Guild Wars 2

Waraxx.4286:

Kalagon.3120:

Oglaf.1074:

You seem to miss my point entirely.

Swing and a miss, Gilly.

If I could farm Charged Lodestones like I could any other, I would. However, you can’t. That’s why the price is out of wack.

Correction you CANNOT reasonably farm the other lodestones. I know people will talk about earth elementals for Onyx and stuff like that but ALL Lodestones do NOT have a set Drop% You could farm Earth elementals for Onyx for 1 hour and get 1, the next day you could farm for 10 hours and get 0, Because the drop rate is not SET. if it was say 1% you would see 1 every 100 kills. this is NOT the case, Lodestones are on a drop rate that that is way more complex. Imagine a dice roll from 1-5000. anytime 3567 is rolled an onyx lodestone will drop. THATS HOW STUPID this system is. It is nothing like any other MMO.

We are used to WoW and EQ where they say you need this list of items and it takes awhile to get them. Well Anet does RNG so it could quite possibly take you FOREVER to farm what you want. They expect you to have to buy some of the mats from others who have been lucky. or buy GEMS to sell for gold to get part of your items. This is now becoming known to the players and I think we can expect a massive downfall in this game like we say in SWTOR because of bad design and a refusal to change and apply fixes in time.

that post gave me cancer.

jokes aside. all MMO’s uses RNG, ALL. its been essential in games for as long as games existed. Hell, even Tetris the first game ever made was based on a RNG. I don’t know how u learned math but where i live 1% means that a certain event happens 1 out of 100 times on average and not that after 99 tries it happens. what you described with the dice was a 1/5000 chance (0.02%) and just the chance is smaller doesn’t mean its more complex system.

I did not make this post to humiliate you. but you need to check your facts when posting things. i might have misunderstood your post and if that is the case please disregard my response.

and ontopic. i think there is a problem that need to be issued and i think Anet is aware of the situation and i think they are working on it. we might see something in januari but if it isn’t in that patch we might have to wait a while for the “fix”.

Actually it is more complex then what other MMO’s use. It could be as complex as saying on Mondays from Midnight to 4 am all lodestones drop 25% more often. The truth is we dont know and A-net wont tell us. All Im saying and we have enough evidence to back it up is that lodestones are not on a traditional loot table, if the were we would not have spikes of 1 drop per 2 hours and know drops after 12 hours of farming.

And if your talking about checking facts, dont post defendin A-nets refussal to respond to this thread by saying they are aware and fix is coming when you clearly have no idea.

Oglaf.1074:

You seem to miss my point entirely.

Swing and a miss, Gilly.

If I could farm Charged Lodestones like I could any other, I would. However, you can’t. That’s why the price is out of wack.

Correction you CANNOT reasonably farm the other lodestones. I know people will talk about earth elementals for Onyx and stuff like that but ALL Lodestones do NOT have a set Drop% You could farm Earth elementals for Onyx for 1 hour and get 1, the next day you could farm for 10 hours and get 0, Because the drop rate is not SET. if it was say 1% you would see 1 every 100 kills. this is NOT the case, Lodestones are on a drop rate that that is way more complex. Imagine a dice roll from 1-5000. anytime 3567 is rolled an onyx lodestone will drop. THATS HOW STUPID this system is. It is nothing like any other MMO.

We are used to WoW and EQ where they say you need this list of items and it takes awhile to get them. Well Anet does RNG so it could quite possibly take you FOREVER to farm what you want. They expect you to have to buy some of the mats from others who have been lucky. or buy GEMS to sell for gold to get part of your items. This is now becoming known to the players and I think we can expect a massive downfall in this game like we say in SWTOR because of bad design and a refusal to change and apply fixes in time.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

did you report him? Because we do ban for that type of behavior.

We’re always working on ways to keep people from trolling and exploiting others. We recently made it so that the party leader can’t leave the group and kick everyone out without his instance being destroyed, so this is just the latest iteration in people trying to abuse other people. I will alert our programmers to this if they are already not aware.

Not saying I know what happend but what if this guy had some sort of emergency. spilt a drink on his keyboard, had a sudden case of the shiittss, or has a baby or kid that just hurt themselves. we all have lives and things happen. A-Net should not be banning players for this they should have had a better group system in place to begin with. Now the thing to do is get fix so ANYONE can be voted out of the group and the members can go find a replacement. Let the players decide if they want to wait for this guys emergencey or if they wanna just kick him from group.

I’m sure this guy coming back to his desk after his lengthy afk would say “oh well I was gone awhile”. and he would try and get it done some other time. However if he comes back and his banned for 3 days how do you think hes going to feel.

In my opinion A-net needs to let the players manage this. A-net needs to just come out with a fair and balanced grouping system, that gives the power to the players.

All lodestone farming is Crap in this game and the developers know it and refuse to do anything about it. We have not even heard a response of any plans to make these rare items farmable.

We have exotics in this game that cost 350+ lodestones which is why no-one will ever get them.

Lodestones is the most broken part of this game right now, with no end in sight

Actually ALL lodestone farming is crap, its RNG its not a flat . if it was say 10 drop you would see 1 every 10 mobs give or take a few, <—- just an example we know its not a 10%. It is not a standard 0.01% or anything like that, people have farmed elementals for 2-4 hours and got 1-2 and others have farmed for 10-14 hours and gotten ZERO.

This whole system of lodestones will KILL this game because it makes people feel they are wasting their time. They play when they are off work or off school and would like to see some progress, some chipping away at that long legendary grind or some crazy exotic that needs 350 lodestones.

This needs a fix and FAST. Holiday patchs wont keep people happy forever

Can we please do something about this. Very annoying and a form of griefing mesmers open portal on the dragon chest so players get ported farther away from the chest.

Also a victim of this game breaking bug, It has happend 3-4 times a day and usually happens with lots of players around, WvW and almost always during a dragon. After it starts I have maybe 30 seconds of play before the game crashes, and then it is a race to get in before the chest is gone. I have missed several dragon chests because of this bug. It is ruining the game.

Well to start to fix dungeons give better loot. Recently they said that now you can get exotics, they are still so rare its insane. They make it a requirement to get the following items and make it impossible to work for them.

Lodestones, cores, fragments, shards…. these items are insane as far as drop rates go. The whole item system is stupid. Lets look at an example.

Mjiolneir – Legendary hammer http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mjolnir

This costs around 800+ gold and it is exotic so it will not get upgrated status to ascended like legendary’s will. 350 Charged lodestones and no way to farm for them just plain luck.

so loot would be great to start off with in dungeons better loot also add in rare crafting mats. Increase Rare drops – (Yellow) by a Large amount this would help with the new insane amount of ecto’s people need for new items. Many people working for legendary’s have to pass up the new back pieces cause they need the ectos for the mystic clovers.

As far as dugneon mechanics well you got rid of the tank and healer so that makes it hard. Making classes that spec into certain rolls feel more like they are contributing. I play a defensive tank Warrior sword and shield, but I dont feel like a tank because I have NO TAUNT, So I have all this armor and survivability yet the boss or mob will almost on timed schedual switch to another party member and focus on them. I cant save them cause I have no abilities too. Guardians probably feel the same but they have a few more abilities to help others then warriors do.

Healers also have the same issue with no major heals in this game everything is small amounts over time, no Save the day heal on a long cool down. I dont play healer so not sure what they want.

More puzzles to solve in dungeons would be nice and it adds another dynamic to dungeons. Not all bosses have to be mobs with HP. Think Chess board in Karazan in WoW.

problem is it shouldn’t be Fractles it should be ANY DUNGEON if anything. Fractles are broken, Anet has admitted it and said a fix is coming, so until then it shouldn’t be a monthly req.

Please remove fractle req from monthly until a fix is implemented.

RumStein.6859:

Haha yeah right Lucas.
The hunt will be for the precursor, and massively increased demand for all T6 mats and lodestones will drive their prices up ridiculously.

Agreed, This is what will kill GW2 if it is not handled correctly. At the moment people are made because they are told what they need yet not given a way to get the mats for what they want. Example: LODESTONES – Players want to farm for these they want to know what they have to kill and what the drop chance is, the RNG is killing this game currently you can farm earth elementals and you might get 1 in 2 hours or 0 in 6 hours.

This needs to be a solid % chance. even if its low like 10% chance that will still take awhile but players will at least see a reason to farm for it. when they dont get these items at all over 6-8 hours of farming that causes people to hate the game and thats not fun.

Wobels.1679:

Lol banner range is huge i dropped one yesterday testing it at the weapon smith in LA an had regen up to BLTC entrance thats huge

Not true you prolly ran to the BLTC and still saw the buff on you. its a lingering buff you have to move wait, move wait,move wait about a 5 sec wait to see if the buff drops off. Its actually really small area unless you get the trait to extend it. I would actually compare it to the Necro Seals with staff its probably the same they can also increase that size with a trait. Would be better understood with a particale border effect though.

As far as the buffs Yeah the banners should loose all regen if they have there buffs changed.

I would like to suggest a few improvments to banners that I think the whole population could agree on.

1. Particle effect showing range. We need something to show our party and ourselves when we are in range of the banner its annoying that you have constantly look at your boons to see it go in and out of range. A circle particle effect – SOMETHING NEW would be nice. not the cookie cutter aoe art that casters have. let the art team come up with a warrior look based off what banner is being used.

1. increase the range, base banner is about 5 yards. improved is about 10-15 yards. both should be increased.

1. add better effects, The trait" Inspiring battle standard" adds regen to the banners when they are down. I suggest you keep the trait but change it to add an effect more inline with the type of banner.

DPS Banner -

does damage over time to any enemy in range. – low damage of course like a guardians seal damage. NO REGEN

CRIT Banner -

Lowers the crit chance of enemys in range or slows the enemy in banner range. NO REGEN

TOUGHNESS Banner -

Grants Aegis every 30-40 secs to allies in range. NO REGEN

BOON/ HEALING Banner -

Leave the Regen on this banner, ONLY.

Doing this would add some differant options with the banners and make for some more intersting warrior builds. The way they are now they are not used enough and almost all warriors save there slots for / charge, knockdowns, might buffs, and signets. I think this would also make the dead opponents of warriors happy because it would promote a better build diversity.

cant log on, only character I can log into gets DC’ed when i leave the zone hes in.

Same problem I cant leave Frostgorge sound. It would appear if you Zone at all you will DC.

I was specced Full Tank/support since launch because I’ve always been a main tank in other games. A-net took away TAUNTING so there really is no point to go tank spec. I have run so many dungeons but I really dont feel like I contribute much to the group. I cant save my friends when they are getting killed, we cant TAUNT, we cant PULL mobs. Sure I was hard to kill and the last man standing but I had to watch my friends get killed while I try and DPS as a tank. All a DPS warrior brings to the group is larger Banner radius and they add regen to the banners. We dont get Aegis like gaurdian, we dont give protection. You are just dead weight and would serve the group much more if you put out more DPS to kill the enemy faster. Until Tank spec is looked at and changed there is no reason to go anything else.

supported, should have been done from the start. bad planning

nope wish we could get some sort of response

francisling.2987:

MF is a selfish stat, no one can deny that.

Think about it this way, you are sacrificing overall group efficiency/survivability for better loot for yourself, just yourself.

And the fact that, at times that one-man standing could mean a big difference to the entire party.

Death to MF

This is a horrible idea. People will come to dungeons in FULL MF gear now hurting the group as a whole. You also dont let us inspect each other so we cant check someone to see if they are wearing good gear for clearing a dungeon.

Your balance team is moving in the wrong direction. MF is a HORRIBLE stat and has no buisness in MMO’s everytime a group wipes the question will be who is in full MF gear. So you might think just have people link there gear, that also wont work cause people will carry 2 sets with them and link the none MF set.

I say MF is fine when its attached to a buff for achieving something. WvW, make people do something extra on a boss and gain MF boost for the rest of the dungeon like kill it in a certain amount of time.

All you guys have done is create more problems for guilds and pug groups alike.

I suggest we DONT use the site. The more people complain about the LFG system or no dungeon finder in this game the faster A-net will make one if they haven’t started already. The current Frac dungeon is great with 1 flaw, the grouping is hard and with mulitple difficulties they have made a worse situation out of it. As time goes on people will spread out and it will get harder and harder to fing a group of people needing the same frac difficulty as you.

So I say keep spamming the LFG it shows the flaw and highlights it so it will get moved up development ladder faster.

Jasher.6580:

19k-25k hundred blades is okay… yet they nerfed pistol whip… I’m genuinely confused. Both root the character, both are channelled attacks, yet the guy with the heavy armour and high health gets to keep that ridiculous damage.

Confused.

Hundred blades is deadly to bad pvpers, it is easilly avoided by taking 1 step backwards. The warrior cannot move or it stops, granted good warriors will save it until you are down or rooted, thats why expert pvpers have a CC break so when that situation happens they can break and move.

seventhson.6932:

There are a couple weapons I would like to make but due to the insane lodestone requirements I wont even bother. This is a great example of the unrealistic lodestone recipe.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mjolnir

This recipe takes 350 lodestones. 100 for the gift of lightning and 250 for the recipe. Thats just nuts. I mean its a cool looking hammer but kitten thats a bit excessive, the 250 ori bars and the bolts of gossamer will take quite a while to get by itself. Something needs to be changed about this.

100% correct and this is just 1 example there are dozens of recipies like this with this dumb design, and they wonder why people go to gold sites to just buy gold, ITS TO AFFORD LODESTONES.

Skar Hand.5037:

Me and a friend have managed to farm up 6 charged lodestone between the two of us in the past 3 days. We farmed sparks after completing the Zephrys Temple. The are hard to come by, but not impossible. From what i have read and our experience 1 per hour is possible (over time…you won’t get 1 ever hour, on the hour). I also made over a gold each time we farmed it just from the huge number of greens, few golds, and Opal Shards/Crystals.

Get out there and get farming.

And if you don’t like farming….maybe a legendary isn’t for you.

Agreed but not just legendary weapons need them several Exotics take up to 350- 400 lodestones. Farming is on if they have area’s that we can farm in the wild and the drops arnt isane. Im sure some people remember mote/elemental farming in wow burning crusade it was hard work and time consuming but you could see yourself getting closer.

Will we ever get a dual spec in GW2, I play a warrior and like to go tank/support for PVE and dps for WvW. Im sure most people would agree this feature should have to be worked for. You can make it an item thats forge crafted, you can make it cost something, gold/Karma/ Gems but I think this game desperatly needs it.

So all lodestones drop from either a dungeon in about 4-5 clears you will get 1 or a 00000.1% from a certain elemental mob in the wild. Making farming these for crafting impossible. A-net NC soft failed with Aion in north america because they made the mistake in thinking we like to grind farm like the asian market. We dont mind the farming to a reasonable extent your current Drop% on most end game items is way way to high. Legendary precursors, Lodestones, BLChest. These issues need to be addressed.

Your system is pushing people to Gold buying sites because o these low drop %

Same here patcher has some issues.

we are all getting the same issue bad patcher.

I totally agree, Luck should not be a factor this only rewards those A H o l e s that exploited a broken game at launch and now control the AH on precursers. Something needs to be changed with how we aquire these. the weapons already take forever to make.

account bound so once your 400 your set

Congrats on your Sunrise. As far as the base weapon Dawn how did you get it. I have heard you put it in 4 exotic greatswords and have a small change to get dawn or twillight, is this true? or do they only drop from priest events? I think this is were A net messed up the base weapons are going insane on the AH. These should be hard to make but you should still be able to and not have to hope your lucky day is here during some event.

Same problem for me, I am at 716/717 and have all zones and BG’s completed and confirmed. sounds like a bug from the latest patch.

After reading about all the hacked accounts I figured I would go ahead an just change my PW to be safe. I sign into my account and when I go into change my PW and I put in a new one nothing happens. I tried 5 times nothing happens, Their is also no Error message or note telling me my PW is to short or to long or wrong characters or anything its like clicking submit doesnt do anything.

I have repeated these steps on IE9, Firefox, and google chrome. All with the same result. This is the same website bug they had when selling the game submit their also didn’t work. Not sure if its related to this issue but I also get a warning saying this site has no security certificate.

I just want to change my Password to prevent a hacked account.