a recent patch glitch.

#3: In the most recent patch 2 way points were added in the Straits of Devistation and Curse Shore. If you have completed these areas earlier, you will still need to return and activate the way to get the 100% world map completion.

#4: This one is a doozy. Apparently you must have not only completed each areas map, but you must have collected your reward for the area map completion. If you have not accepted the reward in a map area you will not get the 100% map reward (or so I have read).
This is one of the last things you want to do since to do it quickly will cost a few silver to jump around.
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That pretty much sums up the wierd unclarified rules needed to get 100% map completion reward.
After all the steps are checked you didnt get your reward Im not aware of other solutions.

Well I went back to all the areas, no missed rewards. I do have the badge of completion on my character select page and this is the only character of mine with 100% map completion. I have all Poi, heart, WP and Skill Points.

It turned out that the Chantry of Secrets in Blood tide coast has a POI that doesnt show on the total number POIs for the world map completion.

When I walked in I got the 1/1 Poi and the Reward of the Chantry of Secrets chest which yields nothing. I also got my world complete reward.

Seriously ANet should really include that POI in the total POI’s in the Map view if it counts towards the world complete reward.

Nope Michael. That was just a guy who missed the new Way Points. Not really the issue for me and some others who have confirmed not getting the 100% even specifically with the 2 new way points.

There seems to be a few people having issues 100% completion, myself included. The new way points seem to be a major sticking point, however I ensured as Exterminans suggested to look at the numbers at the top left to be completed as I can confirm it will display 100% prior to seeing 100%.

In the earlier posts no one really gave a recommendation other than check your numbers again. Anet has not replied nor have I seen this be referenced to a known error post.

Clouded Judgement’s note about “needing to accepting the rewards” rose a red flag for me however. I cant recall ever not accepting a reward, but I wonder if the new way points has bugged this out.
I had already complete the straits of Devisation and Curse Shore prior to patch and therefore when I recompleted them with the extra way points I did not get an additional award as Anet stated would be the case. But perhaps this lack of flag going out maybe bugged the world complete.

Presently Ill just go to every zone and see if I get a surprise zone completion reward that I may have missed.

Anyone else find a solution to thier glitched 100%?
Anyone know if there might be something Im overlooking?
Basically when press “M” for map and look at my world settings I got 100% and all my WP,Hearts,Poi,&Vistas are totally complete.
I dont believe I need dungeon or diving completion for this.

I also did not recieve my reward or any pop up for the completion. The last thing for me to get was the new way point in the straits of Devistation. Possible the new way points messed it all up?
My mail box is empty, but I believe the reward is a pop up.