Guild Wars 2

Korval.3751:

I’m don’t want stuff given to me, but at the same time, I don’t want to be forced to play types of content that I don’t like.

- I would like the WvW armour, but i hate WvW, so i don’t do it.
- I would like the pvp backpiece but i just can’t stomach enough pvp to actually finish it.
- I’d love to be able to get the legendary trinket, but it’s too much boring open world grind that i can’t stand.

BUT

- I love making legendaries so i do map completions even though i despise it.
- Legendaries require gifts of battle, so i do WvW even though i hate it because, as mentioned, i love making legendaries.

All scenarios are things i hate doing, the only difference between them is that the reward was worth to me than the pain of the grind was awful. It’s about weighing up the effort required for the reward at the end, if you can’t be bothered to the do the content, then you don’t really want the reward enough.

So quit whining on the forum at a non-issue and go do masteries. Or don’t, and accept that some things are out of your reach.

Two keys here from login chests.

- Mounts are the worst thing ever added to the game
- Map was sparse
- Hearts were annoying
- Map design was boring
- Mirage is bad
- Spellbreaker is bad
- Scourge is bad
- Soulbeast is bad
- Weavers attunement lockout is annoying
- Unidentified salvage is absolutely terrible and needs to be removed asap

But hey, Firebrand and Holosmith were fun.

Story is boring as hell, the first heart was pure cancer in terms of design and length of time it took, mobs being obviously tuned for condition damage was annoying, mounts are absolutely terrible and contribute to the design choices made in the dull and empty portion of the map we have now.

I only really care about new elite specs and instanced content anyway, the open world stuff in GW is kind of awful.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

• Cost of ascended weapons: ~50-80g
• Cost of AR+9/Stat+5: ~60-70g

So the costs are comparable.

Except they aren’t since you don’t craft 18 weapons per character.

I think i must be the only person who thinks SAB is total trash. I started playing the game a couple years ago and kept hearing how amazing it was, then when i finally got the chance to play last year it just seemed like a really bad Super Mario 64 rip-off.

I dunno, glad people enjoy it, but i’ll never understand the hype.

In fairness, he isn’t wrong to say that it wouldn’t be power creep. But that’s only because it would be a full on power lunge.

Still on the hunt for a few more people to join us.

Plautze.6290:

CMM.6712:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Are you volunteering for the first infraction?

Yes. I want to maintain my considerable lead on the infracted/bans leaderboard.

Where would I find that leaderboard?

Right beside the fractal leaderbo….oh.

Glael.7643:

API key from others? Isn’t that against the AGB’s?

It is not, no.

The API key is provided by ArenaNet, and any key given to us is done willingly by the applicant. If people aren’t okay with that then that’s cool, plenty other guilds won’t want to see a key.

Hey Everyone,

Evocative [eC] consists of a small group of very experienced raiders *on the EU servers. We’re looking to recruit some more players to both increase our roster size, and to get more people in who are free and eager to raid multiple times a week. To that end, we are looking to recruit very experienced raid players who not only know their class very well, but who have a positive attitude and are capable of having fun, as well as being able to accept constructive suggestions or criticism.

We are not a teaching guild, so before applying please make sure you know each raid encounter very well and know how to take responsibility for your own gear and any utility/trait/food changes between encounters.

Expectations/Requirements:

• We expect applicants to be able to run at least two classes at a high level in raid encounters, and to be open to swapping between them if and when the time calls for it.
• One of the classes you apply with must be one of the “core” raid classes; Chronomancer, Druid, Elementalist or Warrior. And you must have the gear and ability to play all expected builds for your chosen classes.
• We require fully ascended gear and best in slot food to be used at all times. As a result we will need your API key to check your gear out for ourselves.
• TeamSpeak is mandatory and you will need to have a mic and be willing to communicate with the rest of the group.
• We want you to want to play with us, to grow with us, and to have an interest in always bettering our kill times and personal skill level. We ARE NOT a Monday kill clear group that you can use to shard cap then not play with us again until the following Monday, and you are expected to want to raid with us more than once per week.
• You DO NOT have to represent us all the time if you don’t want to, only when we raid together will it be required.

What you can expect from us:

• A group of players who are always aiming to get better and push our kill times.
• Players who are open to constructive feedback
• Players who love doing low man raid runs and schedule them as often as possible, which is something we hope you will also be interested in.
• An unhealthy amount of terrible gifs spammed at your from our guild leader.

The Trial:

There will be a trial before you can join us. This is to find out who not only has the experience and ability that we’re looking for, but also to find people who we think we can get along and have fun with. Firstly, we’ll need you to do the standard DPS golem tests, after which you’ll raid with us to see how you play for real during the encounters, then we’ll take it from there.

Please contact me in game if you have any questions regarding applying to join us, the trial, or anything else.

HwaRyun.1807

Thanks!

Hey Everyone,

Spirit Fail [Sx] consists of a small group of friends pulled together from in and around several elite speedclear guilds on the EU servers. Our aim is creating a dedicated raid group who can tackle all three wings quickly and proficiently on at least a frequent basis of 3-4 times per week. To that end, we are looking to recruit very experienced raid players who not only know their class very well, but who have a positive attitude and are capable of having fun, as well as being able to accept constructive suggestions or criticism.

We are not a teaching guild, so before applying please make sure you know each raid encounter very well and know how to take responsibility for your own gear and any utility/trait/food changes between encounters. We aim to grow into a group capable of clearing all wings in a timely and competent manner before ultimately moving into low man attempts and possibly raid selling groups depending on how things go.

Expectations/Requirements:

• We expect applicants to be able to run at least two classes at a high level in raid encounters, and to be open to swapping between them if and when the time calls for it.
• We require fully ascended gear and best in slot food to be used at all times. As a result we will need your API key to check your gear out for ourselves. We will also be doing daily fractals, thus; having 150AR is prefered but not a requirement to join the guild.
• Knowledge of group compositions and skills in fractals and raids.
• TeamSpeak is mandatory and you will need to have a mic and be willing to communicate with the rest of the group.
• We want you to want to play with us, to grow with us, and to have an interest in always bettering our kill times and personal skill level.
• You DO NOT have to represent us all the time if you don’t want to, only when we raid together will it be required.

What you can expect from us:

• A group of players who have a desire to form a dedicated group for fast daily/near-daily clears.
• Players who are open to constructive feedback
• Players who love doing low man raid runs and want to try them often.
• A guild TS server.

The Trial:

There will be a trial before you can join us. This is to find out who not only has the experience and ability that we’re looking for, but also to find people who we think we can get along and have fun with.

The pre-trial will consist of fractal encounters based on your chosen professions, and a DPS golem test to check rotations. If you pass them okay we will invite you to the guild as a trial member where we will take you and some other applicants along on a full three wing raid clear to see how everybody performs in each of the different encounters, as well as how you get along with the rest of the group as a person. We will then make a decision of each of you based on how we each feel the run went, how we felt you fit into the group and by using video recordings that we will make to review everything.

Note: It is important to know that we are not yet a full group of ten players ourselves, so multiple applicants will be trialed at the same time, which, depending on how many people apply, will take some time to set up. If this isn’t a problem click on the link below to apply!

https://spiritfail.typeform.com/to/mCMWVJ

Alternatively, contact any of the below users in game if you have any questions:

Valentine.9732
ILYAVI.6192
HwaRyun.1807

Thanks!

Obtena.7952:

STIHL.2489:

Bast Bow.2958:

And why are you battling too?

You’re right, I didn’t come here to have my mind changed, I came here because I used to be an elitist like most of my opponents, maybe a bit worse, but I grew up and realized that games overall are better when they are built to be inclusive, where we can all play together and all of us progress. I found that seeking to make something that includes people, that makes all of us feel good, that deep down, we are all gamers, and we all should be treated legendary, is a more worthy cause then “Mah Speshul Lootz!”

The real question is, why is everyone else here?

This deserves a bravo because regardless of what side of the fence you’re on, being exclusive only limits YOU OWN gaming experience and options. I’m not really going to point out elitism or anything, but if you only run with the top 10 guys … then your game is only 10 guys big.

I pretty much only raid now, it’s the only reason i’m still around in a game that’s almost totally awful in every other area, and i can say with almost 100% certainty that i play with more people than you or most other more casual players will in any given week.

I regularly run raids with three guilds each week, which would be 27 people if the teams were always the same, which obviously they aren’t. So you can easily knock that firgure up to 40-50 when it comes to people subbing, new people joining or when we do repeat runs to get other guildies who aren’t in the main squad their kills for the week. I’ll also be invited to help with friends and other guilds on occasion, further increasing the amount of players i’ve played with that week. And let’s not even bother thinking about people i pug with just for fun, or when i join training runs to help people out when i’m bored.

And most of these players will be either typing in chat or on TS where we can have conversations, sometimes even becoming real friends in the process rather than just people i raid with. I think that easily beats out running in a zerg of nameless autoattackers or running the odd dungeon with four other people who almost never speak.

My game is larger, and far more meaningful for raids having come into existence.

Personally, the only thing i really love in this game now is raiding, the rest of HoT is pretty kitten ed awful. The mastery system is the biggest heap of crap i’ve ever seen in a game as well.

They sure do tell a story, quite a few actually:

Boredom. Tedium. Disappointment. Superfluity. Lifelessness. Frustration.

Pity none of them are remotely positive in the kitten show that is precursor crafting.

Monday – Raid
Tuesday – If i login, raid again to help people who still need a clear
Wednesday – Same as Tuesday.
Thursday – Nothing.
Friday – Nothing.
Saturday – Nothing.
Sunday – Skillfully avoid guild missions. Also, nothing.

The game has almost zero interesting or fun content aside from raids now, so there’s no reason to do anything else.

Creepy and lame.

I’ve had four/five in a week. But before that i had nothing in two months….go figure.

Noticed this as well and thought it was odd. Everything about that second “boss” is odd though.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Sird.4536:

I like the different style with no dedicated tank and condition damage. One thing bugs me is the enrage timers could have been shorter. Had 2minutes left on both bosses on first kills with mistakes.

If I recall Crystal said they toned down difficulity was due to achievements being too hard. The extra minutes on the timer might be that – allowing these achievements to be done.

Even with that considered, i don’t think it’s balanced very well with regards to time. We completed Mattias while having three people down for over two minutes, and at the end one or two more went down before we got the kill. Perhaps this should be possible after weeks of practice and thinking of new tactics, but this was a pug group going for their first kill, and we had so much leeway that it seemed somewhat trivial in the end.

That said, i love both Slothasor and Matthias, i think they’re really fun fights. The middle one was awful though, i thought it was nothing more than a boring, tedious event.

I’m not a huge fan of the design either. Sure, it’s funny and good for a laugh, but i don’t really want my raid bosses to be making me laugh when they could be making me intimidated or think “oh, that’s really cool” to myself. Those minions are all kinds of pathetic too, their faces look like stretched jpegs.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

New fractals confirmed.

Except new fractals are irrelevant before they even get added, unless ANet overhaul the dailies properly.

They have to find a place for them in the scale first, then they have to make sure that people run it. Even if it’s really fun nobody is going to run it with the current dailies system after the initial buzz of new content wears off, unless it’s quicker than swamp, but if it is quicker than swamp then the chances of it being interesting and fun are almost zero.

The most fool proof way is to destroy one of the seals fully (usually left as Snowball says) while letting the other regenerate between hits, that’s how i did it with pugs the first time i cleared it, and about another 3-4 times after then with both pug groups and guildies before i changed guilds. It’s obviously slower, but if you’re having trouble completing it then that method should be very reliable to just get it over and done with.

Haven’t done this one in months though, i don’t think i’ll ever do it again with how boring the higher levels can be.

They do still drop, they just appear to be rarer now than pre-HoT.

It seems kind of silly to let people speculate and get their hopes up about the fractal changes dropping today when you guys knew it was never part of the plan. A simple “It won’t be the coming with the December 1st patch” would have done.

I haden’t pugged Mossman at all before the other day, guess i’d been lucky to always have a guild/friend group whenever we got swamp before then. So i never knew this exploit was a thing until i rolled in with a bunch of pugs and they started jumping on the roof of the shack.

Instantly i just groaned. The best thing is that it was the random conditions instability, so any time someone did happen to get hit by a stray axe the whole group would end up being feared off the building. I swear it took longer than doing it normally because of that…

An AR checker NPC isn’t even elitist, it’s just sensible.

What is funny is that the only people left doing dungeons are the ones who actually enjoy them, so i see so much less “metazerk 80 exp” groups now.

I laughed when i saw it. Just figured they gave up on trying to even pretend like fractals are for anybody other than the most casual of all players.

I’ve had a grand total of two uninfused rings, zero fractal weapon skins, zero golden weapon skins, zero ascended weapons and zero ascended armour pieces from any of the chests i’ve gotten. And i’ve had full fractal masteries since the first day.

People always link what they get, and so far i’ve only seen a handful of people get a ring, and haven’t heard of anybody i know getting armour, but i did see one weapons chest that a guildie linked in chat.

Fractals have been ruined so badly.

It’s fine, nerfing all the classes is obviously more important that making sure we can progress in fractals. I’m sure it will get fixed in the next couple of months.

This is just getting beyond dumb now. What happened to ANet coming on these forums and telling us how they wanted to open a dialogue and have a forum presence around here?

This isn’t just a small issue, it’s actively blocking people from doing the higher level fractals now. I can’t find anybody to pug the 75+ fractals with very often because nobody can get the AR needed. Yes i play them with my friends, but if they aren’t online then it can be hard to find even one or two more people for the higher levels at times.

This guy being disabled for the last few days has been sucky, but now that the login servers are crashing everywhere my mesmer is stuck inside a fractal, and it’s the only character i had geared up to 150AR right now. The rest are still much lower, so i’m basically barred from doing higher levels with people until this is resolved.

Pain the kitten .

Mines wouldn’t attune unless i used the extractors on them first, the same thing happened to a friend of mines. Guess it’s just a bug.

I wish they would tell us what when wrong with this guy. I was really wanting to finally get around to replacing all the infusions on my alts so i can get 150AR with them all

This one is actually really easy to do without lifesteal just by paying attention in a somewhat decent group. We did it on the first try where we actually knew when the timer started, and we had one DC, so it was basically 4-manned.

I’m having a lot of fun with the expansion right now. I have major issues with the grindy mastery system, and the complete locking out of content because of these mastery lines, but there’s still a lot of fun to be had. I really hope they find a way to change mastery’s though, right now it goes against the whole GW2 ethos. I’m not even going to mention fractal rewards either, they totally screwed that up.

But hey, at least we have CoF P1 to level mastery’s up, because what says “SHINY NEW EXPANSION HYPE” like a return to the days of CoF P1 farming? Pretty sure i ported right on top of you outside the dungeon last night actually, Miku xD

Rednik.3809:

HwaRyun.1807:

I like it.

The highest tier of salvaging should have a cost barrier, otherwise it makes getting those legendary parts trivial and meaningless. Looking forward to salvaging my 400 or so rings when i finish downloading the patch.

Not sure if troll or just…

Why would i be trolling?

Those fractal fixes are excellent. My client just finished downloading, so will check them out soon.

Fun skins, but at the cost of a BL ticket, they’re absolutely awful.

I like it.

The highest tier of salvaging should have a cost barrier, otherwise it makes getting those legendary parts trivial and meaningless. Looking forward to salvaging my 400 or so rings when i finish downloading the patch.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Tears of every pro-diversity casual.

Exactly what what i just said to a guildie, who called me an elitist kitten in reply.

Sadness.

I managed to not be hyped at all for all of this time, but kitten am i pumped for HoT to drop now. The only worry is that me and a friend will have to keep replacing party members when we spend the day spamming fractals until our eyes bleed, would be much better to have a settled group.

Can’t wait to my chrono on, i already miss those amazing well/shield sound effects <3

Can’t wait to just spam fractals tomorrow. Me and a friend planned to just tank them for a while and see how far we can get, and what’s changed. Hopefully we have enough guildies coming and going that we won’t need to pug at all.

Chronomancer for sure.

It’s the best spec conceptually, the best in practice and the most fun to play. No brainer for me, mesmer has become my new main with this.

That poor Tempest though…

No.

/somethingsomethingmessagetooshort

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Unless a minion is specifically targeted by a creature, they will be dealt 95% reduced damage and condition duration from attacks.

Oh my, i’m wet.

Daaaamn! As someone who’s playing mesmer most of the time lately, this is great news.

dlonie.6547:

Heh, what a crazy weekend.

TIL:

Zaroua.2714:

NikeEU.7690, Pandabro.8743, Laggo.8973, Purple Miku.7032, HwaRyun.1807, TheFamster.7806, Brimstar.9036 and Zui.9245 all give off white knight vibes.

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at a couple of those.

I laughed after reading, then realised my name was there too. I’ve only posted once or twice on this whole ordeal xD

Welp, this is pretty sad news, but it must have been a hard decision, so hopefully you can sort it out and get another beta test scheduled at some point before release.

I think i’ll echo dlonie and get out of here now before the whining and “i told you so’s” become suffocating.

I’d personally want the group leader to distribute all loot out to who deserves it, but meh, that goes against the games philosophy of people sitting in downstate for half an hour and getting ascended rewards, while the people who cleared the content get nothing.