Guild Wars 2

Happy where they are. Keeps fractals active and they drop frequently enough if You are persistent.

Woljnir.7810:

Let’s not forget that rares yield less than a 1% chance to get a precursor. It’s like 0.3% ‘ish right? 0.3% is rubbish odds, period. It’s not unlikely it would take thousands of attempts. I just wish exotics were more than 1%.

Wow… how pathetic

Wow well done. Jealous. I really want to target legendary weapons but the precursors ruin that for me

Yes for fractal gw1 events.
Not sure on a remake
Yes for expansion / new content. Certainly would buy it

I played gw1 for a couple of months around Christmas with the reddit guild. It was great, the most active gw1 guild I played with it was insane. Like 40 online and all 100 places were active in the guild not including the alliance, felt like a guild wars resurgence. Its a shame it died down a bit though

Arsi.8342:

ok i will risk it and post you the result

Would say good luck but I think I’ll just say sorry for your loss

It’s a fail very bad system indeed, I’ve always clung on to a minor bit of hope that it will be changed. Keep on pushing and it will change

Well this is an easy thing to fix and I’m sure anet has set themselves a nice list of easy improvements to the game for their next feature patch fixing all issues in one patch would not show progression of the game. So next feature patch the selling point will be precursors. Craft, scavenger hunt ect a precursor. I’m sure they’ll include the ability to save traits too. With some minor tweaks like remove the need for repair.

And some stealth nerfs too I’m sure

Well end game truly does start at level 1. I’m not against the train, trash talk over map chat happens a lot in low level zones across all the mmos I’ve played. Plus it’s hardly disruptive it’s only small sections of the map. If they removed it it certainly wouldn’t be replaced :-(

Can anyone list the music they were using on the stream please quite liked a few of the songs :-) thanks

So today I learned there is an endless fractals tonic what other rare items are there that I should be praying to RNGesus/farming for? (Except for precursors, I have given up hope on them and now I cry myself to sleep)

Link : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endless_Fractal_Tonic

I don’t mind it a healthy balance is nice. I would much prefer some capped player hard dungeon content. 5-20 players would be great always enjoyed pve over pvp.

Myst.5783:

I got my 3rd precursor a day or so ago or a random mob in Cursed Shore

They’re still dropping. .-.

Congratulations.

Yes they can drop anywhere with as close as you can get to no chance of it happening. Which I hope they keep that like it is I bet you were very happy when you saw it and things like this are good.

But it would be nice to have a refined way of achieving one or a more specific area where they are more likely to drop at the cost of it being account bound. Perhaps they can put a new hard zone or hard dungeon in that has a more likely occurrence of precursor drops, where you can improve your magic find specifically in the zone or better yet include a reward track or world treasure trial.

Yes a streamer I follow has had like 80 precursors from the forge. There definitely are something lucky people. He’s currently on 8 legendary weapons. Fair play to them but the system is bonkers with that being the only legitimate way. RNG can be fun, rewarding and exciting if something is incredibly rare like farming bone dragon staffs in guild wars 1. But making people grind (time) to get items to put them in a forge (more time) then to get naff all out. It’s not fun and it’s not sensible.

Edit : Fractal weapons RNG is similar to my bone dragon staff example. I don’t mind doing fractals because I know it can drop and I get consolation in other loot. I can improve at the game, I make new friends ect

There are many more interesting and intelligent ways to create gold sinks than to frustrate your player base. I wouldn’t dream of converting gems to gold to get to a precursor. I guess we are all fools putting stuff in the forge

Indeed they have set the bar for that. I’m happy to rise to that and grind my heart out. But how the heck am I supposed to get a precursor without resorting to the mystic toilet. I haven’t wasted as much as most people so maybe my argument is less significant but I think I’ve dropped over 200g in there since launch with nothing remotely useful out of it, at least I unlocked some skins last time I used it. I don’t want to resort to buying it I would much prefer to work towards it. Ive given up on the forge now. So unfortunately for me I will never get a legendary.

Oh nice, if it’s called nickname that probably threw me. Thanks

I fully agree with you the story was not their finest work and I hope they create a better campaign system in the expansion and introduce some more interesting characters. It was bad, very easy to progress through and not interesting.

Deso queues are not bad. You can get in within 5minutes even in peak times. I find myself insta join borderlands most the time

Indeed always wished you could add a note to them. Always wished I could do this in guild wars 1 too but the feature never existed

The precursor system is pathetic. All the material farming required is hard and tedious for a legendary, supposedly a journey which I am more than fine with I would choose to do it but I never will do because I will never be able to obtain a precursor . A precursor weapon that becomes legendary sounds grand but this precursor weapon is some random drop from anywhere with naff all lore with no means of realistically targeting it other than if you continuously put 4 weapons of the same type so I can get the one I want over and over again in a beyond extreme low chance RNG generator. What were they thinking and how has this continued to be the only was of obtaining this to date. Make it achievable with some kind of logical treasure trial or something. Or at least make it more easily RNG achievable from end game content like dungeons, wvw.

I’d prefer a hard mode everywhere!

Indeed! I didn’t detail all that but exactly my thoughts. Thank you

There is so much negativity here and I thought I would post to say thanks and it’s a decent patch. I like the skin system, yes you can’t just change skins all the time unless you’re rich but it’s a lot better than constantly grinding to get the skins again… and it provides some much needed progression as there is very little that has changed in terms of what there is to do before the patch to when the game was released while there is no temporary content about. I have jumped in and out of the game when it has been boring for me but now I’m excited and have been playing a lot again.

The damage and gold nerfs are across the board so it’s affecting everyone. It’s a little annoying indeed but it doesn’t stop anything full zerker will continue to be the weapon of choice in pve it just slows things down a bit. I like doing dungeons in other games but never really enjoyed it much in guild wars 2 I never felt they were rewarding as getting gold as a reward is boring I’d rather have treasures wish they would realise that and perhaps looks at that as alternatives instead of removing a reward all together (by removing repeatable chests).

Dye system is much better now just a shame they no longer drop randomly no longer.

Over all very happy despite those little bits. Really looking forward to the mega server to grow and the world to feel more alive again. And hopefully they will start bringing out some more challenging party based content. Not disorganised world zerg events. Great patch thanks for the new quality of life changes.

I’m gutted, I was looking forward to getting into the dungeon running scene but it seems that they have become less appealing again.

That would be the day, I was sad after the first few weeks had passed and realised how lacklustre the dungeons were. I don’t think they will bother until an expansion as it is too much effort trying to balance that side of the game with how this trinity is setup.

Hello all,
I got a bit disheartened by all the constant nerfs happening with the mesmer and decided to drop the class about 2months ago. I’ve got a warrior casually to 80 since launch and have been trying to play it but there seems to be no reason to revisit old places as there is no end target to gear my warrior with acsended items and equivalent stuff again. I enjoy the powerful stuff but there really isn’t anything that provides a worthy challenge to warrant the effort and I’m not going to get my warrior to 30+ on fractals again… (if you can call it a challenge).

I’ve got over 700 hours on my mesmer and nice stuff, I just tried to start WvW again but just can’t get the motivation to play it. I was generally confusion spamming build in WvW then that was ruined. As for PvE I tried dungeons the other day with it and felt the same way, builds used back then are now outdated and been replaced with what looks to be sub par builds.

I’m sure it can’t be that bad and that I’m just negatively exaggerating it, can any of you help me gain some enthusiasm to start playing the mesmer again?

Is there any reason for this than other to be annoying. I’ve been doing all the events on an alt then I’ve just realised the tickets are soulbound and not account bound :-( my low level alt has no chance on the gauntlet.

edit: well I’ve found out at least I can buy them

Already started working on my Warrior as of the confusion nerf, feeling more positive about shelving the mesmer for a while now

Please don’t scrap Factions, it would be great to play this as a Guild Wars 2 expansion. I would buy this on my accounts for sure!

Healix.5819:

6 months to a year from now, there’ll most likely be “orichalcum+1” level nodes, so unless you’re too lazy to restock on picks, it’s not really worth it.

As a bonus however, like all gathering tools, you can exploit the pick to also be an infinite use axe and sickle.

Yeah, I’m sure there will be an “orichalcum+1” level node and considering they’ve made the effort to state it has the same efficiency as an Orichalcum Mining Pick this isn’t a long term mining solution investment. This is a looks cool item, still I might buy one.

/bump

still looking

Current look, hoping to change every piece out over the next month or so. Still undecided on what piece to choose.

Yeah currently sitting on 4/5 after completing everything

Hello there,

My IGN is Kernave, I’m 23 from England & play on the desolation EU server. I’m looking to join a medium/large Guild with a PVX focus on the desolation server. I was looking forward to play Guild Wars 2 from announcement and have been playing Guild Wars 1 from around launch and moved over to GW2 on early access. I plan on playing for a very long time.

In PvE I enjoy dungeon running and optimising strategies to speed clear, I’m hoping to get involved heavily with Fractal. I also like playing in a group Karma farming as well as general exploration.

I am looking to get involved with tPVP and currently sit on rank 10 from just doing sPVP. I would like opportunity to play tPVP with guild members to establish a steady team.

WvWvW is really enjoyable with a group on VOIP. My initial guild has become inactive and making any impact on WvW is near on impossible when not in a zerg so it would be nice to get into a guild with some focus on WvW too.

From myself you’ll get an active, friendly, helpful, skillful player for your guild who will want to be involved with everything! I currently play in a small guild with 4 real life friends but they only play very casually.

Please feel free to contact me in game, leave a comment or a private message me. I look forward to hearing from you!