Guild Wars 2

Speaking for myself, I think the season 2 algo is well done. I destroyed the first two divisions, winning by a very large amount each time.

The 3rd one is thougher: I feel like my opponents are at the same skill level as me but I’m confident I’ll reach the 4th one eventually.

I’m also pretty confident that I won’t get pass the 4th one for the same reason (my skill level), which is perfectly fine.

I’d be interested in an official response or a wiki page about this.

Totally.

I love it.

Do you support the idea of improving very small guilds ?

I would like scalable Guild Halls (i.e. a very small guild could own a very small hall).

As the guild progresses, a bigger hall could be obtained.

I think even a one-person guild should be able to enjoy the creation of a few decorations and a place of its own.

There are many solo player, couples, 3-5 friends guilds out there and I feel like we were left behind.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the huge halls of the huge guild I am in. Its just that I find it a little…impersonal/empty. When I visit it, very few players are inside.

I also find it sad that a only a few guild leaders are allowed to decorate the halls while the vast majority of the guildies are restricted from it.

Thoughts?

While I was fighting the Thaumanova Anomaly, I thought to myself that it would be so nice to let a player control a dungeon boss, against a group of players, one of these days.

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No ?

Ok maybe just as a April Fool’s day trick like SAB ?

You can start a guild with 1 person.
So imho you should be able to do tiny guild missions and have a tiny guild hall.
Even if the hall was just a small pub, it could have grown as your guild progress.
That’s how I would have liked ANet to design it.

PS. Yes, I know, its an MMO, social game, etc. etc. but I’m a solo player at heart and I love this game, so, its my opinion.

Solstace.2514:

I say NO. The whole point of getting certain items or skins is that it’s a challenge. I understand that people may have difficulty with certain tasks, but that’s what challenge is about. If it was easy, what’s the point?

While I do understand your point, in the end, it’s just another skin that very few people will wear in a month or two. So what’s the point in gating it in a such time critical/frustrating JP ? It could have been just a normal JP.

About the 10k drinks, I also find it to be a questionable “challenge” since it can simply be bought of TP by wealthy players. 2500 would have been more than enough imho.

Thank you for the tips OP !

Please consider removing the JP x 3 requirement for the Winter’s Presence Shoulders.

The lvl of difficulty involved is beyond the reach of many and the frustration it brings isn’t fun at all.

Why :

-The 30 min “PVP” zone limit. If you don’t pay attention, you can be far in the JP and suddently be kicked from it.
- The maximum player in the zone sometimes prevents you to attempt it when you’re rdy for it.
- The fact that the snowflakes disappear with a very tiny time limit. You basically have to run from start to finish (except checkpoint) giving you very little time to plan you next move.
- The fact that you take periodic dmg (you cannot stop for more than a second or you will die).
- The many obstacles (snowman that blows wind that can knock you off, boulders, red circles, exploding gifts).
- The fact that you cannot re-attempt it from the checkpoint to practice.
- The fact that you cannot use any class skill or other players help.

Don’t get me wrong, I like challenging content and I’ve completed nearly 95% of the other JP.

But in this one, I manage to reach the checkpoint about 10% of the time and so far, I always die at the blowing gifts for whatever reason. Sure, if I keep attempting it for another 500 tries, I will probably get it eventually. But…is that supposed to be fun ? Does that entertains me ? Not at all.

Sure, not every items should be easily obtainable. But I honestly think the difficulty lvl of this JP is too high to be a req in a simple holiday skin (let alone the 10k drinks and other req things).

I would suggest you put a big daily reward at the end of it for the highly skill players who succeed and have an alternate option for the skin itself.

A long time loyal player.

How do you summon Turai Ossa in a PVP match?

Thank you

Specializations

Were they fun?
I play a necro and I really enjoy the reaper. I wish the greatsword skill range would be increased by a little tho (this is a large weapon, not a dagger).

Did they Change how you play your profession in a meaningful way?
You added more utility skills but did not increase the number of slots on the skill bar. So I find myself using the same skills over and over instead of trying the news shouts. A second side skill bar option would be great.

How were the improvements to the previous Specializations? (Dragon Hunter, Tempest, Chronomancer, Reaper)
Death’s charge is definitely better now.

Feedback on new specializations, as well as any changes to the old
Please give the all the classes a reason to be invited/desirable in raids. I want groups/guilds to actually need a necros for the content (not required but at least viable).

Creatures

How is the difficulty of the new hostile mobs, and are they fun and exciting?
I found the difficulty to be just right. The creatures hit hard. Continue to improve their AI and it’ll be really fun and challenging.

World

With the Opening of two new outposts, we are adding in a bunch of new events. Are they fun?
Are the new events challenging, meaningful, and interesting?
I think they’re ok. Neutral feeling.

Do the new events bring you more into the world?
I had higher expectations for the night time. I wanted the screen to go darker, mobs to become super deadly. I wanted to fear being alone in the jungle !! But it just felt…as nothing special was happening. :/

Mastery System
How is the progression?
I think the UI is a bit confusing (the fact that you gain mastery pts but cannot actually use them before filling the “xp” bar.

How is it using the mastery abilities in the current area?
I totally enjoyed gliding !

Is the mastery system providing a meaningful area of progression?
Yes totally.

Do you care about experience and mastery points?
Absolutely. And achievements too.

Does it provide a good framework to add more masteries in the future?
Yes I hope you add more tracks in the future. In the old maps too.

Do you want to learn as many masteries over time to overcome challenges later in the future?
Yes since they might be the key for successful raids.

Stronghold PvP

Feedback on the new UI
Feedback on Stronghold itself
I played a couple of games but to be honest, I’m still kinda lost in all the new stuff there. Maybe a training ground specific for the new stuff would be nice (strategies, etc.).

Solo
I like the group content like events, dungeons, raids, guilds, etc. but what I enjoy the most is solo play/achievement progression/map completion/etc.

I would love to see group content to be doable solo or duo. Of course the reward would be a lot less interesting (ex. being able to complete a fractal solo = 1 token. 10 tokens = 1 fractal relic).

Another thing that would be totally awesome would be to be able to fill your party with NPCs (being able to choose their class too).

Previous events
On a side’s note, I would really like to be able to replay season 1 (buy with gems), gain my missing achievements, replay the marionette, Scarlet’s tower, the Quenne’s gauntlet, Super Adventure Box, etc.

I play GW2 since day 1. Keep up the good work, the new maps look incredible, I can’t wait to play HoT for real. Thank you !

I would love to see this.

@BrotherBelial

Good point.

I like secrets, hidden places, things that can be avoided if you don’t explore carefully. I also like JP and hard-to-reach places. Multi layers vertical maps are really fun to explore, imho.

What I would change : I don’t like the endless fall that kills you. I would work on a lower map just like in Silverwaste under the ship.

ANet, as always, the maps are extraordinarily beautiful and detailed. I absolutely love the vertical layers.

Great job, I cannot wait to explore more in depth with all the masteries.

Thumbs up !

^_^

Will there be a living world update next Tuesday?
Will we continue to have an update each 2 weeks until HoT is out?

Thank you

7/10

He looks manly but a bit tired.

Here’s my elem

Inkie : definitely a unique look ! Kinda scary on the battle field too. I guess it fits WvW pretty well

I wanted my mesmer Norn Atkascha to be as feminine as possible. Not an easy task for a giant woman lol

Personally I make sure to /block people being rude, on my team or not. Play as you want, the build that you’re comfortable with, do your best, have fun and that’s it. Your teamates will have to deal with it, and politely. This is a game.

Hello,

I am looking for a mesmer to help me get the Obsidian Sanctum JP, on Ehmry Bay server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you !

:)

Done !

A BIG thank you for Ayameflora.5642 (Kar Mah) and friends for helping me get this acheivement.

<3

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Jumping-Puzzle-Porting/first#post3762137

Oh….I didn’t realize that.
I thought the price was fixed based on the profession you want to give up, not the previous one.

Thank you very much for your help !

Is there a way to know what profession have been desactivated on a character ?

I have 400 in armorsmith but none of my chars has armorsmith currently activate.
I’m looking for a way to avoid paying 40 silver many times to find out.

Thanks

My advice : stop gambling and start saving. I bought mine…never saw it either at the forge nor in a drop.

Okay Thank you

I am having a hard time getting to the diving googles at the not-so-secret JP (for the diving master acheivement).

Anyone has a mesmer who can portal me up there? If so please whisper me online when you are available.

Thank you very much.

Invite me please

Hello,

I never killed Tequatl and I would really like to do so.
If any guild regularly kills it, please send me an invite, I’ll represent while in the fight.
I know the strat, just didn’t have the chance to have an organized group.

Thanks

Finally got the legendary [The Bifrost] yesterday night

Bought the precursor [The Legend] in a buy order of 706g (including 300g in real money and ~75g help from a friend).

Took me 5 months to gather everything (2 month just for the precursor money).

Congratulation to everyone who acheived their goal as well and best of luck to all the ones currently trying !

I heartily agree with that

I certainly didn’t think about reporting him. He is free to leave the group whever he feels like it.

And taking a couple of seconds to write “thks all” in the party chat before looting the chest is not what I would call “being a slow party member”.

My concern is only that ANet shouldn’t close the instance when the creator leaves. They could simply give the ownership to anyone still in it.

I would be glad if they consider this in the future.

It surely has been pointed before but this is quite frustrating…
After a 1h30 run in Arah, end chest drop, the leader (the one who started the instance) loot then leaves and my screen switch to loading screen. I didn’t have the time to loot the chest.

I don’t mind people in a hurry but I wish ANet would not kick everybody out of the instance when leader decides to leave.

I was pretty surprised to find lava in Sunny Glade, right next to the first check point