Guild Wars 2

Same problem here. I am trying to purchase my copy of Path of Fire, but getting that error every time.

Hopefully most gaming websites and/or magazines will pick up on this. Anet got away with too much already and it is time for them to learn that they cannot ignore their customers or treat us like we do not exist.

That raven staff was in the game for more than 2 years now. Saying that you cannot create a bunch of models for legendary weapons, while making tons of models for gemstore items is completely kittened. As someone who works in 3ds Max and Maya day by day I can honestly tell you that an item like that takes a day at most to model and texture. I understand you are desperate to make money through the gemstore, but you guys need to understand that you cannot make money when your players are leaving in droves. Also – esports – LOL :P

Tobias.8632:

I thought this forum specialist report thing was supposed to be about fixing the base necro class?

Yes, reaper is looking really nice, but anyone who doesn’t buy the expansion is still going to be stuck in the land of necros sucking complete kitten.

I totally agree. What good is a decent “elite” trait line, when the base class is garbage ? I know some of you might argue the “garbage” part, but compare it to how other classes function in pve, spvp, wvw, etc.

Ok, i get the part about people exploiting certain skills using macros and what not. But the animation change was not needed. It was fine the way it was before, the new one just makes my eyes bleed.
What kind of artists/animators do you have over there ? A few hours in 3DS Max, and i bet i can make something way better, and i am in no way a “professional”.
I will stop using axe until they fix it, it looks completely kittened on my sylvari female necro. Looks like she is swatting flies.

It also makes the offhand weapon vanish during the animation. Not only it it buggy, but it looks horrible. I want the old animation back. I submitted a bug report ingame…

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

About a year ago now, yes.

I mean after today`s patch. My offhand weapon vanishes when the animation is used also. I tested with warhorn, offhand dagger and focus., and it is really annoying…

Did they change the axe 1 animation ? I hope it is just a bug on my character because it looks crappy

A big +1 to you, Malchior. Anets lack of response is starting to become extremely frustrating.

Jelzouki.4128:

I’ll be nicer to anet when they stop ignoring necromancer problems.

^ This.
And this – http://www.tentonhammer.com/feature/guild-wars-2-are-necromancers-really-so-bad
Sadly Anet seems to be busy making underwear and golden pigs for the gemstore instead.

Pelopidas.2140:

-Why can’t they use utility skills in Death Shroud?
Should be changed, i agree
-Why is the Death Shroud cooldown so long?
Lol it’s not, and you can trait it.
-Why do they offer no group utility?
They offer lots of debuffs, and from the upcoming changes they will pump out lots of vuln. In the current pve the debuff style isnt too useful, especially in a party where vuln/other debuffs are applied from everyone. We need group utility in form of buffing.
-Why are two out of three of its elites awful?
Hahahahha what. All elites are great (maybe except golem when he picks tulips)
-Why does it have so little access to control effects?
All my whats, the guy writing this has never played necro. Golem Knockback, Unblockable Daze Warhorn, and SO MANY FEARS.
-Why does it have so little access to powerful combo fields?
They have dark fields and we have poison fields, which fit necro theme. The correct question is why do we have such unreliable blast finishers and no whirl/fast projectile finisher to use life steal in the dark fields.
-Why is the Blood Magic trait line so poor?
It’s not as poor as it is underwhelming. (Drarnor Kunoram.5180 made the calculations for a full vamp necro, iirc better spam regen on staff 2 than life steal.)
-Why is Life Force so fragile when the profession has no reliable means of escape or defence?
Life Force is hard to balance. Too much and necros are too tanky in 1v1, too less and they cant handle a teamfight. I guess the silver lining isnt found yet.
-Why are minions, their role and AI still terrible?
Minions aren’t bad. Damage is good, they siphon hp, they take conditions/boons, are good meat shields, every minion has its role. AI will be fixed in HoT or earlier.

All in all the article has some fair points. Necro needs improving. But some things aren’t as dramatic as people think, and remember the game is mostly balanced around tpvp, not pve.

Also who wants balance, if everyone cries about how OP/UP something is, the more attention the game is getting

Some of your points make me think your necro is just an alt you play once a month.
Some of the best were: “All the elites are great”, “Golem”, “SO MANY FEARS”, “minions arent bad”.
lol… you CANNOT be serious. Because if you are, you are either blind, maybe watching Game of Thrones on your second monitor while playing GW, or just plain flamebaiting.
I am not sure what class you are mainly playing, but i hope anet decides to give you those amazing minions, and spare us necros the headaches. Imagine when mesmers lose their Time Warp and get a Flesh Golem instead. The rage and tears on this forum would reach epic proportions.

Wow! I am speechless, that article is spot on. Don`t worry guys, Anet will ignore this as usual, instead of fixing the necromancer they will keep making golden pigs and other garbage for the gem store.

Those were mesmer wells btw, not necro wells

quoted from the mesmer forums -
“Gravity Well (Elite)
1 second cast time
120 sec cd

Create a powerful well that warps space in an area, pulling enemies to the center and granting stability to allies. When it expires, the well floats enemies caught in it.
Pulse damage: 272
Final Damage: 908
2 Stacks of Stab for 10 seconds
Pull: 50/Float 2 seconds
Number of targets: 5
Pulses: 3
Duration: 3 seconds
Radius: 240
Combo Field: Dark
Range: 900

Well of Action
3/4 Second cast time
30 second CD

Create a well of delayed time, damaging and slowing foes. When the well expires, time snaps back, granting quickness to allies.

Pulse damage: 296
Slow: 1 Second
Quickness: 3 Seconds
Number of Targets: 5
Pulse: 3
Duration: 3 Seconds
Radius: 240
Combo Field: Ethereal
Range: 900

Well of Recall
1 Second Cast Time
45 Second CD

Create a wall of memory which speeds allied recharge. When it expires, it steals memories from foes, damaging and chilling them.

Final damage: 581
Alacrity: 1 second
Chill: 5 seconds
Number of targets: 5
Pulse: 3
Duration: 3 seconds
Radius: 240
Combo Field: Ethereal
Range: 900

Well of Eternity
3/4 second cast time
20 second CD

Create a well that rewinds time, granting vigor to allies. When it expires, the well heals all allies in the area.

Initial self-heal: 2604
Ending heal: 3924
Vigor: 2 seconds
Number of targets: 5
Pulses: 3
Duration: 3 seconds
Radius: 240
Combo Field: Light
Range: 900"

Not sure about you guys, but while this makes me glad for our fellow mesmers, it also makes me want to delete my necromancer

Judging by how bored and unprofessional they were when they presented the necro changes made me lose all hope for fixing this class. While i do appreciate and respect what you are doing Gates, i find it hard to believe that after so much time and so much feedback and suggestions from the necro community that they flat out ignored, they will start listening now. It also felt like the changes were more or less final, they moved some boring traits around and called it a day. Just comparing our traits to what other classes have makes me believe that they lack any kind of direction or clear purpose for the necro. If they really want to fix this class, they need to put in a lot of work, which i doubt it will happen. They`d rather work on gemstore garbage, rather than fixing a class the game launched with.

The changes and the way they were acting on the livestream when necro came up was a real slap in the face for all of us who stuck with the class for all this time.

Sagat.3285:

Kaleygh.1524:

You say you want feedback, yet you chose to completely ignore the tons of feedback the necromancer community has provided over the years.
You make changes nobody asked for, still blind to the REAL problems the necromancer class has. I have lost the little faith i had in this so called “dev team”, and i am not sure anymore what we can do to make you listen to us.

Hand them money in person…

They will have to wait a loooong time to get any money from me after those changes

You say you want feedback, yet you chose to completely ignore the tons of feedback the necromancer community has provided over the years.
You make changes nobody asked for, still blind to the REAL problems the necromancer class has. I have lost the little faith i had in this so called “dev team”, and i am not sure anymore what we can do to make you listen to us.

The necro changes are garbage. The necro community has been offering feedback and ideas for years now, and you give us….this ? Its a slap in the face.

seen you running with AoA and GoT countless times, when you`ll stop holding hands, then i probably wont call you scrubs anymore lol
PS – does AoA still have “superior tactics” ?))

seeing a lot of handholding from FSP too, especially Kale, AoA, GoT, Blos and some other scrubby guilds…

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey folks,

The addition of the bonus WXP for laurels/badges is simply intended to give WvW players an additional option they can spend their laurels/badges on, it is not intended to fix any issues with alts and WxP.

We’re aware of, and actively discussing the amount of progression we’ve added through WxP and the difficulty for playing multiple characters as a result. When we make changes to help address alts/WxP rank, we’ll make sure to specifically call out the change is to help address that issue.

Are you guys even listening to us ? Who asked for wxp via laurels ? Are there anywhere hundreds of posts where people demand it, that i somehow missed ?
Why are you even spending time/resources on things like this when there are more urgent/important things that need fixing ?
You guys are out of touch with most of the pvp/wvw community.

who designed those ? what happened to anets artists ?
i hope those models are not final, there are lvl 20-ish armor sets that look better.

Questular.8359:

The WvW guilds of FSP are trying to get FSP back in shape again, i wonder if the Gandara players have noticed any form of improvement since the last time we met

Running with bigger numbers is not actual improvement)

Riondron.1069:

Copy paste garbage
SO DEAL WITH IT!!!

You know how much we care for some imaginary rules that ncsoft came up with ?
Just as much as we care about your precious points per tick and your pvdoor.

courin.2314:

I’m disappointed … was very one sided fighting.

He knew very well that a gvg was on, stop making him look innocent. He went there to troll, didnt even moved after being asked NICELY to do so.
You cannot really be that naive to think that those people were “kill swapping”. Do you have any idea how many pugs a organzied guild can wipe in the time it takes to set up and finish one gvg ? Rest assured that none of the people doing gvg`s are there for the kill count.

courin.2314:

As an ArenaNet employee, …. And human beings make mistakes.

Human beings also get fired for making mistakes

courin.2314:

Many people have said that they think it’s impossible he didn’t know what people were … then ANet will check it out.

It`s player generated content. People got bored of the stale wvw ppt crap mode that anet is offering us so they`re coming up with their own contests. That means that instead of getting bored and leaving the game, they still play because there is something they find fun/interesting. The reintroduction of the orb mechanic was a clear slap in the face to those players.

courin.2314:

The barrage of foulmouthed vitriol … people never consider other points of view than their own.

He was asked in a normal manner to move away from where he was standing. He clearly knew what was going on, and he just replied with “keep my chat clean” (obviously he thinks he has the right to shut everyone up). When people started to get irritated he showed his anet tag. (probably thinking this will impress the feeble minded peasants that like gvg`s and make them shut up)

courin.2314:

The next assumption … and represented in the worst possible light in this thread.

If someone swears at you just report him. If you`d work as a cop and someone is impolite, do you pull your gun out ? What world do you live in ?
He kept talking as things belong to him – “MY chat”, “MY game” even the whispers he sent were rude and were showing that he clearly has a attitude problem.

courin.2314:

The whole thing I think has been blown ridiculously out of proportion… I’ve known him.)

I understand that maybe he is your friend, and i appreciate that you`re willing to step up and try to patch things up but you have to understand how a part of the wvw community feels about anet. The way we got completely ignored and getting to the point where new mechanics were introduced (that NOBODY asked for) jsut to screw the whole gvg concept, made a lot of people just sick and tired of anet. The current wvw dev team did nothing but mistakes in handling the community.
Threads keep being deleted, forum posts infracted.
How many posts were there before the update asking for the orb mechanic and how many were there asking for gvgs?
Instead they MOCKED us by moving the gvg thread to the events category. What treatment do you expect if you put a anet tag up while disturbing a gvg ?
He clearly knew what was going on, he just went there to mock us and to provoke a reaction. I dont care if he worked on the game before and after release. I had plenty of jobs and i learned that nobody is irreplaceable. If he cannot handle his emotions and cannot focus on fixing the imbalance and the bugs in the game instead of disturbing the players, then he deserves to be fired.

Tbh the only people that i consider close to irreplaceable in Anet would be Kekai Kotaki and Daniel Dociu because of their amazing talent.

PS – sorry for editing the quotes, had to cut the text length because it was too large

Burnfall.9573:

Kaleygh.1524:

Burnfall.9573:

you GvG’s Fail to Demonstrate your Desire to be Recognized?

You`re either a troll then or you have no idea what the gvg scene tried to do in the past and how we got treated.
I understand that maybe you`re a anet fanboy, but dont talk about things you have no idea of.

I don’t Hate GvG but after that harsh Hateful treatment to an outsider who was trolling, make me ask myself, does GvG use Hate to defend its Purpose?\

Does GvG use Hate to be Recognized and Respected by Arena.net and non-GvG players?

Does it??

-I have done GvG before with vast guilds and i choose to not continue-.

“Arena.net fanboy”, take a look at my post history and see for yourself.

Its not really “hate” but people are irritated at all the crap others throw their way just because they want to fight another guild. Those are guilds that do almost only wvw, yet they are being accused of not helping their server and being told what and what not to do.
Tbh most of the people throwing around accusations are just random zerglings angry that they cannot get into the karma train because of a que, and instead of blaming it on anet`s server limitations, they choose to bash the organized guilds.
Wouldnt you feel the same in their place ? Wouldnt you feel sick and tired when not only the pugs, but now the devs too come to troll your one hour of gvg (in most cases, the only hour you took off from wvw the whole week) ?

Burnfall.9573:

you GvG’s Fail to Demonstrate your Desire to be Recognized?

You`re either a troll then or you have no idea what the gvg scene tried to do in the past and how we got treated.
I understand that maybe you`re a anet fanboy, but dont talk about things you have no idea of.

Moon.6371:

Do we really need new GvG threads every few days were content is nothing but GvGers telling the world how special they are?

You guys must have very few things in live that make you feel important, if you need a new thread every few days with walls of text basically stating all the same. Please, next guy with the brilliant idea to open a thread to “inform” the world how unloved, unwanted and unrecognized you as a GvGer feel , please just dont do it.

So, if i get this right, they cannot express their opinion, and you have every right to tell them what to post and what not to post just because you hate gvg.
You sound like a very special person also)
As for comparing gvgs to spvp, i`d rather stay in a hammer train than in a circle. (insert “lolesport” joke here)

Burnfall.9573:

Xom, i agree what the staff did was poor judgement and demonstrated poor character.

Yet after all, did the staff still deserve these harsh treatments?

He moved thenafter; he didn’t stay there till the end.

My issue is how the the GvG’s community responded by treating the staff with Hate.

So much Hate, this thread pages has gone forever.

This is what Hate does, it spreads Flame everywhere, like Wildfire.

Very sad.

I strongly believe that the staff felt Ashamed of his wrongdoings and had another Arena.net staff type his Letter of Apology.

That is what Shame does, it hides in Remorse.

Where is his Justice?

Your anet buddy was clearly trolling them, He knew what was going on, and decided to act like a kitten .
If you watch the video he actually states that “You`re violating MY game mode”. This leads me to belive that he actually IS on the wvw team contrary to the bs we`re being fed by the anet dude that posted in this thread. He is probably the same person that has one of the new areas in wvw named after him.
Judging by how anet treated the gvg community, i find the way most wvw players feel towards them justified.
In the end it doesnt matter if its their game or not, people should still be able to have freedom of speech and should be free to express their own opinions without any kitten mod infracting them or some kitten dev acting like he owns everyone.
From the start of the betas (and even in the alpha from what i hear) they only catered to players like you who kissed their backsides, and have been very rigid and stubborn when it came to changing things.
Honestly i don`t think they care if guilds leave wvw, as long as they keep their pve gemstore cashcow its all good for them.
Infract and delete away, censorship ftw, aye ?

Fungalfoot.7213:

Kai.9182:

He was just standing there.

In the middle of a community organized battlefield where he was disturbing the peace. His reason for doing this?

If he had some point to prove by interrupting this community event I think everyone in this thread would be more than happy to hear about it. If he was “trolling” to be honest judging by the way their moderators patrol these forums we have some serious double standards that need explanation.

His point seems rather obvious to me. You have no entitlement to the lands nor do you have the right to expel other players from participating. The objective of WvWvW is to slaughter your enemies. Not to bond with them over organized melees.

Look at gvg as training. You are saying that wvw`s objective is to slaughter enemies, yet the guilds that do gvg`s are the very best at doing just that. Taking 1 hour off a week to do a gvg is just testing their skill against another guild. It breaks the boredom of wiping pug zergs over and over or just doing pvdoor when everyone is running away from fights.
You seem to be stuck in the same idiotic mindset as the devs.
As a analogy – if i play my necro a bit different than the other necros, does it mean that some redneck from Anet has the right to ruin my game, or prevent me from playing it how i want ?
its the same with how people play wvw.

What the dev did is lame on so many levels. This speaks volumes about Anet`s attitude towards wvw and the organized guilds.
Judging by yesterday`s livestream where we got to see how they are playing their own game, there is not much hope left for wvw ;(

Minfast.5489:

Kaleygh.1524:

@minfast,xerion
Sorry for hurting your feelings, my little drama queens, i was just dropping by to see if your dark little world is still full of hatred and jealousy.
Make sure your little lootbags are packed, i`ll drop by to pick them up in the next matchup.
/weaklings
:)

Lol such bitterness….it’s ok Kayleygh. I can see you just can’t seem to let go. It can’t be good for you, FSP dominating your thoughts like this. I tell you what. I’ll extend the hand of friendship and be the bigger man. You can come back to the server and man an arrowcart or something, once you’ve kissed my Asuran kitten .

Don’t worry your little head about my lootbags. I have no problem giving them up. I quite enjoy fighting against the odds, atleast it’s not enough to make me want to quit like………..

You`re not trying hard enough, i know second graders who can troll better than this.
I`d give you a 2 out of 10, try not to disappoint next time.

King xiuras.3615:

Our border has way too much gvg which is so stupid, if you want to do gvg, do that in the Heart of the Mists, not wvw!

Gvg`s in the Heart of the Mists ? You sure seem to know what you`re talking about.
Please, tell us more

Devon, its quite obvious that you have no clue about what wvw needs. Your team`s relation and communication with the wvw community is horrible and people are leaving.
Nobody asked for this buff and the idea behind it its just wrong. You continue to encourage blobbing and now you guys make it worse by giving blobs even more advantages.
GG

lupercaleb.6041:

if anything, structured pvp will be adjusted to attract this unofficial “scene” of people in WvW who clog up queues to zerg clash eachother

Spvp ? And do what, sit in a circle watching the paint dry?
It`s so exciting, that`s why most of the spvp players are leaving. That and the amazingly fun and interesting meta.
Gvg`s are actually a very small part of what those guilds do in wvw, most of the time they do wvw and actively help their servers.
Maybe you`d notice it if you`d move away from your arrowcart for a few minutes a day.

lupercaleb.6041:

this thread is heavily biased to the unofficial “useless, organized zerg clash in WvW between two groups of people who happen to be in the same guild” scene

let me guess, you`re from the ppt/pvdoor/siege humping scene ?

No. Its a garbage idea, and whoever came up with it should be fired imho.

Sylosis stop whining and drop your lootbag already

No
Pvp is lacking a lot, and they dont seem to care.

Menaka.5092:

Tsezar.6950:

Gandalf style the gangbang style

typical Dius blob

HAI DIUS

Edit: also, handholding FSV!

HAI FSV

We just happened to run in the same direction, killing the same enemies and capping the same objectives.
Quite the coincidence
Yak <3

Sirana Dark.4681:

Here is a Cookie for You Nyrkkipaula. AM also have 1v1 Player but u dont find them, they dont want to fight against Crying People.

Yeah i guess all your solo players are hiding inside that 60 man blob you run around with.
Try harder

Dont worry guys, the next big wvw announcement is about new arrowcart skins for only 800 gems
All jokes aside, they really need to fire that Devon guy.

Copestetic.5174:

But a lot of people do want these changes. While there’s lots of QQ posts here on the forums and other fan websites, there’s just an equal ( if not higher ) amount of players defending the changes or arguing against certain things that are requested.

Weird, because most people seem to consider the Living Story really boring, to give you just an example.
But then again, i am pretty sure that if they introduce new arrowcart skins for 800 gems tomorrow there will be a few fanboys really pleased about it.
The main question is -
Look where the the game is 1 year later. Are you happy ?
Are the spvp/tpvp people happy ? – most seem to think its getting worse and worse
Are the hardcore wvw-ers happy ? – not really
Are the pve-ers happy ? – no clue
If you are happy with the direction the game is heading to, then i`m really glad for you, but i do not feel the same.
Watching their “big announcement” of a 1 hour fight that will probably turn into another laggy zergfest doesnt get my hopes up.

Geikamir.6329:

Wolfheart.1938:

Geikamir.6329:

The line that keeps being used is “We hear what the community is asking for”. That actually makes matters worse because they hear us but they just don’t actually care what we think.

And impartial observer would’ve noted that revamping the loot pinatas we call world bosses was something many players asked for, me included. Didn’t a recent thread about making the open world harder get upvoted?

People have been asking for things like player housing, new races/skills, gvg, better armor choices, more WvW updates, polymock, precursor crafting/scavenger hunt, new legendaries, guild halls, and other things far more than just making Tequatl behave slightly differently.

This.

So far what they showed on the stream was just disappointing.

mtRXX.8793:

I’d like to thank FSV for the GvG!

Thank you also WBC, you guys were awesome!
Hope you had fun, and i wish you a good reset tomorrow <3

drkn.3429:

Kaleygh.1524:

Lion, FRS, Rage, MM are you really that insecure ?

I’m insecure as a tiny little purring kitten, but i have no idea what you’re trying to imply here.

If you see two guilds fighting, give us the same courtesy we give you and dont add into the fight. Wait your turn, there`s plenty of good fights to be had.

Lion, FRS, Rage, MM are you really that insecure ?

hihey.1075:

Kaleygh.1524:

hihey.1075:

5 more kills given to FSP Legendary Defenders @ FSP Spawn in EB

there`s plenty of other places to fight in EB.
…you do know that right ?

Yeah, but in order to fight you need an opponent. And it looks like that from 3 to 5 AM GMT+1, you FSP can fight only when you are outnumbering us 7 to 2 and near the protection of your Defenders.
Still, it is fun. But somehow I get killed in the process of finishing someone or when I try to lure someone away from the spawn making them think I am about to die

If its really that bad try changing the time you play at. Im sure you`ll find decent people to fight.

hihey.1075:

5 more kills given to FSP Legendary Defenders @ FSP Spawn in EB

there`s plenty of other places to fight in EB.
…you do know that right ?