Guild Wars 2

Same here. Didn’t have the problem right after downloading the patch. Exited the game some hours later, just opened it and all my settings are gone.

saturn.4810:

You don’t need voice comm for VB T4. The only thing you need is to do is force people to spread out to the rally points.

Where as TD might fail even with the best voice comm.

And how do you force people to spread without a proper TS orga? Good luck with that. Also TD is totally doable with the communites I’m runing stuff in EU (if I would only be able to join).

Please check my posting history – there was never a bad word about the GW franchise since I love GW for many, many years. I love the HoT content so much, it’s great, fun and I have so many goals yet to reach. The meta events are awesome and I love doing them!

Or wait: I WOULD love doing them. There are plenty of communities out there gathering people for the meta events where you need organization on voice comm. Those are:

• Tripple Trouble Threat
• Verdant Brink T4
• Tangled Depth meta

This is incredibly frustrating. Ofc there are hundreds of players in teamspeak hoping to get in. Today alone I wasted almost 2 hours getting on a organized TTT and VB map. Waiting time includes:

• waiting on TS for the orga to start
• the orga itself (waiting for commanders, looking for map, jump to correct ip, setting up taxis)
• the worst part: “Join on map” spam. Usually I give up after 100 failed attempts to join on the squad

This whole process is annoying, not fun at all and super frustrating. Instead of enjoying the game’s awesome content, I’m totally kittened not to be able to do what I want. Even worse, losing so much time doing nothing but waiting and failing to join.

I don’t know how to solve this with the event structure we have in GW2, but this seriously drags me away from this game. Imo this really needs to be addressed, cuz I can’t stand it anymore not getting on a proper map again. Heck, I tried joining a proper TD map around 20 times by now, never I got in and thus I never succeeded the meta. Taxi Wars is the one thing (almost the only one thing) I really, really hate about this game.

Not impressed until the Lannisters give it a try. I’d even trade a precursor via the mail system with them as I know that these people always pay their debts. I may lose my head, but they won’t trick me moneywise.

Kevin Ardinez.8906:

I agree, my brother made my account and uses my real name, now im stuck with it, I would like change it, i dont want to delete this account because of those achievements and gears i worked on.

Kevin, is that you? Let’s talk Monday morning when you appear to work…to my office – immediately!

created a new charr ele (although I main a charr ele already) to level up with the new folks and make my new character raid ready as well…so a new endgame goal for now. Welcome to Tyria & for Iron legion!

SupahSpankeh.8452:

but the current system makes it impossible to work out when your teammates need heals

oh lala…so much l2p, sorry to say that. a) you can unhide character pictures in your party list – that way it almost looks like a generic mmorpg raid bar and b) with just 10 people voice communication is still easy. Ever played GW1? “oh shait, spaitful on 6!” and off it was. Ofc in GW2 that requires more intelligent positioning and battlefield awareness. Which is good.

I really don’t see those UI issues a big deal at all.

there’s really a lot going on currently in the starter zones, feels a bit like August 2013

KittensWithClaws.3097:

Hylgeriak.8250:

KittensWithClaws.3097:

I bought GW2 base game 4 months ago and can not afford to upgrade now. It feels like a slap in the face.
I see how Anet feels about old plays vs new….

Remember this post new players this will be you some day.

Everyone that bought GW2 after the announcement of HoT can return the game for a refund if you decide to purchase HoT instead. Read the news please before you start raging on the forums and make bad vibes towars new Tyrians.

Refund period is over conveniently.

I am aloud to rage. Hylgeriak you can not tell me what I can or can’t do.

Refund period ended July 31, 2015, true…but there you knew already HoT was coming for quite a long time. If it’s a money issue, you had plenty of time for demanding your refund. Now you shall remain silent, cuz nobody cares tbh. You had your chances.

KittensWithClaws.3097:

I bought GW2 base game 4 months ago and can not afford to upgrade now. It feels like a slap in the face.
I see how Anet feels about old plays vs new….

Remember this post new players this will be you some day.

Everyone that bought GW2 after the announcement of HoT can return the game for a refund if you decide to purchase HoT instead. Read the news please before you start raging on the forums and make bad vibes towars new Tyrians.

BrotherBelial.3094:

People will feel.how they feel, what right do you have to tell them how to feel?

I don’t tell them what to think, but to rethink the situation with a portion of reason.

So people complain about feeling ripped off for having to pay for the base game in the past when it’s now entirely free.

Let’s break it down: I earn around 50 Euro per hour. My /age says I spent almost 3.000 hours ingame. I probably spent around 100 Euro in the gem store in the last 3 years. So lets say I invested 150 Euro in this game I really enjoy to play in my free time. So when I go to the cinema with my gf that’s around 20 Euro for the movie and popcorn/drinks. Let’s do the math:

Cinema = fun for 3 hours = 20 Euro = 6,66 Euro/hour fun
GW2 = fun for 3000 hours = 150 Euro = 0,05 Euro/hour fun

I think this is a pretty good deal, eh? So how can I ever feel ripped off for not getting any compensation when consuming a game that costs me 0,05 Euro per hour? You paid 50 Euro for the base game and had so much fun, enjoyment and good time…how can you even devaluate Anets hard work so badly? That’s really shabby guys, don’t you think? I’m sure I will have another thousands of hours fun with HoT and I gladly pay 100 Euro for the Deluxe edition – it’s just worth my fun/hour ratio in comparison to other leisure stuff.

Don’t be unreasonable and enjoy the company of many more Tyrians to come! For Iron Legion ofc!

and people thought the f2p crowd would roll the trolltrain :P

Currently standing in front of Black Citadel and welcoming new citizens to Tyria <3

€meeflak: you need to have at least 15 characters to leave a post in this forum here

It’s so fun…currently standing in front of the Black Citadel and so many new players popping up. Nice to welcome them to Tyria. For Iron Legion :-)

it’s not the best – it still has the same stats as ascended armor. Stop worrying and enjoy life!

erm how about no? I like the transition, brings more player influx into GW2. Gladly helping newbies in the next time until HoT release – so should you

Haleydawn.3764:

Because fun>meta.

I also run non meta stuff from time to time (necro only team in high lvl fractals etc), but may I ask you why playing a meta build prevents people from having fun? As far as I know, none of the meta players (at least that I know) are forced by a gun on their head to play a meta build. And my guildies that run meta builds…I don’t know – somehow they do manage to have fun too. What kind of sorcery is that?

For me, that is by far the most important feature I would like to see added with HoT. Still can’t comprehend why this hasn’t been implemented from the beginning.

oh yeah, back in those glorious days…“6/8 lf 2 healer” – half an hour later “kitten this kitten, no healers around…I call it a day, cya!”

removing craft? No, in contrary! I’d really like to see crafting beer as a new profession! Just imagine all the possibilities! “Alcohol addict: you gain immunity to freezing for 30 seconds!”

Brother Dulfite.5793:

DE 2.0 is not nearly as good as the original. Nothing beats the Rytlock and Logan frenemy thing.

So much this. Logan, Rytlock, Eir – all very epic and mature heroes of Tyria. But that weird looking Charr abomination (Rox), the not-so-bright Norn, that blond barby doll (Kasmeer)? They all seem very simple and flat compared to the DE characters. Probably that’s owed to their young age…but I wouldn’t have mind seeing our group members maybe 20 years older. They all seem like kids instead of epic heroes. The only interesting character to me is Taimi (and somewhat Marjory).

…is beyond awesome! I didn’t even know there was a new JP until some guildies draged me into it after our friday fractal session – and it was incredible! The Anet environmental artists (or whoever is responsible for the textures and general layout of new LA) are fantastic, wow! I had to stop several times watching LA from above – this is easily the best looking thing I’v seen in any game I’ve played so far (starting from my 286 in the mid 90ies). Also that JP is really cool and you incorporated everything you’ve learned from the past. Really great job on that one :-)

PS: release date for HoT please! (I said please, can you still refuse?)

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Most interesting to me:
“From there, they will land in Verdant Brink, the first map of the expansion, where about 25 percent of the total playable space of that first map will be available to play.”

First map? Is that a hint finally that Verdant Brink isn’t the only map being added with HoT?

Was thinking the same first. But then it could also mean “This is our first map that will be implemented with HoT, we will continue to add further maps such as DT & SW with forthcoming updates”. Which I wouldn’t mind, cuz VB is as large as 3 regular maps with all those different layers etc…but the outer view would be pretty meh if game magazines would report “just one map with the start of the new GW2 addon HoT”. So still hoping for more maps from the beginning.

It’s a beta. “Beta testers are people who actively report issues of beta software. They are usually customers or representatives of prospective customers of the organization that develops the software. Beta testers tend to volunteer their services free of charge but often receive versions of the product they test, discounts on the release version, or other incentives.”

I wish not every cool event was on weekends during summer :-(

morrolan.9608:

MauricioCezar.2673:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It is a LEGENDARY item… it is supposed to be hard to get. If every lookyloo with 20g could get a legendary item it wouldn’t be very legendary would it?

I already bought the mats needed to make/salvage 100 ascended items with this news. If you can’t do the same then you probably aren’t to the point where you should be pursuing a LEGENDARY item.

The whole talk about the new legendarys, is that they are not meant to be a gold pay to get, but a legendary journey instead. So, where is the point if need to sunk hundreds of golds for a chance of a dark energy? This is not a legendary journey, just another grind for gold to geit it.

Good point it was meant to be far more quest based not another grind which it looks like being. Anet being disingenuous yet again.

It’s a grind if you make it a grind. I got full ascended heavy and light armor just by playing along and gathering materials from drops and salvaging. Now working towards my medium ascended armor. People nowadays tend to have the urge to own everything immediately. Patience is a virtue.

You need to understand, that shipping of boxed versions from USA to EU is expensive. Except, that most of the CD’s are not printed in the US anyway and there is no boxed version anymore. So I hope that answers your question.

I’d be totally fine with the 50 Euro IF there was an additional character slot and IF there was a boxed version. I really can’t understand why digital only copies are as expensive as boxed versions of games. Totally makes sense to me (not).

Looks promissing + I’m very much looking forward to it! Though they will totally mess up ig gold prices for gems if guild decorations will be sold in the gem store. Lots of ppl will save big loads of money together to make pretty purcheses in the gem strore for their halls. And housing possibilities are a big, big deal for any ingame shop in any b2p/f2p MMORPG – so be prepared for a lot of shiny stuff for your halls off the gem store.

erm even Warlords of Draenor (last WoW addon) was 40+ Euro AND you had to pay a 15 Euro (?) sub each month. So please don’t be unfair. 50 Euro for the expansion allone would be totally fine IF (!!!!!!) there was a free character slot included. Which is not, so it’s not fine. Really can’t believe how you could ship out a new expansion with a new class but without additional free character slot in the base version of the expansion.

Seems a lot of guys are rage quitting…I beg you sending me your materials and stuff for finally finishing my Bolt

Plus: yeah, 50 Euro wouldn’t be too bad…if there was a character slot included in that price. I spent all my slots of each class and also want to play the Revenant – but I’d rather buy new skins than a character slot that was a standard addition to every GW1 addon in the past.

OK, everyone is aware of how the gameplay mechanics hinders really hard group content in GW2 that moves towards another direction than just dodging red circles and boss signature attacks.

One quote from the main raid thread here says very precisely: Once you have your fury/might/protection/vuln, barring gimmick fights, it seems like it’d be back to the ’whatever’s max DPS after HOT comes out’

I fully agree on that. Whenever the full group is required for a boss encounter, it is like that: stack max boons and DPS the kitten out of the boss. There are very rare exceptions from that. Such exceptions are Tequatl and Three headed wurm. So why not take the hobbits to Isengard? Or in other words: why not scale such fights down to 10 man raid attemps?

Every position can play more or less everything, so every position can be manned with every class (good in terms of class equality). Just force players to spread for an encouter where every player has a different role to occupy.

For example:

• 2 players constantly need to run for something and place it somewhere while they are ganked by enemies. If they fail, the boss enrages and the group has failed.
• 2 players are required for constantly cc’ing enemies coming from opposite directions – if they fail and let enemies through, the whole raid is overrun and fails.
• make the taunt ability be awesome so that proper kiting is feasible (e.g. assign 1 player to kite the second boss during a fight until one is dead)
• 1 player needs to range cleanse the dps raid with a special device that’s placed off the raid, if he fails, the raid fails
• Rest focus on dps’ing the boss
• Make the boss not stand in just one place all the time, platformed fights are interesting where players need to get up first (jumping puzzle involvement) while they are under ranged boss attack. Boss changes platform during phase transition.
• Every boss has different vulnerabilities; e.g. boss #1 can only be hurt with poison and enrages when damaged with ice.

What makes boss encounters fun:

• You can FAIL them when you make errors (Tequatl wave kills whole 100 man raid). That said, Tequatl is the most fun enemy ever. Everything done right!
• Make raid bosses time gated – e.g. you have 10 minutes, after that the boss enrages
• ENRAGE mechanics! If a boss enrages (perma quickness & swiftness, applies weakness with is enraging roar etc.), you get instantly killed by this auto attacks. However you can still hurt him while enraged. This is much more fun than just despawning bosses (3 headed wurm) and you can prevent 1% failures when taking care.
• Punish individual player errors harder! Every player needs to be assigned a special task – if he fails, the entire raid fails.

I am playing GW2 since beta, have played GW1 since headstart. So I love this game and really want it to improve. Because I can’t stand brainless stuff anymore (did the Scratch Sentry Defense yesterday once again…how is this supposed to be fun at all?)

“Thor Odinson of Friya” that’d be Norn meta name.

Complaining itself is meta nowadays. So stop it.

Just to let you know: Blizzard realized how flying mounts devaluate a game exploration wise so that flying won’t be available at all anymore from WoD onwards. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17597939626#5

Interesting move, ofc the WoW community is raging about this. But imo they’re right and I hope flying won’t ever be possible in GW2. But I can imagine it must be hard to take away their candy they were used to lol

Hi,

I’m no programmer at all (just using basic python scripts for speeding up things), so I have no idea if this is possible. But I think it’d be pretty awesome if you could couple the items with current TP prices based on gw2spidy API: https://github.com/rubensayshi/gw2spidy/wiki

So something similar to that http://gw2legends.net/

I love GW2 with all my heart, loved LS, loved farming SW and DT, loved crafting, loved PvP, loving the devs (all of them!). But for the first time ever I’m taking a break from this beautiful game cuz I feel there’s not much I want to do right now. I’m aware developing an x-pac is tons of work, but at least small bits of new content would be nice :-( Or just some official ingame events (such as JP runs with gems for the fastest etc).

In the meanwhile I started mapping on openstreetmap cuz I can’t touch any other MMO ever again after GW2.

Good job Anet…traditionally Q1 is always the weakest, yet GW2 managed to top Q4 which is traditionally the strongest Q!

And lol to Wildstar…people there are just denying reality – talking about a big influx of new players…yeah, we can see. I don’t feel sorry for that arrogant dev team. They will be THE next big MMO, competing with WoW? They made everything wrong one can possibly do wrong. Let it go, make it F2P and end the pain for your struggling community.

You receive a portal once every ten precursors. Good luck!

It is grind if you make it a grind.

Where are the super pros now saying turret engi lowbobs are just present in low to mid tier rankings? Even a rank 80 warrior stood no chance against an engi with turret syndrom.

EU and NA server regions…so difficult to comprehend? God that inferiority complex all the time…sorry for not beeing a non-EU/NA.

Yes, we are unstoppable!

!http://37.media.tumblr.com/474f28620700977c5a3d88420a339b88/tumblr_n5by5djgbo1qcwrtdo3_500.gif!

Because of reasons, that’s why. In my 4k hours played time I had this dropped just once in Orr…less than BLTC keys. But I don’t have any use for those, so I don’t really care.

We had such https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5zjK7ITpQ and such https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5zjK7ITpQ times…eles have been buffed to be viable in PvE and PvP at least.

Just to summarize the latest confirmed announcements:
1.) Cele amulet will get a big reduction in overall stats —> Ele in PvP was (besides Rangers) the least viable class in PvP before the Cele amulet changes
2.) Evasive arcana and Elemental attunement won’t be selectable together with the new trait system…if Ele isn’t capable anymore of granting proper group support, what’s it’s role in HoT? Together with the cele amulet changes, it’s certainly not DD, nor group support. If changes to RTL could be withdrawn, it’d be at least a fast roaming class.
3.) There was one proper PvP dmg spec: Fresh Air. Gone now with the changes to Bolt to the Heart.
4.) Icebow and Lightning Hammer will get nerfed to the ground. Ele in PvE was for a very long time not a viable option at all. Lately ele was a superior DD to the cost of the lowest base health pool. Ele was mainly abused for might stacking and its conjured weapons – now that conjured weapons are more or less gone: what’s the roll of the Elementalist now with those changes? Lowest base health and only mediocre demage.

So what I’m asking all of you: where do you think is the Elementalist heading to? Certainly the ele is moving away from a superior dmg class in PvE. What could be its dedicated role in the future? Defensive healing bot for the upcoming “challenging group content”? Please don’t make this another rant thread – meta builds are changing constantly…I’m really curious where the Ele could be heading to in the near future.

I go AFK when my team is total rubbish and noone is communicating at all at 300vs100. I just want this 100% loss to be over asap. No point in continuing this annoyance.

Easy solution: make a /resign option as in GW1. As soon as at least 3/5 resign, thr game is lost and you may queue your next game.

Hi,

I really liked Stronghold and can see some potential for this game mode. However, the leaderboards until now are just single player leaderboards. I really think there should be an own guild leaderboard, if at least 50+% of the team are from one guild. That’d be even better with 8 players on each side.

So if a player is participating with a team of 6 guildies and 2 others, he should be tracked in individual ladder AND in die guild ladder. Imo that would really strengthen the impact of single guild groups.

(and on a side note: make leaderboards also visible ingame somewhere…oh and 8v8 please!)

same here…I hate that so much – screws the whole pvp expereince. Anet have a look at this before tuesday’s open stronghold demo…..

My ele runs dungeons (and up to lvl 49 fractals) almost exlusively with S/D. I’d say D/D is the least common pve weapon for the ele endgame (though meta in spvp). It makes me sad however eles receive only 1H swords with HoT though :-( Was saving my Twilight for it…

Plus I hope maces will get some more love with HoT…there are some really fancy looking ones, but noone ever played with a mace that I know lol

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Are you kitten serious? Newspaper shows dead people every day from any war zone and ppl complain about some too much visible virtual fabric on a video game? Boy…u must be from the US. We in Europe never understood that prudery ‘muricans are displaying about the aesthetics of the human body, but won’t recoil from mutilated dead bodies in the news…land of the free, mhmkay.

Nieny.9418:

Ok i have only one more question , why only GW2 have problems like this, any ESO or WoW or other mmo… only we have skill lags, lags and others things..

wut? What are you talking dude? ESO is the worst lag fest in all of MMO history. Have you ever been to their type of WvW? It’s unplayable almost…since release btw. Just check their forum before you post anything lol

I only had very small lag spikes in big battles whereas some of my guild had a total d/c…still supporting the ISP issue hypothesis.