Guild Wars 2

megilandil.7506:

make bl keys one for week

This is probably the most useful thing you can do with Tomes.

1) Make a throwaway character.
2) Do noob mission.
3) Eat 8 Tomes.
4) Do 1st quest chain.
5) Get BL key + loot bags.
6) Delete character.
7) Have RNGsus kick you in the junk. Yay boosts =_=;
8) Repeat; reset on Thursday.

the raid party window did this to me for quite some time..

it’d be nice if it ignored the mouse hovering over interface elements during combat and just devoted the pointer to terrain/world. it’s weird because i’ve never been like, “whew, glad i cast that spell at zero range.”

it’s the worst when you try to use a teleport to just stay where you were dying

i want short shorts for my big Norn necro. Currently, he doesn’t wear pants, because THAT’S THE OPTION YOU LEFT HIM WITH.

On a serious note, the basic armor skins really do nothing for my dress-up itch. As Rhyse mentions above, there are SO FEW non-butt-cape pants. There’s this great wardrobe system that uses micro-pay transmutation charges (which i’ve gladly paid for) AND THEN THERE’S NO VARIETY IN THE CLOTHING.

You know what? Forget the shorts! How about breaking up outfits so they can be mixed/matched with armor? SO MANY times i see an outfit and think, “that’s a nice helmet” or “i wish i could pair that with zodiac pants” but NOPE. $10 for an outfit, no mix and match. So instead of me buying most of the outfits and burning T-charges, i buy only the perfect outfits while my T-charges pile up.

Sure, i’m merely complaining without knowing the developer’s difference between outfits and armor skins. Surely it has to do with human/system/financial resource limitations, but that doesn’t excuse the utterly lackluster variety of armor skins if they really wanted T-charges to be a microtransaction.

TL;DR: Outfits are meh. Armor skins need variety.

PS: wtb Elementalist Elite Canthan Armor.

• i enjoy hoarding loot in PvE, mostly open-world-style, and playing barbie wars.
• i also REALLY enjoy smashing zergs together in messy WvW, and playing build wars.
• i also kinda like sPvP except: Whiny quitty teammates, hour-long ranked queues, no build diversity, HoT pay-to-win, cringeworthy espurts.

But as Danika said, the variety is what keeps me. Raid-exclusive legendary armor is what’s prolly going to make me quit or move on to a new game.

/wiki princess
/wiki Star of Gratitude

i’ve seen this a couple times now as well. an eng and a druid. i think it happens when a movement locking skill (scrapper hammer 3, druid staff 3) has control of your character movement and you die during the skill. whether it’s death by condi damage or direct damage, i can’t say for sure, but i suspect it’s condi damage death since those 2 skills kinda evade attacks.

Fluffball.8307:

I’m curious if anyone who is a better than average player is stuck in emerald, or if it’s a vocal minority of inexperienced players who think they’re better than they are (Dunning Kruger ).

Is there anyone who is in that situation that can somehow show the community that they are indeed a good player (perhaps community tournament wins, a 65% win ratio over thousands of games, YT highlights, etc.)?

Let’s ignore ruby because that is where most players are supposed to wind up.

Hopefully this isn’t seen as an attempt to belittle anyone, I honestly wonder if anyone has fallen through the cracks or if people are just upset they can’t climb higher than their skill and experience allows.

i’d like to share some insight from the other side: i am a “bad” soloQ player who made it out of ruby and am chugging along diamond, slowly and frustratingly.

i’ve been playing forever, i’m fairly knowledgeable about GW2 in most apects. sPvP is not my strength, but am learning. i claim to be “bad” because my winrate is 47% this season (was ~52% 1st season, but that’s because the condi rev carried me. Abaddon resistance no internal CD OP.) i further claim “badness” because i’ve done many of the things people are complaining about on the pvp boards:

• dying instantly in mid fight.
• going far for a decap when i should probably help home.
• not rezzing/stomping.
• losing all 1v1 in a single game.
• dying multiple times in a single game, etc.

now, i’m not ALWAYS AWFUL. from my perspective, these situational, isolated instances of sucking just happens sometimes.

take for example, wiping at the initial 4v4 at mid. if a couple (un)lucky stuns/roots land, those 4 enemies focus firing will down you. it can happen fast if you’re glass. sometimes you can stunbreak/teleport/condi clear your way to safety, sometimes the focus fire is too intense. it just happens.

in my experience, win streaks happen when you don’t just give up after wiping at mid initially. 1 wipe is like what 30-40 points? less than 10% of the game, if you adapt and play sides to split up their uber 4 man focus firing group, maybe something will change. maybe you’ll pull them into 2v3 where your small team comp is better than theirs while the 3v2 at the other end of the map can stall long enough. maybe during this split you find a soft support who’s very effective at healing but weak under pressure. maybe during this split you find out your necro can 1v2 their dps.

i can tell you for sure that you won’t win the match where someone is typing furiously complaining about wiping at the start and “you guys suck, woe is me” AND THEN your teammates start chattin back. those are the worst.. no wait, the worst is when a teammate types “another loss. afk” when the score is 75-10.

the nerf to bunker builds has made the matches and the fights within a lot more volatile. this isn’t 1st season where you can bunker on two points forever so whoever caps mid wins.

you can hate on me, say i got carried to diamond because of my sub-50% winrate, you can blame me for all your mid wipes but it won’t change me telling you: comeback points and win streak points are where it’s at! you bet win streak fights are tough, but not unbeatable. a week is all i needed in ruby. got a month to try for legendary. sorry to taint your pvp world with my pve item collecting. i’ll be gone once i get my wings.

TL;DR: no more bunker = initial mid fight is NOT THE ENTIRE MATCH. don’t give up because your teammates apparently suck. adapt and earn your win streak.

so since last week, i’ve probably crashed over 500 times. starting to get the hang of avoiding it (at a huge expense to my fun). so i’ve got a few points i’d like to share:

firstly, the new zone is GOD AWFUL! crashing is worst here averaging one every ten mintues or so with normal play (walking around exploring, looking for events). if i stay in one “area” (loosely defined as near a POI/WP/outpost in close proximity) i can play for approx 30mins – 2 hours before crashing. HOWEVER, in order to be rewarded the appropriate meta event rewards, I CAN’T LEAVE THE AREA or i crash. my participation is usually <50% from “bring supplies to outpost” and “defend against monsters at night.” the rewards are weak and if i try to walk around to raise my participation CRASH. try to reconnect and maybe preserve my progress? NOPE 0% participation. this leads to me hanging out near an outpost, afk 98% of the time waiting for an event to start under my nose, trying not to do anything that causes a crash. pretty kittening lame for $100 worth of new content (yeah base expac is $50, but i paid for the big one because i felt the devs deserved it. YOU BET I FEEL BETRAYED)

second, the water (rivers lakes etc) in the new zone ALWAYS HAS REFLECTIONS. i can’t turn them off, in my F11 settings, “reflections” are set to “none,” but i’m certainly seeing reflections in the water (and the water looks ‘shiny’ unlike the rest of the low-gfx water in the rest of the game) my previous cpu crashed often if reflections were left on, could this be part of the problem?

third, the Mad King’s Labyrinth seems perfectly fine. i did a 4 hour binge of MKL after hating the passive wait-y crash-frustrated HoT PvE. 4 hours and no crash, not even the weird patchy blue/green graphics glitch that occurs just before a crash.

finally, i want to enjoy HoT, i really do. the stuff i’ve seen between crashes looks really cool, but then CRASH before i get my rewards… it took 3 days before i even was able to get in to the new zone and now i’m a week behind in progress compared to my peers (guildies who are all approx 20k AP. we all play about the same time, all paced about the same) my peers are way ahead now with mastery level 50+ and here i am with…. 5. hurray for metroidvania, i’ll play with my peers next expac i guess

TL;DR: if you crash in HoT ALL THE kittenING TIME, try to move around less, stay in one area to reap meta-event rewards. does anyone have problems in Mad King’s lab? oh and btw HoT water ALWAYS HAS REFLECTIONS

i’ve got similar problems as well. i crash roughly every 10 mins or 2-3 loading screens(whichever comes first). i am unable to finish the quest that brings you to the new zone.. paid $100 dollars to have my favorite mmo go from waiting on new content to unplayably crashy.. very disappoint.

I just saw an advertisement for Magerealm, a “game” on Facebook which was using the black/white/red drawing of Destiny’s Edge with Magerealm’s logo superimposed.

I attached a cropped screenshot of their advertisement. This is just a heads-up for y’all, I require no further action (delete/hide this post after you are informed, as it is not really a bug. It IS an issue with A website, so I figured this would be the most appropriate place to post.)

As a fan of GW2, I don’t like that these scrubs are saving a buck using your official artwork. If you already know about this or if it is authorized, disregard/delete this post, please.

Dinas Dragonbane.2978:

If you suddenly had a large change in competition with it still being in your ability to handle, wouldn’t you be excited?

this x100. AR and BP tag-teaming Ebay has been very enjoyable. we’ve been stuck with each other for awhile now, and I think players from all 3 servers know the T5 hierarchy.

I much rather prefer fighting against BPAR, getting pushed on our home borderlands, struggling in EBG (on fri/sat atleast), than the usual 3-way brawl where Ebay and BP are eating up AR for easy points.

maybe one day, BPAR can drag us down to 2nd place. i look forward to spawning by Valley keep, attacking Lowlands keep. or maybe the next time ebay pops up to T4, BPAR can give a warm welcome to the T5 visitor.

i guess i’m just sick of playing green