Guild Wars 2

Maybe ‘the first one’ is just a generic historian. I found this one in Sparkfly Fen, and he looks quite familiar..

http://imgur.com/a/5LcYU

common strategy though..

foxcat’s post is actually a very good one here.
If you don’t just “play a guide” and actually try to focus on the environment around you, use what’s given to you (skill-wise) and try to “see what’s dealing the damage” (learning to dodge the new animations of mobs) you will get along in no time. But well it takes practice (like basically everything).

And don’t get me wrong, the Mordremoth fight is one of the best meta events that GW2 has ever seen imo (Music, setting, general mechanics and their variety). Just those Issues ruin everything and make it boring and annoying instead of entertaining (which it definetely was the first few times)

Hello everyone,
I don’t know if it has been pointed out by anyone yet, but I am almost sure it has been (as it is very easy to see – for anyone but the devs apparently?).
The Crystalline Ore Vendor at the end of DS should be made accessible permanently (maybe after beating the Meta Event once, or after finishing HoT Story or what ever).
What brought me to this conclusion?
I had to get to this dude several times to finish the Spec-Weapon Collections and this very last time before being done with the last weapon:
Mass DC of the whole Map right when Mordremoth pulled of his usual “Hey guys I am well designed and appear for an ‘invuln-DPS-phase’ after being slain”-move.
At least we got that unskippable vid, which is very interesting when watched for the n+1th time (I am so glad that my insertiable crave for unskippable cutscenes is getting served so well by this game) before we were sent back to the login screen after 1-1.5 hrs of wasting our time. As you can tell, I was able to craft a second ‘Vial of Salt’ after this incident…
So please:

-> make the Crystalline Ore Vendor accessible somehow without having to grind for 1-1.5hrs (I overheard some interview with a dropped line like “we don’t want our players to grind…” or something like that if I recall right?)
-> reconsider (basically all) unskippable cutscenes
-> maybe fix the mordremoth issue (zombie-mode)

Yeah sure.. As bugs have a tradition in GW2..

What if I told you, that the game mechanics (fast movement to green, dodging blues, kiting him right and breaking him fast, CC Heal Dodges and some simple DPS rotation basics, as well as using the masteryshrooms) are much more critical than your kittening gear at the vale guardian? But as always: if you suck at playing, gear makes it easier to compensate your mistakes, cheers!

If you didn’t manage to get ascended stuff (speaking of trinkets especially) since their introduction to the game (which was 2 months after release), you are a roleplaying casual in my opinion. Sorry but, it takes you like 1-2 weeks to get that stuff IF YOU ACTUALLY SPEND YOUR TIME WORKING TOWARDS IT INSTEAD OF AFKING IN DIVINITYS REACH OR CRYING ABOUT HOW HARD YOU THINK IT IS.
Sry Caps overkill, but as I already used that amount of caps, let me go on:
Don’t whine about it, JUST DOOO IT!

OP, I appreciate your post, but there are some points that are just irrelevant if you keep in mind for which audience raids were introduced. They are NOT meant for everybody. They are the endgame, which was non-existent until HoT (we only had a gold-farm, like you pointed it out right, and in my opinion, people who participated in this so called timewaste should be rewarded in some way, even if it is in this way.)

Let me clarify this by asking you one essential question:
Do you want to attempt to do stuff that is meant to be the endgame content with gear you can simply buy off the TP for an amount of gold that you can easily farm in one day of playing (speaking of exotic gear), and after the “long and exhausting journey of gearing up in your fancy exotic gear”, do you want to be able to beat the endgame content in an easy peasy session of 2-3 hrs from not knowing what to do to killing it?
If you can answer this question with no, there is still hope.
Ascended armor is obtainable for 2+years, and honestly, if you haven’t managed to get the best armor for your characters in those 2 years, maybe you just aren’t meant for this type of content.
And of course: per piece ascended armor might just be +5/stat/piece, but in total you have a significant boost, which is certainly NOT ONLY 2-3%. It’s more. There is some spreadsheet, I recommend looking it up on google.
If you think getting the endgame content done in no time, and with any gear, is in any way good for the integrity of a game, or if you are not willing to spend that amount of time in order to get the challenge done, I recommend watching a move or reading a book. Both give you the content they are meant to deliver for much less effort.

I dont’t mean to offend, I just feel like these days every player has to q.q around, leaving Anet little to no space to move without stepping on some community-part’s feet. They broke the feet of the dungeon community already, let’s not make them trample around more

Hello everyone, this is in my opinion one possible way to fix dungeons:

1. Introduce a Dungeon Mastery.
2. On the first few tiers of the mastery you unlock some random stuff.
Like maybe a Dungeon Token Conversion NPC who can trade DungeonTokens in for other Currencies (shoutout to people with 10k+ unused tokens of each dungeon!)
3. On the last Tier, you could finally give people a ‘Hardmode’ which makes bosses
actually harder (not just tankier), like shortens animations, makes the AI less predictable, maybe new boss-skills that are a must-dodge, etc (you know, actually challenging, or maybe some mechanics like those golems at the Ancient Golem HP in AB, which was challenging and fun to solo).
4. The introduced Hardmode can only be accessed by people who unlocked it.
5. The completion of a dungeon in the new hardmode gives you the reward that was there before the nerf (maybe even a little more, because people earned it)
6. Fix some random bugs around Dungeons (for real guys read the bug forum xD)
7. Make your dungeon community happy again

Oh and maybe this mastery should be one that can not be pushed up in CoF but actually I don’t care.

Sure, if by balanced you mean you can rarely play power builds anymore, because (e.g. for thief) they just doen’t perform as good as they used to.
Funny Vid on that topic, a bit outdated, but still comedy gold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdgfOk0RWw

And listing something does not mean it gets bought at that price and it won’t be bought fast, that’s for sure. If you refer to the P4 recipe (Bloodstone) just look it up on gw2spidy and see for yourself how everyone is undercutting each other – it was on 11g listing 2 days ago.

insanemaniac, I hope you are fimiliar with the concept of sarcasm?
But for real imo it is one thing to release a nice expansion but the bugs and problems of the (not only core-) game somehow pull the whole game experience down..

If you really think speedrunning dungeons in an organized group and trying to run the best time possible is a mindless process (or would involve the use of bugs/exploits) you are a little oblivious in my eyes.. From your comment I automatically assume you have to OS Lupi to proceed in arah..

Also one of my core arguments is that bugs and exploitable stuff should be fixed in the first place.. maybe try to fully read a text before you comment on it (I know it was a little too long to read it mindlessly )

Maybe the devs thought that the average player would make 2-3g/day from dungeons, so they moved that reward to the fractal dailies

Rule 1 of TP Speculator Club: Share your Speculations in a Forum… Smart move. But if you try to regulate the price to your benefits with this post.. well played

Congratulations on the smooth launch of the expansion!
This might be (as it was stated on many sites and posts) one of the best launches in MMO history. And HoT itself seems nice too.
But I am deeply disappointed with other parts of the game that were loved by many.

First, and most frustrating:
Dungeons.
Why? Just why did you remove (meaning making it so unrewarding that no one really
bothers anymore) one of the core parts of this game [pve] (which had sooo many bugs for the last 3 years..), instead of putting more work into actually introducing them as they are intended?
I am not working at a game developing company, but in my opinion people that do mistakes should be able AND obliged to fix them. Even more obliged to if they got/get paid for the work they did/do… Am I just naive on this one?
And I think you should find a median between the old reward and the ‘reward’ (if you really want to call it reward) that we get now (please consider it).

Second point, maybe as frustrating as the first one:
Fractals.
Again I can just wonder why?!
You made the “more challanging” part of the game easy but boring. And it is now more unrewarding than it ever was. Please don’t get me wrong. I don’t think nor did I ever think that 1.40g for a frac50 run plus a very low chance on asc or fractal stuff was very rewarding in the first place…
But the new loot system is just.. well go read the forum posts about it.
And those instabilities. Are you for real?
Dodge and loose boons. Are you really thinking this will screw zerker builds more than any other build? Are you thinking this is actually balancing anything or challenging players in a good way (so far it’s just tanky stuff but not hard..)? Why are there so few instabilities? You are some of the most creative game developers – I expected more tbh..

Third point:
Economy.
Please help me understand how we are supposed to get gold, because at the moment I really don’t have a clue.
I used to run dungeons (50-80g / day). I did SW occasionally but I don’t really like it. I did fractals (just a daily 50 mostly, because the lower ones were even more unrewarding). As far as I know raid reward will be obtainable once per week? (Didn’t really read much about raids yet so correct me if I’m wrong) That means if we
assume the raid reward would be roughly 100g (which it will certainly not be, right?) I would still get sooo much less gold than before HoT. And on the other hand you introduce a new shoulderpiece which would cost ~2-3k gold to craft (I liked the Idea of letting the community find out how the recipe was though, shoutout to the reddit-post people!). And even if the new GW2 has super expensive Items and no easy way to grind your gold (and still have fun) I would like you to AT LEAST fix the stuff in dungeons anyways. Even if there is no reward like before you owe those dungeons some fixes in my opinion (just read the dungeon bug forum..).

And please don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to insult you or anything, I am just deeply disappointed sometimes and I am sure you can do better than that (Like when you brought us new content every 2 weeks during living world season 1 – oh boy, that was a good time!). And inspite of my critic-points: I like what I’ve seen of HoT so far, but pleeeease also do stuff for the core Game and fix general issues. Don’t let your players down guys. Thanks for reading.

Some other points I want to mention, that really grind my gears, but my post is pretty long already:

Fractal collection bugged.
No lv50+ daily today.
Server Issues these days.
Condition Builds in PvP.
UI windows that can’t be resized.
Fractal Achievement Crates tradeable (I mean srsly?!).
Communication with players (bugs/fixes/updates).
Find a better way to determine if a player is just clearing out his bank or botting.
(OMG HE JUST LISTED MORE THAN 10 ITEMS IN 3 MINUTES HE MUST BE A BOT NO ONE CAN SELL STUFF THAT FAAST!!11!1eleven)
Feel free to add some in the posts below.

Day 9 .. Did the investigations bring any results yet? And offtopic: why were people missing GW1 AP today, which they got back after relogging?

You are not alone myren!

Wow that was fast! Thanks

Hey, we’d like to share some TA fwd today, including extremely long npc roleplay, enjoy!

Colin, if you read this, thanks in advance for nerfing dungeon rewards.. way to go m8!
Oh, and shoutout to Enko (sorry to bother you yet again)!

Twilight Arbor – Forward (Trio)
13th October 2015, game build: 53,850
Restricted time: 9 m, 29 s

Guild: Autistic Roleplayers [rP]

Participants:
Elementalist: Vivien Van Hammes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFq6Cg58jXE
Warrior: Marcelin Van Hammes – No Video
Engineer: Amber Van Hammes – No Video

The problem with basically everything they do is:
“We, the developers, think ‘enter trait/content/class/skill/item here’ is ‘bad/OP/imbalanced/no fun/overhyped’ so we introduce the new: ‘enter overhyped hyperinohype of hypeness here’. Dear player, you have 2 options now: Jump on the hypetrain and love it!!!11!eleven, or get rekt m8.”

I know I exaggerate a bit, but so far Anet has taken sooo much fun/useful stuff away (e.g. perma-vigor on guard, then perma-vigor on nearly every other class that had it but not on ele. Then 50% less vigor effectivity. And to create less build diversity, while the aim is usually claimed as “getting more build diversity”, let’s finally double the cooldown of the vigor trait on elementalist too) I don’t really think vigor (with halved effectivity) was too OP but I only played ele for 1k hrs in pvp+pve so what do I know.. Next point: Thief. Once a fun and useful class.. let’s nerf the dmg! Warrior is a class that is easy to play, and does quite high dmg while having the highest base HP, OP heal, an opportunity to supply 25 might, in addition with banners and EA buffing the team dps around 30-40%… “I don’t see any need to nerf anything here, let’s rather buff the personal DPS a bit!”.
And now after I’ve endured all the (im)balance patches (and let’s not mention the laggy servers) and the huuuuuuuuge amount of bugs ( I mean come on, it’s a ridiculously huge amount..) and the current state of condition cancer pvp I finally read the blogpost I’ve been waiting for: “rekt in peace dungeons and screw you if you like them!”.
Why can’t they nerf/introduce new content in a different way? Not by killing stuff that is too strong, but by helping other stuff to get equally good/interesting…

I would love a DPS-Tool added to the UI.
Maybe display bossHP, fight-timers, and average boon/cond uptime and amount..
And maybe a general Interface rework? Inventory could have some slots that are “reserved” for some weapons and armor pieces. ALL windows could use a lot more “resize-options” like making Inventory smaller than 4×4, resizeable guild-panel, maybe even hero-panel.. Having an option to go directly to the trait-tab instead of having to click 2-3 times to get there, maybe Inventory could even stay open in between cutscenes OR EVEN AN OPTION TO DEACTIVATE CUTSCENES (like having a choice at the start: [ ]cinematic mode [X]I am just here to do this as fast as possible) There are so much possibilities to improve the average dungeon-runners game experience

Thanks for your effort

Yes, that would be nice!

Thank you in advance
Out of curiosity: Will the HoT-record reset apply to all previous alltime-records, and make the ‘leaderboard’ empty again? (might be a stupid question)

Taking into consideration that you can easily do pretty much all of them on a daily basis.. I’d say most rewarding content so far? At least for speedrunners, as you can do 75-100g per day in 3-4hrs. But I don’t know how much gold SW or other event-related stuff gets you per hour/day.

Seems like I can’t leave or join partys and I can’t re-enter the Dungeon my mates and I just started…
Basically if you don’t decide to hop on the beta-hype-train ArenaNet seems to hate you nowadays Ty

And Accounts with ‘high’ AP values have a ‘decent’ exp-boost too (e.g. 21% in my case..)

That moment when wethospu gets redirected to gw2dungeons.net

To that token to gold and loot/gold from loot per path/run question: I did a spreadsheet for that with a few mates.. we can rework it and make it public if enough people care enough to fill in stuff after runs, because data of 3-4 ppl isn’t that useful..

Some other points:
Not all bosses drop the blue token-bags as far as I know (?).
Story mode gives 1 rare armor-piece per first run per character
Recipe drop-chance: concerning only people I did runs with in the last 3 years – very(!) low (like 1 recipe per 300 runs maybe?).
Trash-exp: If we do multiple trys of the same path for speedruns we get occasional level-ups though we usually don’t finish the run if we notice a time-waste early, so maybe 10-15% lvl-up per run from trash (might exclude dungeons like CM where you don’t really do anything but bosses).
Hope it was helpful, if not just ignore it

If only Maybe we’ll get such skills with the Addon
/s

You hope for more highly mobile mobs? You do realise, that if a mob moves far enough to be out of lava font’s AoE any other class will have to move their “cleave” too, which will decrease your DPS too right? (Unless you are a staff elementalist who will hit with Autoattacks anyways again)

kek

/15char

Or make them similar to the NPCs in TA Aetherpath, they don’t kitten your kitten up as much as the ones in Arah and AC but still manage quite well to tell their fascinating story to the players..

Quinny will explain the laser part to you
Uhm that was actually one of our more messed up Destroyer kills..
You have around 20 seconds once you are on that Platform, and we usually take 15-20secs to kill him (this one was 18/19-ish I guess). Long story short: There was no try where we did not kill him first try

Yes it would, but we were champ-loot-hyped Ty we hope so too

Hey

Crucible of Eternity – Path 3 (Trio)
17th September 2015, game build: 53,120
Restricted time: 11 m, 14 s
(It could be 11:13 though, if the timer gets corrected, but we’ll leave that to the jury)

Guild: Autistic Roleplayers [rP]

Participants:
Elementalist | Vivien Van Hammes – https://youtu.be/yWZQZxOmpBA
Thief | Quinny Van Hammes – No Video
Warrior | Keru Hinode – No Video

I had some connection issues that night, but we wanted to get this out before the weekend, hope it’s okay.
I wasn’t entirely sure if it is allowed to swap out a “living” Rocky for FGS, but as I don’t use the FGS before the glyph would be off cooldown anyways it should be okay I guess? (I would appreciate a jury statement on this for future runs.)

Greetings and have a nice weekend!

Hey guys, I don’t know if this is the right place or if it has already been posted, but I’ve noticed an Internal Cooldown Bug on the Arcana Trait Arcane Abatement (at least I’d call it a bug..).

I made a video to show you what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ95IAzkxMc

Basically the trait triggers 2 times instead of 1 if you stay in place while taking falling damage, though the blast finisher should have an internal cooldown of 5 seconds.

Thanks for the advice Miku!

Hey guys,
first I’d like to thank you all for the warm welcome to the record community

Yes, I click skills occasionally

As you might have noticed it’s our first ever attempt on submitting anything to the leaderboard and our opinion is pretty much the same as Zui’s (see above, btw thank you very much for that jury-worthy post <3).

And that guild-name thing: We absolutely DON’T mean to insult anyone with it, and why would anyone feel offended by this guildname? I mean there is nothing wrong with being an autist, and if you want to be roleplaying in an MMO you can go ahead and do so imo.. So you basically misinterpret it as an insult because of YOUR opinion towards autists and/or roleplayers. I hope I explained it in a way that was not offensive and understandable..

Caudecus’ Manor – Story
10th August 2015, game build 51,547
Restricted time: 5 m, 05 s

Guild(s): Autistic Roleplayers [rP], Almost Sophisticated [geek]

Participants:
Elementalist | Vivien Van Hammes – http://youtu.be/PXjg15h3P9U
Elementalist | Alice Van Hammes – No Video
Elementalist | Rina El Sherbini – No Video