Guild Wars 2

As someone who helped to run a world boss train for a majority of Isle of Janthir, this patch has made the game a lot less enjoyable. The whole premise of this change was to make world bosses more accessible and promote the growth of social communities.

However, the addition of MegaServers and synchronization seems, to me at least, to have done the opposite. Through the process of this quality of life update, so many communities have been destroyed. Just before WvW Leagues started, we held a raffle for about a week and a half during the 2 1/2 hours we would complete ALL the world bosses. We raised about 500 gold worth of siege and supplies for IOJ’s WvW community. There’s no way we could ever possibly do that again with the implementation of MegaServers.

As it is now, It’s nearly impossible to find a contested temple because of the auto-balancing of maps. I’m sure they’re out there, but who knows which server they’re on or which server I’m on for that matter. If you do find one, in about 30 seconds the map will be flooded with people and no one else from my party/guild can get in.

On top of that, if an event becomes bugged, like the instance of Temple of Melandru I found last night. Instead of a single server of people missing out on that for a little bit, now at least 10x the amount of people are going to miss out on it because no one will want to be on that map, but people will be forced to go there regardless.

Personally I’d like to see MegaServers rolled back entirely, but I know that won’t happen. I kind of wish we could have a hybrid, removing the guesting limitations, but maintain seperate servers, again that won’t happen. A lot of good ideas have been given in this thread, I really REALLY hope that Arena Net listens to some of them.

Regardless, they’ve changed the game from “play as you please” to “play this way, because it’s better.”

I wish Arena Net had been more vocal about their roll out of MegaServers as well, instead of just pushing them out without any real notice. I’m pretty sure 50% of the games population doesn’t realize that all maps are MegaServered now.

Any ways, sorry for rambling and not maintaining a straight line of thought, I just really hate the state of the game currently. I don’t see why Arena Net decided to fix something that wasn’t broken.

So a lot of people have been stating the same things over and over again. I’d love to reiterate them because they apply to me as well.

As someone who helped to run a world boss train for a majority of Isle of Janthir, this patch has made the game a lot less enjoyable. The whole premise of this change was to make world bosses more accessible and promote the growth of social communities.

However, the addition of MegaServers and synchronization seems, to me at least, to have done the opposite. Through the process of this quality of life update, so many communities have been destroyed. Just before WvW Leagues started, we held a raffle for about a week and a half during the 2 1/2 hours we would complete ALL the world bosses. We raised about 500 gold worth of siege and supplies for IOJ’s WvW community. There’s no way we could ever possibly do that again with the implementation of MegaServers.

As it is now, It’s nearly impossible to find a contested temple because of the auto-balancing of maps. I’m sure they’re out there, but who knows which server they’re on or which server I’m on for that matter. If you do find one, in about 30 seconds the map will be flooded with people and no one else from my party/guild can get in.

On top of that, if an event becomes bugged, like the instance of Temple of Melandru I found last night. Instead of a single server of people missing out on that for a little bit, now at least 10x the amount of people are going to miss out on it because no one will want to be on that map, but people will be forced to go there regardless.

Personally I’d like to see MegaServers rolled back entirely, but I know that won’t happen. I kind of wish we could have a hybrid, removing the guesting limitations, but maintain seperate servers, again that won’t happen. A lot of good ideas have been given in this thread, I really REALLY hope that Arena Net listens to some of them.

Regardless, they’ve changed the game from “play as you please” to “play this way, because it’s better.”

I wish Arena Net had been more vocal about their roll out of MegaServers as well, instead of just pushing them out without any real notice. I’m pretty sure 50% of the games population doesn’t realize that all maps are MegaServered now.

Any ways, sorry for rambling and not maintaining a straight line of thought, I just really hate the state of the game currently. I don’t see why Arena Net decided to fix something that wasn’t broken.

That makes more sense.. Thanks!

I have done daily achievements the past two days with a Kiel button active on multiple characters and haven’t received any credit for this challenge. I didn’t see anyone else mentioning this problem, so if you need more information from me please let me know.

I was doing the heart in sparkfly fen called “Secure the area around Dryground Village,” one of the tasks for completing the heart is training the various sylvari NPC’s around the village by sparring with them. Once you beat them however, you don’t get credit towards the heart for this. Everything else counts, except for completing this portion of the task.

Hello,

I logged in on GuildWars2.com the other day. Then went to the forum and saw that I needed to log in again if I wanted to post something. I understand this may be a security feature, but it’s also some what of an inconvenience.

Jrunyon.3012:

I stumbled across this a little while ago and remembered why this game is my favorite game ever. Little things like this are hidden everywhere and it really helps make the world seem alive. I just wish there was a quest or something to go along with his backstory.

Yeah I was doing a story quest in Kessex Hills, and there was a commotion amongst NPCs because of a emissary from the centaurs was visiting. It may not be a lot, but I agree with you, tiny things that you miss the first time around are amazing.

Blueshield.6291:

That’s funny you mentioned that, I was just completing the LA map on a new character last night when I ran into that.

That’s the reason why I found it too.

Quick Mouse.7635:

Guys, please keep in mind that a lot of people have alts parked on the rich ori vein in south sun cove, and just hop between alts to mine. Might seem like booting, but it’s not. I do this all the time.

I never considered that as a possibility, thanks for enlightening me.

It may not seem obvious, but if you look at the mini map, it shows the bridge connecting directly to the light house. However, as you can see the bridge doesn’t connect to it anymore. There is a “new”-ish building off to the left looking all mysterious and interesting. It kind of caught me off guard when I saw this.

I hope this has something to do with either the next upcoming event or a future one.

Hi, I couldn’t think of a better topic for this but essentially my suggestion is this: fix the way the AI routes paths to your next story mission. For example, I had the mission Fixing the Blame which begins in the northern part of Fireheart Rise. I had just finishing my mission Shell Shock in Mount Maelstrom. The little green star sent me to into the Straits of Devastation to use the Asura Gates in Fort Trinity. Unfortunately, these gates were unavailable to me as I had yet to gain passage to those gates. After that dead end, I went up into the Wayfarer Foothills because that was were the second green star appeared. This route took me through Frostgorge Sound, which was fine. Until I realized that I was in a level 80 zone and I was only level 71. Needless to say, I got two-shotted by an enemy. Luckily i had a revive orb, and managed to sneak/run for my life through to the nearest waypoint at Earthshake Basin.

tl;dr: Please change the pathing to the next story mission from shortest trip to safest trip.

I just finished this story quest, it wasn’t terribly hard because I was over leveled for the mission. Half way through the mission, right after the veteran risen eagle is defeated and risen start attacking, Trahearne just stopped fighting, getting attacked, and moving. It didn’t really bother me as I said, but one of the objectives is to protect Trahearne, which isn’t terribly hard because he’s not being attacked.

That makes sense, thanks for letting me know. It’s kind of frustrating, but I’ve gotten over it. Thanks again!

I’ve been using Master gathering tools on my alt, since I have so many of them piled up. I just tried mining from a platinum ore vein in Mount Maelstrom, only to get clumps of ruined ore. Just before that, I tried using a Master Axe on a pine sapling in Timberline Falls only to get ruined logs. At first I thought maybe I wasn’t using the masters tools, then I thought it was something special attributed to the winters day update, but once I tried it on the platinum I knew it was just a regular bug.

Thanks for your time, any more info you need I’ll do what I can to give it to you.

edited to add screenshot of me mining and chopping

Not just skritt, Toy Ventari too. Got two shots and I died
Also saw no gift/bag spawned from the present.

For some reason, Piles of Vile Essence and Piles of Putrid Essence don’t show up in the discovery panel of the huntsman station.

I can verify this, logged out last night with the “See the Pact crash survivors safely to Meddler’s Summit.” stuck on the minimap just outside of the finishing point. Logged in just a minute ago to see that it was still there. Don’t know what happened, but please fix it. Thank you very much