Guild Wars 2

Justin Time.7054:

Need advice for a level 72 Guardian, engaged in her Personl Story. Problem is, she lacks of an efficient long range weapon. Have three level 72 Rangers performing Personal story step by step with the Guardian and play is way easier for them because of the Longbow.
When she comes to close combat things are quicker than the Rangers, really efficient, but Guardian takes more damage, because she can’t shoot keeping at a distance and alternate locations. So. I tried the Staff, it’s a failure to me, seems really slow and uneffective. Need some suggestion on how the Guardian can survive the personal Story (i.e. there’s a Mouth of Zhaitan further on in PS that needs long range weapons to be killed).
Thanks!

You are also going to need the scepter for a couple of places in the Victory or Death personal story mission.

Friends who are now gone.

KurokawaKazuma.8641:

The precursor acquisition of the Warbringer will take a lot of time, especially for new players who enters WvW with a low rank and earning less pips than regular to full-time WvW players that are high ranked and earn more pips.
Buying the 4 parts needed for the precursor Warcry will cost a player 2450 WvW claim tickets and for the essence of annihilation 350. So in total you will be needing 2800 WvW claiming tickets. The reason it will take so much of the player’s time is because you can only earn 175 claim tickets per week. Because of this, obtaining Warcry will take 16 whole active weeks of WvW and maybe even you wont be online for a week or you don’t have much time in a week which leaves you to be unable to obtain 175 in that week… which means it could also take more than 16 weeks (4 months)!
And it could also be worse. Since the patch, the queue of WvW has been increased by a superior amount and i have read that a lot of players waiting for like an hour or 2 to play WvW and earn the pips and WvW claim tickets.
I like the look of this legendary backpack and i really want to obtain it…but i fear that after 5-6 weeks i will pretty much lose focus and ambition on this backpack due to it taking so long and move on to an other goal or spend time on something else, which i am also pretty sure i am not the only one who will quit grinding for the backpack after quite some time.
I have crafted Ad Iinfinitum some time ago and the road to getting those fractal pages wasn’t so pleasant, but that took 37 days for me (28 days for people who did 100 CM daily which i didn’t do)(correct me if i am wrong) and i could stand for that… But 4 months or 16 weeks ? That is just way too much for one legendary.

Queues depend on the server and the time slot now I think. About the only one that queues on CD any more is EBG and that even depends on the time and if it is reset night.

As far as the time gated grind, I’m pretty sure Anet’s reasoning is to get people into WvW and keep them there for awhile in the hopes that they will get to where they enjoy the game mode and stay. If there wasn’t a grind; it’d be nothing more than a faster revolving door of come in, get the shiny & then leave.

Legendaries are about not about instant gratification. They are meant to be a long term goal. My legendary weapon was the end product of 3.5 years of working on and off for it. It was pretty much just an expensive, time consuming skin at that point because I was already running multiple ascended weapons.

atheria.2837:

Jaina Ashlynn.1043:

atheria.2837:

Linking isn’t a good idea, never was, never will be.

It’s not just about the queues, it’s also about server identity and ‘playing your way’.

It’s an awful system that never should have been entertained.

Linking was probably the lesser of the evils. The question is what were all of the evils. Links where at least the community sorta exists, blow up some servers and merge them or blow up all the servers & start completely over all come to mind the quickest. What other options are there beyond those and which option will anger the fewest players?

I haven’t seen a single player who is against unlinking the servers.

Not one.

That may be true, but the problem still remains of how to keep low pop servers afloat and deal with all the stacking problems if servers are unlinked.

atheria.2837:

Linking isn’t a good idea, never was, never will be.

It’s not just about the queues, it’s also about server identity and ‘playing your way’.

It’s an awful system that never should have been entertained.

Linking was probably the lesser of the evils. The question is what were all of the evils. Links where at least the community sorta exists, blow up some servers and merge them or blow up all the servers & start completely over all come to mind the quickest. What other options are there beyond those and which option will anger the fewest players?

Rashagar.8349:

Jaina Ashlynn.1043:

The game has basically always been “meta or gtfo” and it ain’t going to change. If you don’t like it, change to a meta class. If you don’t want to change then the problem is on you. Why should those that play the wanted meta classes be punished in other game modes because you want to play your way and that happens to be on an unwanted class?

Besides, anyone playing on a ranger, especially pre-druid, should be use to getting treated like they have the plague anyway.

See, for a lot of us that’s just not true. “Meta or gtfo” as you call it is a relatively recent influx, especially to WvW. If you don’t like a perceived change (influx of preachy meta zealots, for PvE we used to call them zerkle jerkers) then why would you abandon your preferred play style to be like them?

The OP has options…play his way & not get invited in which case he can either tag up or shut up & deal with no squad invite. The other option is to change the play style & run something he might not like. Did you not read the part in the original post about wanting all the typical zerg classes getting punished because he can’t play the way he wants to in WvW? If the OP can’t bother to adapt, why should the rest of the player base suffer for it? I wanted to play my way in dungeons years ago (so much for relatively recent) and guess what..class not wanted & instant kick. Instead of wanting everyone punished for not playing my way, I learned a different class & dealt with it. If the OP wants to take his ball and go home, more power to him….just don’t take my bat when you leave.

The game has basically always been “meta or gtfo” and it ain’t going to change. If you don’t like it, change to a meta class. If you don’t want to change then the problem is on you. Why should those that play the wanted meta classes be punished in other game modes because you want to play your way and that happens to be on an unwanted class?

Besides, anyone playing on a ranger, especially pre-druid, should be use to getting treated like they have the plague anyway.

CD isn’t running much on queues now either and it is mostly EBG; at least when I was on anyway.

Slave servers haven’t seen any glicko since the links started. How would you set their glicko besides putting it where it last was before the links? AR was a low population mess before the links and it’d go back to just like it was if unlinked. Nothing like logging in to find your color was wiped off of the maps and had been ticking that way for hours. I doubt the new influx would stay long once they got a dose of constant outnumbered blobbed down. Out of those that did stay, most are probably going to leave once they get their shiny.

Rashagar.8349:

Jaina Ashlynn.1043:

Option 1 -> listen to Hendrix, Santana, Clapton, Stevie Ray & B.B. King

Option 2 -> listen to a somebody scream & curse at people

Hello iTunes, good bye TS.

In a stunning display of my own brain being left on autopilot, when i read option 1 my first thought was “they’re weighing in on this topic???”

Decaf does that kinda thing to me. Guess I should have flagged that as my guitar/blues playlist.

Option 1 → listen to Hendrix, Santana, Clapton, Stevie Ray & B.B. King

Option 2 → listen to a somebody scream & curse at people

Hello iTunes, good bye TS.

Straegen.2938:

Now that so many are in full PvD mode, WvW is just a farm mode now. I enjoy seeing the new faces but any semblance of defense is seemingly gone. WvW is one dimensional now more than ever. Typically commanders avoid outright fights and often happily leave structures undefended for PPT flipping later.

Maybe others enjoy this style more than I but I would rather have fewer dedicated players than mobs just farming paper. Can there be something in between?

Got into EBG a couple nights ago, didn’t recognize any commanders or their guild tags and it was an unorganized mess. Moved over to the enemy bl, recognized the tag and then spent the evening getting into fights with both of the other servers. I never would have thought I’d seen the day of ending up in 3 way fights in Bay, Hills or the enemy garrison outside of reset.

Rasimir.6239:

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

MadBomber.3719:

sorry man 360 hours in 5 years is not a lot…

I’ve been playing games for 25 yrs now 500 hrs for me in wvw and I’ve mastered 99% of the game mode, telling me I need to spend another 1500 hrs is ridiculous when I’ve already mastered it after about 50 hrs.

You don’t have to spend any time in wvw if you don’t like to. The rewards aren’t meant as a sign of mastery. They are meant as an extra for people who play for the fun of it.

What would be gained for either ANet, the game mode, or the community you are playing in/with if you only play to grab the shinies via the most bearable (for you) route, then bow out again?

Disclaimer: I play wvw only casually, mostly with friends and guildies because I enjoy playing with them, which has brought me to roughly 650 ranks on my main account. I’m sure I’ll eventually get my hands on some goodies I’d like to have (there’s one of the mistforge hero’s weapon skins I’ve had my eye on ever since I didn’t have enough tickets to get it during the last wvw season), but if what I want costs more than I gain by playing and enjoying myself, then I’ll just do without it.

This is pretty much my view on it. It’s not like the rewards are that big of a deal for me anyway. I already run full ascended on the 3 characters I typically run in WvW and the skins are ok i guess. I enjoy running with some of the commanders. I’ve met some great people some of whom were former enemies (had a nice convo with somebody on GoM right before a relink talking about the good old days of AR v GoM). Heck I’ve even gotten to play whack-a-guildie after moving servers and thanks to the links.

Azukas.1426:

Friday should see some unlinking of servers

Assuming they unlink; where will they set the glicko for the slave servers since they haven’t gotten anything since being linked? Be interesting to see how many move considering Anet did the server loyalty thing before rewards kicked in too.

I suppose it depends on what you are planning on doing for end game. Closest thing I do to end game is WvW and I generally use staff & great-sword. I also drag around a sword, shield, and scepter. I tried the hammer and focus but just didn’t care for them.

[/quote]
Americans do not speak English, they speak a kittenised version of English.[/quote]

Very true, they speak a very perverted heretical form of English. Just to name a few -
their inability to spell over the years caused them to alter the spelling of some English words (i.e. color instead of colour). They also don’t have a posh accent like a true English speaking lady or gentleman, and instead sound like some street kittens.

It’s blasphemy and punishable by the Gods to call it English[/quote]

Let me guess…you are a little peeved because mum forgot to change your nappy and give you bangers and mash before putting you in the pram?

I sub to a game where your max gear is RNG….far worse than minipets.

Dungeons were taken out behind the barn & put out of their misery. The team is gone & Anet has decided to force feed players raids & fractals.

Adding poi’s & vistas to WvW tokens defeats the purpose of (grenth forbid) world completion for legendaries. They would also have to find a way so that PvE only players can get the GoB without ever setting foot in WvW. (I can see the unruly mob with burning torches & pitchforks if they don’t.)

Since I dislike the way the game is going/has gone; I spend far more time playing something else I don’t really like the combat of to play PvE and I pay a sub to do it. As far as GW2 goes..B.B. King has a song for it….“The Thrill is Gone”. If you will excuse me…I have to go see why the Jawas are putting my speeder up on blocks.

Twilight → Ebon Vanguard GS
Kudzu → Ebon Vanguard LB

I changed them from far more common legendary skins to something I almost never see. The Vanguard skins seem to fit my main better then the legendary ones. I do still use the Twilight skin on a couple other characters that don’t see near as much action as my main.

Haleydawn.3764:

Ryou.2398:

I meant slightly.

Legendaries are not hard to get, all it requires is patience.

Twilight was my on & off project for about 3-3.5 years. The last thing was the precursor that I bought after farming SW everyday for 4 months.

Max Durak.1358:

I vote for adding mounts but only as exclusive Gem store items, which you can buy for a comepletely new currency obtainable only with real money. Because fashion wars hamsters should suffer. And fashion wars is the only reason ppl cry for mounts.

Yup, just more visual clutter trash not needed and Anet does have a thing for creating flashy visual trash.

Anyone know if Julie Lawless still plays?

As somebody that only runs Teq with the Fluffy Panic alliance, I approve of this post. Bring back Tiny Blue.

It’s fine the way it is. If you really want Twilight bad enough, you’ll put on the big people armor and get it done. At one point you had to do map out all of the WvW zones like you do in PvE to get world comp so it could be worse.

keenedge.9675:

Jaina Ashlynn.1043:

gaming nerd score card.

+1 for nerd score card – LOL

Thanks for the post, very helpful.

Nerd score card was too good to pass up, especially since I swore I’d never achieve point grind (ironic because I do have giant slayer and that is a grind).

Once I learned the tells for their attacks, the ones in Diessa and Hinterlands got to where I could solo them. For me it was easiest on an axe/sword berserker running mostly signets. Zerker weaps and Marauder armor to give a little extra cushion for missing a dodge or block. I think the trinkets were soldier’s for amulet & back piece; zerker for the rest. If you want; I can post the set up I found worked best for me.

Naegling, Diessa Plateau → giant spawns every 20 min
Hidden Ourobon, Harathi Hinterlands → Kol Skullsmasher
Toxal Bog, Brisban Wilds → U.N.I.T event → can scale to spawn 4
Drytop → legendary giant (people even run this any more?)

I spent 2 straight weekends running with a group working on giant slayer. We had left characters at Diessa & Hinterlands giants. The group split between the two & called in party when the giant spawned. Everyone not at the called spawn swapped to the alt parked there & then the party engaged. Ran the legendary giant maybe 4 times & the U.N.I.T. event 3 or 4 and it only had enough to scale it all the way up once.

Giant slayer is fine the way it is. No need to change anything and no; raid bosses aren’t giants and shouldn’t count towards giant slayer. Welcome to a nice little grind to boost the points on the gaming nerd score card.

Nikkinella.8254:

This is about the only response we can expect.

I was thinking of this….but crickets work too.

Having been blobbed around by SBI last week, did they really need a link? The only plus to that is I don’t think there are really a lot of peeps left on AR that WvW so they didn’t really get many. The best part is I know some of the AR peeps…and they are my guildies so we get to play whack-a-guildie. They are currently up by one >.<

All of that aside, I often think Anet uses alcohol and a blindfold along with darts and all of the server names on a wall to determine links.

Norbe.7630:

a pvp match average 15 mins, a moba match is like 30min to 1 hour
we cant do match system for that gameplay in WvW because its 5v5, we just have to tweak a little bit to that in order to match the WvW system massive player battles instead of the 24/7 non stop action on 1 server and no actions on other servers.

the downside of that is the stacked servers won’t be able to play as they like because their server is full and cant enter because off massive queues so they will forced to destack if they still want to play WvW and transfer to a medium pop one

This would hurt any guild that runs the WvW guild missions, especially if they do it at prime time to be able to get the max number of people so most can run the missions. How many guilds would actually move as a whole to another server so the members could run together? The other question is whether the overall desire to play is greater than the desire to run in WvW with their guildies. How many would go ahead and transfer and potentially not play with guildies (assuming guild doesn’t move) versus just quitting the game?

zedapoc.1493:

DH in zerg busting groups…with bow and elite trap, smh.

I find it far more entertaining to time the trap to blow up people. As far as the bow goes; strictly depends on the situation. Only thing I really care about is whether or not I enjoyed the gaming session at the end of the day. Telling me or anyone else they are wrong because they don’t play like you think it should be played is nothing more than being an elitist male member. If you enjoy being nothing more than a hammer wielding, stab spamming rez bot; more power to you. I have to agree with the OP….it is boring as heck.

SloRules.3560:

Jaina Ashlynn.1043:

Well I guess I’m playing my DH wrong because I run staff/GS pretty much all the time. I do carry a hammer but hate the thing & don’t use it. I also run durability runes and not mercy runes. You are right on the armor (3.3k) and heal power (right at 600).

Acctuly you are doing it wrong by going DH.

Matter of opinion on that and I’m not the only one doing it “wrong” given the number of DH I run across. I run the elite trap because the rest of the elites are basically useless. The spear of justice is handy for getting the ones that try and get away assuming they don’t have stab or a block. I also carry, and at times use, the longbow to help pin down enemy players. There have been several times, when not running with the pack, that I needed the extra range from the bow and couldn’t use it because of core guardian.

Well I guess I’m playing my DH wrong because I run staff/GS pretty much all the time. I do carry a hammer but hate the thing & don’t use it. I also run durability runes and not mercy runes. You are right on the armor (3.3k) and heal power (right at 600).

Justine.6351:

I remember in Aion I would setup my trade window like 5sec walk from the Auction House and sell Aether Potion things for 3x the price. Would come home from work cleaned out.

I remember wandering around & seeing the gold sellers with their little signs out. It was a true wth moment followed by wishing Aion had a version of GW1’s Dhuum.

azizul.8469:

yeah.. i hope they revert back to include WvW for map completion….. missing those days…

I remember that…kinda hard to forget sneaking all the way across the enemy BL and dying in a 1v6 while getting the very last poi. That is actually the world complete that means the most. Given the state of servers now; about the only way you’d be able to finish it would be to transfer.

As for making GoB & GoE sell-able….I’d love to be able to mail the extra GoE’s I have sitting in storage to WvW peeps as a thank you for dragging me around.

Right before the link, Anvil Rock was basically the horse that needed to be taken out behind the barn and put out of its misery. The only thing missing were the tumble weeds and occasional dust cloud drifting down the street. It’s kind of hard to want to play when constantly outnumbered on all maps and there is no night crew so you log in and your color is nowhere to be seen.

After the linking thing; I at least got a free pass so to speak to check out other server communities before finally biting the bullet and leaving the server I’d been on since beta.

Orpheal.8263:

Yes, when Gold is limited, people searched for other valuable trading items like Ectos.
Was this so bad? We already have tons of other “Currencies” that could be used besides of a capped Gold.

Karma, Laurels, tons of map currencies that could be used for trading also between players, why use these just only for trades with NPCs??? Would be a waste of a currency system, when currencies are only there to be traded with stupid NPCs, if you could use them also as an alternative currency instead of Gold.

Has anybody here ever thought of the possibility of that even besides of me?
Then would become all the other tons of currencies even alot more valuable, if they could be also used as alternative currencies for trades in the TP besides of just only Gold….
I think it would be good for this game, if Gold just isnt anymore the only currency with that players should be able to pay their trades in the TP.

I’d love to be able to pass along bandit crests & other map currencies that are useless to me but needed by some of my guildies but I darn sure wouldn’t want to have to get this as a payment. As far as karma goes; I’m currently at 20.7mil & climbing and would love to be able to burn it for something I could actually use. The catch there is finding a player that needs the karma but actually has an item I need or want.

Setting the TP up to take all of this stuff would probably be a nightmare and how would you even calculate an exchange rate between all of this stuff?

I fixed the Dreamer sound right after I heard it. Game sound off and B.B. King, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton & Stevie Ray Vaughn on.

Timelord.8190:

The server linking was actually to solve the population imbalance issue. Anet stated that themself.

Alas, given how easy & often people move around, linking to balance the population is an equivalent to urinating on a burning building to put out the fire. Unfortunately this band-aid fix that doesn’t really work was at the expense of server communities.

xBrutalityx.3507:

Only game i recall doing that, which is embarrassing to admit, is maplestory. Ive never seen any complaints about forgetting their passcodes.they used 4 digit numbers for the password

Only one I’ve run across is Aion. It uses user ID & password plus up to an 8 digit numeric code at the character select screen to be able to log in. The numbers are set up as a key pad on screen that has to be mouse clicked and the numbers change position every time so there is no standard pattern.

ArchonWing.9480:

I would suggest farming karma and doing even heavy places. Organized Cursed Shore is a good idea, EOTM (if possible), and HoT maps should be alright.

Karma boost consumables also will help. Here’s some of the cheap ones:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scoop_of_Mintberry_Swirl_Ice_Cream
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Peppermint_Oil

If you do go EoTM; make sure you activate the Gift of Battle reward track. It will give obby shards and in the end GoB assuming you are working on a legendary. You can also get obby shards from the Silverwastes chests but that is far from efficient.

Jerry CCH.9816:

Anet wvw team
plz solve this

I saw a pic like that every morning for months leading up to server linking. The fact that T1 is getting a dose of that cheers me to no end. Here’s your fix: transfer or quit.

Great…no way to even slow down the screaming PPT horde that rolls up, drops 4 catas & 2 shield gens. Let me know when it is fixed by sending a mail to:

Jaina C/O Master Satiele Shan
Jedi Temple, Tython
Core Worlds Sector

RedBaron.6058:

ANet need to realize that Commanders (with a commander tag) provide a valuable service to the company and to the community.

Locking the Commander tag behind 300 gold excludes automatically a lot of good players that will never invest 300 gold to buy a tag to provide a service to ANet and the community.

I understand that the Commander tag brings a lot of responsibility and easily obtainable tags could disrupt the game due to abuse.

What I propose is to have 2 ways of acquiring the Commanders Tag:

1. The present one, locked behind 300 gold + 250 WvW badges;
2. A new one, locked behind a kind of legendary quest including the following: Full map exploration, all dungeons done, all raids done, all fractals done up to XX level, all open world bosses done, PvP rank XX, completed personal story up to the last available chapter, 3 crafting professions up to 500 and WvW rank corresponding to all WvW skills maxed out.

With this proposed system, ANet and the community will get a lot of new experienced Commanders and will be a win-win situation for everyone.

Thanks.

You complain about the tag being locked behind 300g and then turn around and want to lock it behind even more stuff…makes no sense.

DeanBB.4268:

Next up: My first precursor?

You never know. My precursor came from the King Jalis Refuge jp in Snowden Drifts.

Server selection only matters if you plan on doing WvW. For PvE land, the game uses mega server so it drops people from any and every NA server together in order to fill a map.

Amaimon.7823:

Lyp Sao.1375:

vote for option
[x] disable big gliders and big wings

[X] Normalize people’s glider
[X] Disable people’s Backpacks

These are my requested settings. (By normalize it means everyone else will appear to have the basic glider)

You can add disable all character auras to the list too. Anet seems to get a thrill out of trying to see how much visual clutter they can add to the game.

As a skill clickin’, loot stickin’ scrub guardian, all I can say is big boy armor…..you should put that on. Seriously though, if you are making that kind of coin selling raids, why even bother with WvW at all?

GrahamW.5397:

Thustlewhumber.7416:

Remove the transfer fee temporarily, open all the servers, and let the game settle itself naturally.

No one should have to explain why this is not only a terrible idea but possibly the worst thing anet could do right now.

I read the “open all servers” and my first thought was “Hey, let’s put 6 bullets in the pistol and then play Russian Roulette.”

They do seem to drop less frequently than bloodstone dust & dragonite. I’ve gotten as many as 25 from jump puzzle chests and you might also look into Silverwastes chest runs as a source.

I took a 6 month break and didn’t log in at all when I got bored of the game .As it is now, I log in, catch the daily reward & log back out as I don’t particularly care for the direction the game has gone/is going and it is no longer entertaining for me. The ranger has traded her longbow for a sniper rifle and the guardian wields a lightsaber instead of a sword.

Started working on it…thanks for bringing the block/condi blob from WvW to PvE. Guess the zerker ranger gets tossed into permanent retirement. Not much in the way of “personal story” when you have to round up a group to get through it.

Rewards from jump puzzles are an RNG thing. The one and only precursor I’ve gotten was from the jump puzzle in Snowden Drifts (after 6,480hr played).