Guild Wars 2

I don’t really know where else to place this, and I don’t want to make a new thread for expressing this, so I’ll put it here.

I think it’s absolutely great that with this recent arc of the Living World story, that there was as part of the general achievements, a cosmetic aura that was tied into the theme of the most recent map and the events revolving around it. I’m referring to Koda’s Warmth Enrichment.

The whole thing was great fun to work towards, however I was disappointed to find that the infusion in question is almost literally invisible on my character!

Given the name, you would think it would look like this, image when you’re standing at the Braziers in Bitterfrost Frontier
https://68.media.tumblr.com/1748ecad9570ebfa3c10409ac5fc8f37/tumblr_ojvuyqpBkD1rufgn2o2_1280.jpg

But it instead looks like it’s barely visible, save for the occasional weak puff of smoke that will emerge from my character’s chest.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/36064b68dedb93dc118e8d29366a6670/tumblr_ojvuyqpBkD1rufgn2o1_1280.jpg

It kind of really kills my motivation to work towards anything if that’s how things are going to turn out in the end.

But I’ll leave it on a positive note, I did enjoy this installment of the Living world, I really like how everything is panning out, I cant wait for the next chapter.

Adding my name to the long lists of Same here!

Though I went and made my Pet Seed into a Pet Seedling since I assumed it was part of the crafting process until I discovered I can’t progress further…

I’m going for Twilight, I have everything except the precursor, I just spent close to 100g just now in an attempt to craft Dusk, still nothing. I’m pretty much just going to be taking this really slowly from now on, its kind of frustrating being so close yet so far and the only method of obtaining it is a trip to the slot machines.

I think what frustrates me more is not the RNG but more the only other alternatives are.

1) Save up 650g+
2) Go back in time and exploit with god skull weapons.
3) Buy a ton of gems and buy it outright on the TP
4) Be lucky.

All of which are not going to happen for various reasons. Either way I’m not giving up, I’m just going to be taking it really really slowly.

My only concern really, and this comes I suppose out of selfishness, but I for one would like to be able to actually properly run Fractals now. The current level system is kind of punishing to those late to the party. (Since most announcements in LA are for at least level 10+) And for quite a while I’ve had little to no luck finding people interested in running lower levels.

At the moment, I’m able to do up to level 4, And about a week a go me and a Friend sat in an overflow of LA for half an hour posting in the chat, for just a few more people to run level 4 with us… it was either people looking for higher levels or anything BUT level 4.

My thought on this was they should of had it in level brackets, similar to how PvP’s ranking system is set. From what I’ve noticed and what I’ve also been told, levels 1-9 are all about the same difficulty. So all someone would need to do is just run the bracket 9 times and then after their 9th run they’d be in the next bracket, where Agony comes into play.

That’s my thoughts anyway, otherwise I just want to see what else you guys have in store and some of the ideas I’ve read here sound promising too.

I’m posting yet again, now that I’ve got all the armor I wanted on my Charr.

@ Kumu Honua
Really, wow, I know it took that long for a trial to appear in the original, well i’m hoping that’s not the case for GW2, that or I’ll have to promote it a little bit harder then =P

@judeobscure
It’s not so much a matter of cost (well it kind of is) so much as they don’t want to blow X amount of money for a game that they will probably not like or play.

And it’s not that I wouldn’t trust my friends with my account, its that I’d want to be there playing with them to guide them through it, since these guys are new to MMO’s in general and are only put off by MMO’s for their original stigma (which guild wars 2 pretty much throws out the window IMO)

@Latinkuro
I’ve explained that to them, to which has given them a good impression about the game as a whole, but they still have reservations, also, I figured right now would be too early to open up free trials, but I just would like to get an idea of if there is going to be one available in the not to distant future.

@Farzo
Well that’s a true enough point, and it does make sense, but still i’d love to be able to give my friends a tour of Tyria for a week. =P

@norc
An influx of players when free trial periods are open are always inevitable, but of course these players aren’t going to be around forever (well unless they eventually decide to buy the game)

Though they could also combat the potential influx as you explained by allowing us players who already own the game to give out a single (or maybe 2-3) trial invite(s) to a friend for a week or something.

Personally I don’t really want to see mounts in Guild Wars 2, if World of Warcraft is anything to go by everywhere will just be a cluster of sparkle animals. Even if you limit it to commanders, based on what I see in lions arch in a daily basis (being 5+ commander way-points) I don’t want them to be even more obnoxious with them riding mounts around.

And because it might also be an aesthetic thing, more people will get the commander position only for the sake of getting a mount (and potential buffs that come with it), rather than what people SHOULD be getting the commander position for. To lead a large group of people.

Yeah, I figured that “Gold Sellers” would be the biggest issue at the moment for a lot of things, but i’m sure there are ways to prevent them from abusing a trail period. But with that said, I’d love to introduce my friends to the world of Tyria.

So, I’ve been playing this game and loving how it legitimately sets a new standard as to what to expect in MMO’s, and with any Multiplayer game, it’s more fun to play with friends than by yourself. As such I’ve been trying to recruit some of my friends (who are new to MMO’s) into this game just to show them how different and how lovely this game is.

Sadly my descriptions of how it alone are not enough, to convince them to just out-right buy the game, so we’ve settled at “when a free trial comes out, you guys have to play with me.”

I’ve searched the whole forum and to my knowledge there are no free trials available, nor are their talk of any, so my question is.

Will there be free trial’s available in the future?
If so is there an ETA on when they will be available?
And for the sake of discussion, are any of you in a similar position with your friends?

Here’s my Charrdian Aiden Avalbane outside CoF =P

I think what you’re after might be closer to the build I use, since unless I get zerg rushed or i’m careless, I usually do well in the survivability category, as well as dish out decent damage. Personally I use the Valkyrie Armor set (Power, Vitality, Crit Percentage) all with Superior Rune of the Pack.

Traits
30/25/0/15/0

I have about 33% crit chance
Power is also 3333
and Health is 17-18k depending on my weapons.

This seems to work for me in Dungeons. haven’t tried WvW yet, thats my suggestion, might not be for you but give it some thought.

I’m calling it now, its going to be something for Halloween, either way it sounds exciting, that or Wolfey.3407 is right and its just the typical Anet Staff workspace =P

Trolls end… I’ve done it once with my Charr, I don’t know how, I don’t remember when i did it, but i’ve done it, and I won’t do it again.

At any rate, I’m determined to complete everything on my Charr, I mean i’ve personally already knocked out about a 3rd of them, and once you understand the positioning its pretty straight forward.

I honestly don’t know why people complain about the Black Citadel, its easy to navigate through, then again I rolled Charr during the Beta so I might be a bit bias. I actually found the Sylvari home annoying to navigate through.

They just appeal to me over the other races, They range from highly intelligent to highly kitten they have the most interesting history and culture to them, and you can’t dispute a race that killed their own gods, to prove their own supremacy.

That and they are really just big giant kittens =3

Here’s my Charr, Aiden Avalbane playing with a hermit crab.

I’m just going to throw my name into the mix of people victim of “Diminished Returns” I don’t know exactly how the mechanic works, but before the update I actually hadn’t done much dungeon running, though before that I was one to avidly do “CoF Magg Speedruns” because no matter what group I joined, thats the only path anyone ever wanted to do (and still is usually.)

So 2 days ago, after a few days of not even touching a dungeon (or much of the game in general) I join a random group and run through the dungeon, only to get 30 tokens on completion for the first run, I shrug it off since it’s still not bad, and the second run I only get 5 tokens, annoyed with that I thank the group for their time and quit dungeon running for the day.

Late Yesterday, after exploring the world for a bit and finding a roadblock on a bugged skill point, I figure I will run the dungeon again as I’m close to getting a new bit of armour. Yet again after running through the dungeon my reward is 30 tokens.

So, not once since the update have I ever seen anything more than 30 tokens, and I wouldn’t be bothered with this so much if it weren’t for the fact that all other runs after that result in 5 tokens, speed run or not 5 tokens is a joke.

Anyway thats my experience from it.

The thing is with this part of the mission is the enemies spawn way to quickly to keep up with. I mean yesterday I tried this mission with 3 different groups, we would all do amazingly fine and were well co-ordinated up until the point where we had to defend Magg.

One group we got up to 70ish% (and this was the best of the night) of setup time before the enemies overwhelmed us, and it was during the 30% mark that we inevitably resorted to kiting because taking them on directly was too difficult due to how many spawned.

And we tried, we really tried, we did a bunch of times to fight them and not kite them as intended, but it just proved too much, even with different attack plans, it wasn’t enough.

But with that said, I don’t think the enemies should be nerfed per se, but the mechanic of how they spawn should be spaced out a bit more evenly, so there is a bit of breathing room for us to take them all (or most of them) out.

Thats my 2 cents in anyway