Guild Wars 2

So do I have to die through this episode like the last one?

I expected more elitist braggers calling me a noob and telling everyone how easy it was and that they never died. Seriously its impossible to even dodge Caudecus or the Jade Armor in his small circle room. You have to eat it and the squishy classes just cant do that. Thx for the links, I will take a look at it.

Seriously a few more of my chars like my Revenant or Thief died like 30 times. Is it supposed to be fun? Yeah my Power necro with maxed vitality didnt die once, but the whole story dungeon is way to hard and its more frustrating then challenging. Those Veteran Jade Armors and Caudecus himself hit like trucks and its almost impossible to avoid them.

Whats is so exciting on those stupid mini events`?

really? Is that new for legend shortbow only?

Ok I know that thiefs can use the shortbow to get longer invisibilty but thats it.
Who is even using shortbow for anything else? Shortbow is pretty weak and people making the legendary shortbow just do it for the looks. Is there any metabuild that requires shortbow? I almost never see a ranger using a shortbow. Besides the fact that you still cant choose viper stats for legendaries.

Power Necro with GS / Axe + Focus and power, vitality & ferocity gear. Build must have 50% crit in shroud and 50% through vulnerability = 100 %. Try it out, it rocks. Take the shout rise for tanking.

We used to have a 10-20 % chance to get ascended weapons or armor in the daily mid and high level chests. Is it nerfed now? If it is nerfed there is no reason to do fraktals anymore.

Wiki can be updated by anyone just go there and change it.

Can someone give me an updated Dhumfire condi build for raid? Scepter / dagger + Staff? Got full asc viper set with weapons and viper amulet + sinister rings.

Why? What change makes power nekro viable again?

Raids are made for a small portion of the playerbase and it will backfire soon.

WendyB.1650:

Well they supposedly fixed this, but Not good enough. Doing AB today 3 commanders on map. Getting all the events done at Tier 3. Then the pop up comes, This map has to few people do you wish to volunteer to move maps. Well as one who did Dragon Stand a couple of times and had that come up and ignored it only to have the map close as we were fighting and Winning against Mordremoth. I said yes. It should have put me in a map that had SOMETHING. No instead a T0 map with not a commander or other person to be found. HOW IS THIS A BETTER MORE POPULATED MAP!!!!!

I really have been trying to like the new content, but really I have no fun doing it. It is like pulling teeth to do it and then when I finally try to get further on achievements or anything. Things like this happen.

The worst thing is that you loose all your participation % for the map if you choose to switch maps. If you stay you will get ported out in 1 hour. Happend to me a few times in DS in front of Modremoth…..

Sorry, Im not excited for more wiping in raids and Im not an elitist who clears the raid wing in a few hours. I dont like to grind pvp season2.

I completed HOT maps with my 9 classes and played through the story 9 times with all achievements.
I really dont want to grind all the collections left.

When are we getting new maps and the continuation of the Living Story ? HOT Story was really short)

When are we getting new Tyria masteries? Im sitting with 14 Tyria Mastery points left after completing 163 masteries. (What about the pact commander tag for masteries?)

Where are the WvW or Dungeon improvements to keep us motivated?

Im considering to reactivate my SWTOR account since Im really bored. I have the feeling that most of the effort is made for a small group of elitists like hardcore raiders and Pvp people.
GIVE the normal players something to do. I dont mind if you release new pvp and hardcore raiding content if you dont forget the normal players. Thanks.

Some adventures are extremly hard to get silver even aftet 100 tries. They are completly unbalanced and some are really annoying. The whole concept to make it a requirement for masteries and collections is bad. It should be optional content since we bought a MMORPG and not an arcade game collection.

Im pretty bored atm. HOT is all about grinding the new maps again and again and again to finish millions of collections. Adventures are incredibley unbalanced and being forced to do them is a terrible design decision. Masteries feels like a fillers most of the time. Gliding is probably the only good mastery. And on top of that the lack of story makes it really worse.

Berserker or Condi?
I think Condi DPS is still lacking.

Anyone missing a pistol damage buff? I think pistol is the lowest damage of all ranged weapons.

Thats not the point. The gold sink wouldnt go away if the pact commander title and tag would supplement the commander tag. You still need the commander tag if you want to have the whole experience.

But I agree that the fractals doesnt have to do with pact commanders.

Why not upgrade the existing commanders tags if they obtained both with new abilties? Anet could make a combined tag worth more. A bought commander tag is actually worth the same as a mentor tag. It just proves that you obtained gold in some way. A new player can buy it for RL money.

There are definitley ways to make the new pact commander work and obtaining additional 8 mastery points after you finished all Tyria masteries is actually not that easy.

Many masteries are utterly crap and feels like fillers. A pact commander tag and title would be something useful at least.

When I first saw the mastery line “Pact Commander” I actually thought OMG they finally let us EARN the commander tag by doing the masteries instead of swapping gold in the tradepost or buying the tag for RL money.

But instead everyone who made level 80 gets a mentor tag for free . Where is the pact commander tag???

Why dont you lets us EARN the pact commander tag for 8 additional mastery points after you finished ALL Tyria masteries?

I came back to GW2 with HOT and it lost every shine again after just a few months.

Why?
- Boring very short story of HOT
- Forcing us to play completly unbalanced arcade games,the so called “adventures.”
- completley unbalanced achievements (some are easy but some require more luck then skill or exercise. This can be extremly frustrating. Like some of the “adventures”.
- time required to balance classes. It took them several months after release to finally nerf sword autoattack of revenants and buff thief damage. I mean everyone knew this since release and it took them so long???
- Legendary Journey….. I rather call it legendary grinding like almost every “collection”. Everything special you want to have is about grinding collections. You want some winterday shoulders? Drink 10k alcohol and complete 20 collections. You want to have your specialisation weapon? Complete 20 collection and subcollections by grinding every new hot map again and again and again for hundreds of hours.

Asia MMOs are nothing compared to the grinding in GW2.

I would have paid 2000 gems for ONE shared bag but Im not paying anything for 1-5 slots.

Yeah, just play metas, I wouldnt worry about xp. You should worry more about those mastery points because you have to do those stupid most annoying minigames 3000 times in order to get them all.

still bugged…. when will this be fixed?

Can we please get some huge buffs? DH seems to be underwhelming bad.

CaptainVanguard.4925:

A long time ago, there was an MMO that advertised itself out there to be “the” casual player mmo. This mmo promised it would create content that would be designed for relaxing and open social gameplay, the ability to play with friends without having to, the ability to do dungeon runs that werent frustrating or tedious, a massive world vs world vs world pvp mode that encouraged thousands to play. Huge map wide raids were also a big deal in these casual event systems designed to help casual gamers play with other casual gamers.

It also introduced a level based pvp system entirley seperate from its main game with an entirely class-balance based focus on that pvp system.

That game also had a decent roleplaying community on at least 2 major servers prior to the introduction of mega-servers and a number of other new additions to the game.

It also promised that absoleutley no content in the game would be a tedious chore.

It lied.

GW2, What ever you promised to be, you need to keep it, screw this “1%” minority that are into e-sports, and raiding 24/7 this isnt WoW just abbandon that entirley and focus on the people that “do” care about the game, and “do” care about it surviving longer than 3 months.

GW2 was the first MMO SINCE World of Warcraft I could activly play for more than just a month, I felt a certain satisfaction in exploring the world, doing random questsa t my own pace and leisure, having the options to see Tyria at my own adventuring pace.

Now, I feel like the game wants me to rush into content, get my ascended mats, aquire legendaries, 5000 acheivement points minimum and alot more content thats just locked behind farming for content so that an kitten group of stowaways from other MMO’s can have their moment to shine.

Can we please, PLEASE go back to what MADE GW2 special in the first place.

Going forward, GW2 needs to abbandon this “challenging group content” kitten and “e-sport pvp ladder” system and just focus on what MADE GW2 special.

Its a game, people can play at their own leisure for fun, with nothing overly complicated about that at all.

Season 2 did this ALOT better than HoT did.

Going into Season 3 and future expansions, I would seriously hope A-net goes BACK to what made the games CORE gameplay special.

I want a game that isnt just another WoW clone, dont become another wow clone, A-net.

I completly support your post. Grindwars 2 seems to go the wrong way. 10k drinks for a shoulder skin? Seriously? Hardcore Raids? Seriously? Now we are forced to do PvP too. If you ever want to have those shiny new legendaries. I bought HOT after I quitted GW2 and now Im about to quit again.

Anet needs to fix the meta. Its way too hard, even harder then DS.

Let’s call the game Grindwars II.

Zaxares.5419:

I think the biggest thing ANet needs to clarify now is:

a) How long will Wintersday be here for? This gives us the ability to plan ahead and see if we can farm the drinks ourselves, or have to buy it.

b) Will the ability to progress the collection be available even after Wintersday? The ones tied to the Wintersday mini-games are obviously going to be gone, but drinks can be acquired all year round thanks to our personal Gift Trees. If the achievement becomes locked after a couple of weeks, that puts TREMENDOUS pressure on people who want the skin.

You know the gift tree gives us exaclty ONE gift per day. Each gift has a 80% chance to drop some drinks. So how many days are we going to wait to get 10k drinks?

10k is ridiculous. Even 5k or 1k is way to much. We should call the game Grindwars II

I cant even see the labyrinth when I open the map. Outside of the instance for the story I can see it.

zephyr.5293:

Still an issue.

Can someone please tell us when this is going to be fixed ?

The new trophies cant be sold or salvaged. If I want to get rid of them I have to write down the name of the trophy! Please fix it ASAP.

3 hours wasted with this fight… I encounter so many game breaking bugs and I give up now. Rifts spawing on unreachable spots. Not getting in the air. It sucks.

Thx that worked.

When did they fixed it? I finished silverwastes with my 100% map completition char and didnt get anything!

roelvanesch.2817:

But, but, but… Raids! We have 1 last chance guys!

Nobody asked for raid, if I want raids I would reactivate my Wow account.

Ah ok they changed it then? So basically only the achievements that require a different choice cant be done on first run?

So I can basically run for achievements with my alts when I drag them through the story the first time?

I recently played the living story season 2 with a few of my characters and I realised that I cant do achievement with my alts if I didnt finish the story first. Is it the same with HOT story achievements? I want to drag several of my chars through the story, do I need to finish the parts with all my characters first like in LS Season 2 in order to work on achievements?
Or can I for example finish the story with one of my characters and then work on achievements with my next characters?

GW2 is going WoW now. When I started to play GW2 never wanted to raid again. But in order to get legendaries Im now forced to raid, join a raiding guild and do PvP. I dont like it. What are you doing Arena Net? Want to copy Blizzards WoW?

Happend for me too with my 100% character. No rewards for the Silverwaste Map. Anet please fix it asap! (And give us out rewards)

So should I report the bug to get my reward?

Yeah, I just finished map with another character and got the reward. So is it a known bug? Will it be fixed? I didnt get any reward with my 100% map completition character.

Where is my map reward? Is it bugged? I didnt get anything. It’s at 100%, I found all vistas and poi.

I have a few friends I could convince to play GW2 but if I tell them to pay for the past content I dont think it will be that easy.

Thank you! You helped me!

Another question. Can I finish the map exploration achievement twice for 2 more gifts with my alt chars or am I limited to 2 legendaries.

Hello everyone, I didnt find a crafting forum so Im asking here.
I finally finished my 100% exploration achievement and got 2 gifts of exploration.

Im already on track for mastery points to get my precursors through questing.
Is the gift even needed for those “new” precurser track?

repair fixed the problem for me thx

I dont know how long I will keep playing the game. Just returned after 1 year break and it feel like grinding again.