Guild Wars 2

I was actually talking to my friend after we beat Zhaitan a few weeks ago how disappointing of a battle it was and that it should have tried to somehow copy ‘Shadow of the Colossus’. I would absolutely LOVE a sort of puzzle where you actually climb the dragon and fight ON it rather than just staying way back and shooting cannons at it until it dies.

What are you talking about when you refer to skills glitching out? Never once has a skill not worked for me during this event. There are traps and winds that you have to avoid, so maybe you’re confusing it with those?

This map gives me cancer.

But seriously, please, remove it.

I’ve played LoL on and off with friends, and I can tell you that it is a MUCH better designed game for one simple fact:

Balance.

You want to know why Guild Wars 2 PvP is a complete joke right now? It’s because there are about 3-4 builds that are so SIGNIFICANTLY better than everything else, that it’s not worth playing anything else unless if you want to die a lot.

Furthermore, have you watched the pro games? Trying to figure out what is going on in Guild Wars 2 is nigh impossible. It’s just an incomprehensible mess and isn’t fun to watch at all. In DOTA2 and LoL you can determine what is going on easily, and there is a huge amount of strategy involved in everything. You need to anticipate your enemy’s movements, you need to be able to scout out their locations, and so many other things that you won’t really get if you only play with the idiot bots.

I will admit that GW2 PvP is fun, but it feels like the devs are just changing things for the sake of changing things like Immobilization stacking… Who was asking for that? They also nerf some abilities so hard that they are worthless, and instead of restoring them to its previous state, where it was hardly that strong to begin with, they instead try to do some really complex and convoluted way to fix it. I just don’t understand what they are doing here… Not to mention, this game barely EVER receives balance patches.

But hey, why balance or focus on PvP when you can make significantly more money in PvE by adding worthless cosmetic items to the store? It’s annoying, but from a business standpoint, I understand why PvP is hardly focused on.

Bucket Lips.5017:

Kagato.4061:

I’m getting so sick and tired of being steamrolled… I think this is our fifth week in a row of getting massacred by servers that just outnumber us so significantly that no matter what we do, we’ll just get stomped.

FA please be gentle, we’re still a bit sore from the beating we took last week…

We know the feeling bro, FA was stomped week after week after week in Tier 1. All I can say is keep fighting hard and don’t give up. The worst thing a server can lose is it’s confidence and wiliness to fight.

Don’t give up? We don’t need to give up, you already won. There’s nothing left to give up, you’ve taken it all.

I’m done with this week at any rate, I’ll let the other poor members of my server attempt to do something.

To the steamrolling servers commenting here claiming that it’s about the fight, and not the points – go away. You win constantly, so you never have people leaving the borderlands. When it becomes difficult to even muster up a force of 20 people in Eternal Battleground, and then it immediately gets rolled by the enemy zerg, that isn’t fun. The only thing we can even do is make small groups to take camps, MAYBE take a tower if we can do it fast enough without the mega-zerg noticing.

Try joining a server that has been getting stomped for four weeks in a row, and then come back here, and we’ll see if you’re singing the same tune.

I’m getting so sick and tired of being steamrolled… I think this is our fifth week in a row of getting massacred by servers that just outnumber us so significantly that no matter what we do, we’ll just get stomped.

FA please be gentle, we’re still a bit sore from the beating we took last week…

Delryn.7235:

To me the TP is the #1 problem with this game (almost tied with WP).

Right now this game has a lot of really obvious problems and flaws, however removing the TP from the game would almost completely fix most of the major flaws the game has.

It’d solve the issue of empty maps, people would swarm back to maps to get wood, ores, bloods, fangs etc. This would mean people would also be playing the game more.

It would suddenly make almost all loot valuable, even blues and greens since you wouldn’t be able to just buy them for scrap change. More importantly you wouldn’t be able to just buy the exotic or rares at will, making those higher tier armors even more valuable.

Chests, champ drops, moldy bags, etc would all become very valuable again.

Getting a legendary would actually be the sign of dedication and hard work (with a bit of luck) instead of the sign of someone willing to spend a lot of money.

Runes and Sigils would be extremely rare and valuable. Major runes/sigils would be a big part of people’s builds since finding a complete set of the very rare Superior would be a true feat.

The list goes on and on and on, sadly though I have absolutely no hopes or expectations of this ever happening in GW2.

So… yeah.

Either they remove the TP and fix 75% of the game’s major flaws, or they work like mad men to produce an insane amount of new items, armors, weapons to keep the game rewarding and interesting, or the game dies.

If this were to happen, this game would literally become Grind Wars 2. It’s already grindy now WITH the TP, but if it were removed, the amount of time and dedication needed to get anything would increase tenfold, and in the end, why would ANYONE want to spend that much time in a game?

Well, it was fun getting first for once. I don’t look forward to getting crushed again.

hihey.1075:

infantrydiv.1620:

If you are having trouble being called a noob, perhaps the internet isn’t right for you.

I’m not having any kind of problem – I like winning, and their QQs only please me. But so far I’ve met more complainers here than in any other game. And believe me when I say I have played a LOT of games competitively.

That is kind of odd. I run into one person who whines occasionally, but most of the time I just block them and move on.

I remember one time this mesmer actually whispered me and was cussing me out, and then when I blocked/reported them, they made an alt to CONTINUE to cuss me out. That is freaking dedication right there. Of course, he might have been provoked to do that because I danced on his corpse after I killed him, since he was being a jerk.

Some people just take this game way too seriously and need a chill pill.

Vanthian.9267:

I just like the thread title.

Is it that sad that I tried to find a hidden message in the post somewhere?

No one just makes sure that every word in the title starts with a T and makes sure to capitalize them all!

1. Make story mode dungeons solo-able and make them part of the main questline. The rewards for doing the story mode of these dungeons are abysmal anyway, so I doubt anyone will truly care. Plus it lets you catch up with the Destiny’s Edge, and not have to worry about other group members wanting to skip scenes you haven’t seen before.

2. Permanent Content. I really dislike how much temporary stuff is released every month. If you played the game on released and quit, then it’s almost exactly the same game as last time. what a disappointment. Plus, I kind of want them to go the WoW route of taking their time with updates. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I’d rather they take 2-3 months to create a really big content patch, rather than releasing these tiny patches constantly.

3. MORE PVP MODES. Do I even need to say more? Conquest mode is so boring now. Even when Battlegrounds were first released in WoW, they came in two flavors. Add a CTF mode, an Arena mode where you only have 1 life per round, ANYTHING to make SPvP interesting again!

4. Nerf conditions in PvP, buff conditions in PvE. As of now, Conditions and especially Necromancers in particular are AMAZING in PvP. I won’t go so far as to claim that they are broken, but they are too strong for their abilities. On the other end of the spectrum, conditions are worthless in PvE, so there needs to be some fixing for it there.

5. Player Housing! Just please, for the love of God, don’t make it cost an arm and a leg to craft it or buy it or whatever they decide to implement.

It’s all right friend, just do the Halloween dailies. You don’t have to do the stomp one to get the meta.

Malediktus.9250:

You know clocktower takes like 10 tries at most. Its not the hardest JP in the game for sure.

I’m genuinely curious, what would you consider to be the hardest JP in the game?

This is a fantastic idea.

I agree with this. “Achievements” should be renamed “Requirements” if this is how events are going to be from now on. Killing so many bad guys or opening so many bags is hardly worth calling an achievement anyway.

The boss just has too much health. He’s not hard at all, he’s just a complete bore to fight.

I like the fact that they are blue mists, it does make it easier.

What I don’t like is:

1. The scoring system – it’s absolutely pointless other than to brag to others that you’ve beaten it so and so times. First place doesn’t even get a reward, and it just makes it take longer to get to the puzzle. Why was this even added?

2. Unable to play with friends now. This is an issue with all activities, but I remember having a blast racing my friend to the top, and now we can’t join the same server anymore. Why is it like this? Why can’t I play with my friends?

3. Only 5 people. One of the most fun things was the social interaction from last year – the blue mists got rid of the issue regarding Norns and Charr, so why in the world did they reduce the amount of people jumping through the puzzle? It’s not as fun with so few people.

With that being said, I love the challenge of the puzzle, but it’s just annoying that most of the changes based around it kind of suck.

I suppose the more “honorable” thing to do would be to allow my teammates to die then? I agree with others, you sound absolutely ridiculous.

Even with the proposed changes to allow the defensive stats to defend against it, do you not realize how ridiculously overpowered this would make conditions? The only way I’d agree to this is if the base damage of all conditions were cut in half.

An hour might be too long. Make it a half hour. The race to accomplish something will be quite thrilling, it would be a lot of fun.

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It’s kind of sad how many people are thinking this is a genuine suggestion.

Still have another 4 days of being ridiculously outnumbered ahead of us, oh joy. Dragonbrand, I love you and all, but it’s no fun fighting you when you just outnumber us 2 to 1, maybe even 3 to 1 in some cases. I hope we drop out of this tier this week, because we just can’t compete.

It’s threads like these that make camping the JP so rewarding.

I initially didn’t mind it, but it gets on my nerves when I’m on my mesmer, and I see a huge stack of people waiting below for me or some other mesmer to complete the puzzle so they can get ported up. Just do the puzzle, it’s not hard. I’ve just started to ignore pleas for ports when I’m up there because it’s a waste of my time.

The only thing I dislike is that some of the secret areas have ridiculous jumps you need to perform, you seriously need to be pixel perfect to perform them correctly. Also, there are too many areas that look like they are leading you somewhere, but it’s just a dead end, and the shovel is freaking worthless – I found only one spot where I was able to dig up about 30~ baubles, and that’s it.

The boss was actually pretty hard at first until I noticed its patterns, and then it got much easier.

Overall, I’d definitely say this is one of the best updates since the Halloween. I’ll be sad to see this go.

Figures that the first fun thing to be put into the game in ages would be hated. How about we remove anything deemed childish and immature so we don’t break people’s precious immersion.

You know, you aren’t automatically going to be attacked when you enter the JP. There are a LOT of people who won’t fight unless if you make the first move like myself. If it’s being camped, just come back at a different time – if you’re going for the legendary, then you’re bound to have a HUGE amount of time on your hands.

I think the chest shouldn’t have badges of honor, that would fix the problem. Then people who want the gift of ‘BATTLE’ would actually have to battle for it.

Can Crystal Desert be red for one week? Please?

… Pretty please?

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I completely agree. This ability seems to work only when it wants to. If the terrain is even a bit bumpy, then you’re out of luck. Sometimes it spawns the clone, but it doesn’t charge like it’s supposed to like you said.

This ability makes me want to rip my hair out.

You fought one Mesmer for 13 minutes – I have no idea why you would waste your time doing that by the way – and so you claim all Mesmers are overpowered based on that alone?

Not to mention you have some nice tact, telling someone else to “Learn to play” when the obvious issue is that you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.

Thankfully I’m not an idiot, and I won’t judgmentally think all Necromancers are idiots based on you alone.

Tybalt was definitely the best mentor. I was also pretty down when he died. Can’t say I felt the same for any of the other mentors.

Zeefa.3915:

For goodness sake… keep PvP and PvE seperate. Please.

Too late, there’s WvW.

Oozo.7856:

Kagato.4061:

I’ll give you guys all a helpful tip:

If you have a crap ton of confusion stacked on you, don’t attack.

And don’t defend either. Don’t heal, don’t dodge roll (if you have a trait on dodge). Just don’t do anything.

How does that work out for you when you have a thief on you as well?

Well, I generally don’t engage in battles when it’s me vs two other people, especially when it’s a Mesmer and Thief, haha.

Confusion isn’t THAT bad. Yeah, it’s insanely annoying to deal with, but assuming you have good awareness, you’ll know when you have in excess of three stacks of it on you. Trust me, maintaining anything above 6~ stacks isn’t an easy task for a Mesmer, and they’ll be sacrificing a lot of their power in order to do it.

I’ll give you guys all a helpful tip:

If you have a crap ton of confusion stacked on you, don’t attack.

mypupdaisy.8126:

BTW – Don’t tell me if I don’t like it become a Thief yourself. I don’t want to be a Thief and you shouldn’t have to be one just to play WvW. You can’t even freakin get from your spawn base to others because they sit out there waiting for a lone person and then 2 or three jump you. It really sucks.

Generally people say that so you’ll know how to play a thief, and then know how to counter one. Having played a thief to 80 and doing some pvp as one, I’m at least aware of how a thief likes to run around the player and I know the exact lengths of stealth – give or take a second or two due to culling. Yeah, a D/D burst thief sucks, but so does going up against any burst build sub-80, considering you don’t have the optimal stats or gear to even handle a level 80 player, you will die pretty quick without a group.

Just make sure you have the right traits to get away from a thief if they do get behind you – a teleport, something to make you invulnerable for a few seconds, ANYTHING so that they’ll blow their haste (if they use it) and waste all their initiative fruitlessly. The most important thing to have is a good reaction time, because the moment the thief appears behind you, you have about a second to react before you’re either burst to a downed state, or near death.

Lysico.4906:

Already in game..

Pick ANY of the lower Spvp games and duel away..

What else do you need?

That’s kind of true, but being able to duel with a friend in the PvE setting would be much more helpful, considering there’s considerable stat and gameplay differences between PvE and PvP in this game. It would be very nice to try out different builds to use in WvW and see what works and what doesn’t.

It’s not like a dueling feature would be detrimental to the game in any way. I’m pretty surprised there isn’t one already, and it would give my friend and I something to do while we wait in queue.

This was definitely the hardest dungeon my friend and I did when we decided to duo all of them. The snipers and bombers in particular were ridiculous.

Hands down the Clock Tower. I REALLY wish they’d add it back to the game. Put some dumb reward at the end or none at all, I don’t care – that JP was so kitten FUN. The immense challenge to get to the end, seeing if anyone makes it with you was so thrilling and exciting, and my friend and I racing to see who reaches the top first was probably one of my favorite moments playing the game.

I really wish that the Christmas JP came even close to the amount of fun I had with this one, but I was really disappointed in the end.

Outside of that one, I really like the EB JP. I’m one of those sadistic people who enjoys the fights that go on in there. Trying to solve how to get pass the enemy when they are camping it can be really fun, and then turning it around and camping them is more of a reward than the actual chest at the end. I do have a policy in there to never attack unless if I’m attacked first, that way I don’t interrupt people who just wanna get it over with and leave the battleground.

Huh, there’s a horse in that picture. So they DO exist.

I’m impressed that you managed to get to rank 29 and still haven’t decided which class you prefer to play.

Having played Mesmer, Thief, Ranger, and Elementalist, I find that I typically have the most fun playing on my Mesmer, though P/D Thief with poisons is a lot of fun to tinker around with too.

They REALLY need to balance underwater combat before they even think about adding anymore maps with water in it, and as everyone says, Ranger’s down state in water is ridiculously overpowered.

loneknight.8425:

Amurond.4590:

Cacti Eleven.9135:

Way to stay classy Stormbluff. Super classy.

first-timer I take it.

welcome to WvW!

Every server has its own share of trolls. It’s unfair to brand the whole community same as those few black sheeps. i.e. CD has a few folks who shout for mesmer at EB JP, it doesn’t mean all non-mesmers are incapable of clearing JP on his own.

A few? Every time I do the JP on my mesmer it seems like half the server shows up and asks for a port! I port up people if they at least try to do the JP, but I absolutely hate it when people just go straight to the porting point just expecting a mesmer to get them up.

@ Stormbluff and Yak’s Bend:

This week has been a lot of fun, especially after the previous week against Kaineng. Capping camps, doing the JPs, and everything else has been a blast this week! It’ll be really sad when we part ways at the reset.

Father Busho.2796:

Guild wars 2 has been out for what, more than half a year now? According to your theory some hardcore players should have the majority of titles already? What should they look forward to now when there are no more titles to get?

Though I would agree 100% with you if they added tiers to titles (similar to GW1). So you could get a low tier title relatively fast and max one with loads of time/effort spent.

Uh, yes. If you’re hardcore enough to play THAT much, then you do deserve the titles. Do you seriously think that a title should require 1,000,000 kills to get? Hell no, not even the most hardcore of players would go for that!

Furthermore, I seriously doubt most WvWers, including me, even play to get the titles. We play in WvW to just have fun, and if titles were easier to get, I doubt that it would harm the numbers in WvW at all… Especially since the players going for the titles are in for more of a grind than getting even a legendary weapon.

A lot of the human female emotes are pretty cute in my opinion.

I don’t really have much of an opinion beyond that though. I think the human male one is alright I suppose, and I really dislike the Norn female cheer, because it seems like she is boasting rather than cheering for someone else. The Norn male cheer is pretty funny, especially on the really big bulky ones.

Can’t even think of the Asura, Charr, or Sylvari emotes at the moment though, since I barely play those races.

Spend it on upgrades from quest vendors. Later on you’ll get plenty more, and if you do the daily you’ll never really run out.

Also, don’t even bother with a legendary unless if you’re masochistic.

My friend and I were just talking about this today. It just recently started happening, and it occurs almost every time we close the game now. Thankfully it isn’t anything too bad, since I just have to open task manager and end the process, but it definitely is pretty annoying.

Tumult.2578:

I really thought this was a cool game. I learned otherwise today. The personal story line cannot be completed without being in a group. Seriously? I wouldn’t recommend this game to anyone now. If ANYONE thinks this this should be a requirement, they should never try to design a game. And, if anyone says they solo’d this, they are lying.
Everyone should stop doing the storyline RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It does suck that the final quest requires a group, but to quit playing the game because of that is a bit of a overreaction.

Don’t knock it if you haven’t played it.

Just yesterday I was telling my friend how the trees were his worst enemy cause they kept blocking him when he attempted to blink away.

Nerf please.

Ayanavi.1904:

It’s also entirely possible to solo dungeons – Maybe not Citadel of Flame, though. Some dungeons have paths or mechanics that require multiple party members.

But Arah has been solo’d, I have personally solo’d CM, TA, and SE.

So duoing dungeons is definitely possible. Superior skill and teamwork can overcome a lot!

Thanks for the reply!

Is there any particular path in the three dungeons you mentioned that is easier than the other? CM was probably the hardest one for us to do, since the snipers and bombers gave us such a hard time.