Guild Wars 2

Posted by: Justfor.6018

This is a request I have seen since day -1: The community keeps asking for a better UI.

But HoT didn’t improve the existing UI so it begs the question:

Will the New Expansion Bring a Decent UI???

Or are GW2 players condemned to continue using one of the ugliest, nastiest, most inflexible, most impractical User Interfaces in the gaming industry?

Inquiring minds want to know and all that….

[SPOilER] LS3 Ep 6 Bloodstone Puzzle Solution

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Posted by: Justfor.6018

The Bloodstone puzzles from “Where’s Balthazar?” can be a little frustrating.

I’m posting below an easy way to get it done.

A B C
D E F
G H I

The “active” glyphs are A, B, G and I.

Throw the shards in this order:
SPOILER*H - C - I - F - C - B*

The second (final) puzzle has the same glyphs activated, you just have to find the right angle.

:)

Thanks for 9 new core mastery points

Posted by: Justfor.6018

A welcome addition indeed.

I had already given up on Nevermore because, honestly, no way on earth I was going to put myself through the garbage of the living story achievements.
I’m just not that masochist.

Now I can proceed with my Leg… maybe one day I’ll finish it.

Thanks!

Massive Lag

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Posted by: Justfor.6018

Unplayable for me at the moment.
Astronomical pings, 2 DC’s trying to do Jormag and now the client won’t connect.

If ANet cares they should replace a hamster or two, but you know them: they think the game is so cool they don’t need players.

We’re skrewed.

Fractal100 Last Boss Solo Power Mesmer S/S

Posted by: Justfor.6018

Nice!!!!!

…and my apologies on behalf of the comments above. Just a little demonstration of the toxicity levels you can find on these forums, and one of the reasons why not even ANet employees bother to post here anymore.

:)

Does anyone just have fun anymore?

Posted by: Justfor.6018

My 14 yo son decided -finally- to give GW2 a try.
He’s a gamer, like me, but he prefers FPS games like CoD and CS:GO. You know, the bang-bang pew-pew – I Kill Ye Ded kinda games. I’ve never been able to enjoy that genre.

Anyway, my son is now playing GW2 and I made a new Mesmer just to play with him.
We’re leveling up slowly (L65 rigt now) and we’re just roaming casually around Tyria, participating in Dynamic Events as we find them, doing reknown hearts if we feel like, doing mini-dungeons and jumping puzzles if we’re in the mood, etc.

We’re having a lot of fun because we’re not pressured to “use the LFG or die”; “Find the ‘right’ map or don’t get this done”; “log in 20 minutes before the event or miss it”; “Pop a tag to get more people or fail”, etc .

We’re playing at our own pace and this is what I feel we lost with HoT.

And yes, we’re having fun. I still don’t know if my son will want to continue thru HoT once he gets Gliding… let’s see.

:)

Is expansion 2 make or break for GW2?

Posted by: Justfor.6018

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:
i am using this from another post today as i do find it most fitting .

I am going to wait till after the pack comes out this time .and see how it goes . as a lot of us who got hot and got very burned over that whole deal . another new packing coming out this year . just only puts that bad taste back in some of our mouths .and giving how that all went down and has been going of late. their going to have to really bring it this time and do it so very well that even us that got that bad taste in our mouths will want to put a bow on it and tell our friends its ok to come back . but only time will tell how that goes . and for some of us no matter what they do they just will not be able to take that bad taste out of our mouths . not trying to be salty here just honest is all .

also i made the choice even tho there is a new pack going to be coming out. i for one will not be buying the pack at all . for at least 6 months to a year or so after it does come out. to see if everything’s does come out as promised unlike how hot came out and still not gotten all the legendary stuff that was to have come with it and if it does not live up to them and does fail like hot did well . then i think that answer your looking for in the end will be painfully very clear .

LOL, you just described my position.
When I pre-ordered HoT I thought it was my way of saying “thank you” for the hundreds of cool hours I spent playing GW2.
Unfortunately I dont feel the same way about HoT, and just like WARIORSCHARGEING.263 I already decided that I won’t preorder the next expansion no matter what, l and won’t buy it for a few months.

And I’m sure we’re not the only ones feeling like this.

Things I Want To See

Posted by: Justfor.6018

A decent UI
A decent UI
A decent UI!!!!

Some players were posting their time while running some dungeons solo (you can read their posts @ the “Dungeons, Raids and shait” forum.)
I was checking their videos and it saddens me to see that these top-of-the-line players still need to keep their inventory open to be able to use foods/utilities or to swap weapons and gear.

Almost 5 years and still GW2 has a UI that is a steamy pile of garbage.

Crap, crap, CRAP!

That’s all I want, a decent UI!!!!!

To Anet: Please stop the Copy/Paste

Posted by: Justfor.6018

To each his own…
I’d buy some things that are only available via Hall of Monuments:
- Sohothin
- Black Widow pet
- White Raven pet.

I’d gladly pay 1000 gems for each one of these… I don’t have GW1 and I don’t think I’ll ever buy the game. But these items are just too cool.

:)

Ascalonian Catacombs P2 record

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Thanks for the info & the link!

:)

Ascalonian Catacombs P2 record

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Impressive.

And more impressive because I’m completely useless as a Warrior (only my Revenant is more useless than my War, actually).

I’ll need to study the video in detail because there’s a lot to learn there.

I know these are n00b questions but I’d like to ask:

- what’s your gear? (armor & trinkets)
- what’s the general idea behind the changes in your build?
- and finally, what are the combos you use to hit 25 stacks of Might? (you go too fast and I can’t follow the skills you’re using).

Thanks for the cool video and gratz. Nice record.

Turn off Gliding

Posted by: Justfor.6018

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Magicienne Endormie.5182:
I am appalled at the number of persons asking us to change our habits. I’ve unlocked gliding recently and I had no idea it would screw up my jumps. So I looked it up on the Internet to see if I could just deactivate it, but in every posts I read, there were people asking us to suck it up and change the way we play.

Here’s the thing. Whether we play in ‘the right way’ or not, we shouldn’t have to change the way we play because of a lazy feature. How is it complicated to add a ‘disable glider’ option in the menu? Or to simply give us the option to rebind gliding and jumping to different keys if we wish so?

Arena.net, please do change this. Please.

You know, I tried changing my old, “hardwired” jumping habits.
I managed to complete some jumping puzzles by moving very slowly and it took me forever to finish them. Slow and annoying but doable.

Then I tried “The Floor is Lava?” adventure and boy, what a mess.
It turned out to be impossible for me to jump around the mushrooms quickly without accidentally turning on the glider.

I know posts like this one automatically trigger the “Git Gud” folks around here that will immediately jump to post things like:

“That ain’t true. I did “The Floor is Lava?” with all my 24 character despite the fact that I’m cross-eyed, left handed, slightly ret?rded and playing on my Pentium IV with a broken mouse. Ya’ll need to git gud"

How comes we have a disable “Double Tap to Evade” but we can’t have a similar option to disable the glider?

A couple of weeks ago a user of this forums mentioned that he felt Devs act arrogantly when implementing things into this game – or when considering if they should change something.

I’m beginning to feel that’s the case.

How else can you explain why Devs are so apathetic, so lethargic, so indifferent over a small QoL change that represents so much for many of us players?

What the hell does it take for Devs to take notice?

/rant

Unplayable Solo

Posted by: Justfor.6018

Well, I can say HoT brought me back to GW2… but to core Tyria, not HoT.

I’m just not good enough to play HoT – and I’m not willing to learn. Sorry, I’m a bad player.
A steep learning curve is not having fun, is “working” IMHO and it defeats my particular purpose when playing this game.

On the other hand, thanks to HoT abilities I am more capable of enjoying core GW2.
Gliding makes it easier to access those difficult PoIs and Vistas and the increased damage makes those pesky undead more bearable when I’m cruising Orr.

I can play in a relaxed manner and THAT’S EXACTLY WHAY IM LOOKING FOR.
For God’s sake, not everyone is looking for “a challenging experience”.

Also, I honestly agree with something JPicard said a few days ago:

"""But it does not matter what you or me think, feel, … everyone can’t be happy, have learned this long ago. But Arenanet earnings will show if they did right or wrong with HOT. :-)"""

Episode 4 release time?

Posted by: Justfor.6018

Captain here:
After 4 years and change of playing GW2, I can predict exactly when will we get the patch.

The patch will be made available:

At the most inconvenient time

It could be at the beginning of Reset Tequatl or, better yet, right after you find a cool map for Post-Reset Triple Trouble, complete with capable Commanders that you know can carry out the task of beating that dreaded Wurm.

It's ok to be casual

Posted by: Justfor.6018

It’s OK to equip 2 weapons just because you think your toon looks kitten with them… even if the damage is “Sub-Optimal”.
i.e: pistol/pistol thief or axe/axe warrior.
:)

Curious why more people don't PvP or WvW

Posted by: Justfor.6018

I don’t PvP or WvW because I play to relax myself. Competing against other players stresses me out.
I did try WvW 2-3 years ago. My Guild kept a small team “roaming” the WvW areas, guerrilla-style.
Basically it was running like beheaded chickens from one point to another.

When I did join the WvW zergs, I was usually left behind because I was trying to find the way to get a POI or Vista and by the time I got it, everybody else was half map away. Then I’d rush to meet them just to get ganked and on top of that, I’d need to pay the armor repairs (yep, it was back in those days).

Overall, stressing. Not my style of play.

I like to take my time to do things: check a Vista (some are breathtaking), go all the way back because maybe I forgot a node, or stopping 25 minutes in the middle of nowhere because I ran into somebody that has that awesome-looking top that maybe I have somewhere in my wardrobe and that might look great with the Whisper leggings and…. Get it?

Hopes n Dreams about Expac 2

Posted by: Justfor.6018

Very interesting ideas.

However, all I want is a decent UI.

A Decent UI

A DECENT UI!!!!!

One I can customize and eliminate the freaking minimap if I feel like, or hide all the in-game spam if I don’t want to see any notification, or one that allows me to make disappear the “OnMouseOver” skill descriptions that hide a huge portion of my screen. A User Interface that let me put the toolbars wherever I want.

That’s all I want…. a decent UI

sniff

That’s it

WvW no longer required for world completion

Posted by: Justfor.6018

I went away from GW2 for a year.

My #1 reason for leaving was the fact that I needed to participate in WvW (I loathe PvP) to achieve World Completion.

I saw this announcement by pure luck, and I’m already reinstalling GW2.

This is the “News of The Year” for me; I really really hope ANet gives this move a lot of publicity because it could bring a lot of quitters back.

:)

Inventory Window changing size alone

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Posted by: Justfor.6018

I guess it’s one of those ‘little things’ than can drive people nuts.
It’s very, very, veeeeery annoying.

>:\

Give Achievement Points for random DC's!!

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Posted by: Justfor.6018

Yes, that’s my suggestion.

The “Queensdale Curse” is back, stronger than ever.
People disconnecting left and right for no apparent reason.

Now, given how little ANet cares about this, or how utterly clueless they are about how to fix this annoying bug… why not give the players Achievement Points for the random DC’s they have to go through?

You guys (ANet) could even make it a daily!!

Just put it there right between the “Mists Defender” thingies.

:)

Ignoring the LS is making me happy

Posted by: Justfor.6018

LOL, and I thought I was a weirdo for not giving a crap about LS.
Glad to see I’m not alone there.

The one thing I really really REALLY wish is a way to remove all the announcements and in-game SPAM from the right corner of my screen.

Some times I just log in to wander around gathering resources, and I couldn’t care less if:
- the Grawl have become more aggressive
- Scarlett minions are attacking some place
- if I haven’t done “Victory or Death”
…and a huge list of etceteras.

:)

New to Dungeons and want to learn?

Posted by: Justfor.6018

I’d love to participate in this!!
What are the best EST times to do this?

Top right GO away!

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Posted by: Justfor.6018

I’m not an old GW2 player – I started playing around December – but from the beginning the un-customizable UI has been a pain.

I’d really love to hide all that top-right corner crap permanently.

However, after reading ANet’s ‘reasoning’ for not doing this, I must say I don’t have a lot of hopes… the reason they gave was incredibly lame.

I believe ANtet simply doesn’t give a kitten about this issue. They decided the UI ‘had’ to be like this, so basically it ends up in a gigantic ‘deal with it’.

Duh.

Potionmaking: How to level Artificer 1-400

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Posted by: Justfor.6018

Wicked cool guide !
Even if the price of the dusts went up, this method it’s the still the cheapest I’ve found.

Thanks to the OP.

Doing Dragons? Bring a Book!!!!

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Posted by: Justfor.6018

Wow.

Last night (Fri) I didn’t go to overflow, not once during my whole session.

At one time I finished The Shaterer and tele’d immediately to Sparkfly Fen – barely one or two minutes before Teq’s appearance… and I didn’t go to overflow!!!

Simply awesome.

/me = happy dude.

Doing Dragons? Bring a Book!!!!

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