Guild Wars 2

Here’s the link for [Noob] : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Mentors-Noob/page/14#post4131950

The has been a lot of major changes; this sounds like the result of the new leveling system. I can’t tell you for sure since my 2 youngest were level 15ish when the 9/9 patch came along.

Seera.5916:

LadyTrouble.6920:

Seera.5916:

Then just don’t.

I’m sure there are a ton of WvW players who would love for the PvE parts of map completion to be removed because they find map completion in PvE modes to be tedious and a “royal pain in the kitten.” Yet you don’t find them on here creating threads to ask for that. Because they get that the PvE’ers have to go in and take a spot on the map to get their map completion. A spot that during peak times a person who wishes to play WvW could be taking.

You have 2 tedious and pain in the kitten maps to complete. WvW players who hate PvE maps have how many?

There are PvE skill pts that require help from others, like the ones where a champ is sitting on top of it ; do you want those points omitted from map completion as well? I have map completion on 3 toons and the only toon I didn’t need to ask for help on skill points like those were on my thief bc I stealthed in. What about the temple waypoints/POI/skill pts? Like someone said earlier, gw2 is a MMO, you are supposed to play with others.

The wvw maps actually take less in game play time than the PvE map; you just have to be patient. I have 6/8 toons with 100% map done in wvw, the only 2 not complete are under a month old and I have already grabbed all the poi and vistas that I can, now it’s just a waiting game until the locations that I need are avaliable.

I did not say I wanted things removed. I’m not a WvW player. I’m a PvE player. I said that there were likely WvW players who wanted PvE items related but they aren’t on here asking for it. Because they seem to understand that it does not need to be removed simply because they don’t like it.

And by the way, I was that someone who said this was an MMO. So I don’t know why you’re pointing that out to me.

And I also said that the WvW map completions are a test of patience for players who do not wish to play WvW or wish to map complete solo.

I’ve got map completion done on my only character that is level 80. I play slowly. I’m laughably bad at any form of PvP. I had the patience to get my map completion. I will likely get it on my other characters. Because it is not all that unreasonable to do.

And I sure hope WvW is still part of it when I do. Because there is something incredibly satisfying when I finish completing the WvW maps.

sorry Seera, I didnt meant to respond to you; I meant to respond to the OP but when I hit the reply arrow on my phone it got yours instead

Seera.5916:

Then just don’t.

I’m sure there are a ton of WvW players who would love for the PvE parts of map completion to be removed because they find map completion in PvE modes to be tedious and a “royal pain in the kitten.” Yet you don’t find them on here creating threads to ask for that. Because they get that the PvE’ers have to go in and take a spot on the map to get their map completion. A spot that during peak times a person who wishes to play WvW could be taking.

You have 2 tedious and pain in the kitten maps to complete. WvW players who hate PvE maps have how many?

There are PvE skill pts that require help from others, like the ones where a champ is sitting on top of it ; do you want those points omitted from map completion as well? I have map completion on 3 toons and the only toon I didn’t need to ask for help on skill points like those were on my thief bc I stealthed in. What about the temple waypoints/POI/skill pts? Like someone said earlier, gw2 is a MMO, you are supposed to play with others.

The wvw maps actually take less in game play time than the PvE map; you just have to be patient. I have 6/8 toons with 100% map done in wvw, the only 2 not complete are under a month old and I have already grabbed all the poi and vistas that I can, now it’s just a waiting game until the locations that I need are avaliable.

Just my 2 cents for the OP about legendary crafting: do NOT waste your precious karma on armor or trinkets. You are going to need ~1mil karma for your legendary (250 obsidian shards, and roughly another stack of 250 obsidian shards for your 77 mystic clovers).

It’s good to know that one can use karma for trinkets and I might consider it for some of my alts but this is if I don’t plan on another legendary.

I bought my first set of level 80 exotic armor with karma which seemed like a great idea because I didn’t have a lot of gold as a newbie. I have been kicking myself over it since, and this was before the karma nerf. The other thing about karma items is that you can’t salvage them. I found that nasty piece of information out when I upgraded my gear and tried to salvage the armor for the runes.

Good luck!

Silvia.9130:

And it would also be awesome if in the filter you could also select level and professions, so that other professions players can’t join and such.
-“Play how I want but others can’t choose not to play with me knights” shooting me with their catapults in 3…2…1…-

I can’t get ppl to read my lfg description which is short and to the point; what makes you think those lazy mofos are going to take the time and effort to filter lfgs?

With 6 level 80 toons, sometimes I like low level loot to salvage for mid level mats.

+1 for learning new things! I had a great time on the tours and learned so much. Now I have to learn to play my thief!

Is it too late to sign up? I have zerk geared guardian, warrior, thief and mesmer.

woot!

/15chars

I have been having lag and dc issues since Tuesday. I’m doing map completing and all of a sudden all my skills would flash and soon after that I would get dc-ed. When I log back in, I’m usually dead.

I noticed that it is a lot worse in the morning for me (NA server, East coast). I don’t think it’s my Internet connection because of it was I would expect it to be a bigger problem at night when both my bf and I are both on gw2. I don’t think it’s my computer since it hasn’t been an issue til this week. Is there anything bring done? Is anet aware of a possible issue?

I have a PC and is been happening to me too. I keep dying or missing dungeon rewards because of it.. Very annoying

Now I want to run home and check to see if it’s changed in the last week.

In case this isn’t a troll post…
I haven’t done cof 1 in a few days but it’s really rare someone to die on that skip. I used to pug cof 1/2 daily and I can count on 1 hand how many ppl died on that run. Maybe it’s bc I main a guardian with a lot of “oh sh:t” buttons but that skip is super easy: just run thru and dodge the turrets.

Not sure if it’s the quality of pugs, but I did have a wipe at the acolyte part recently.

Buy it. Unless A. You are a gambler, B. Like to have a stroke, or C. Like the feeling of frustration.

IMO farming gold and buying the items you need is the most efficient way. That was my philosophy when I was making Sunrise, and still is as I work on legendary #4.

From time to time, I run around Southsun Cove, Frostgorge Sounds or Orr killing mobs, never concentrating on certain mobs for certain types of drops. I found concentrating on certain mobs hoping for the mats I needed boring and inefficient. I farmed the sparks at Dwayna for charged lodestones (charged cores would’ve made me happy too) only to get a lot of junk and Opal. I ended up buying 75% of the cores for the lodestones in the end anyway.

Good luck!

Dungeons are a good source of gold as well ; especially if you vendor all your loot

I think the reasoning behind the Gift of Battle was to expose players to wvw. It is not your cup of tea just like PvE is not for some hard-core wvw-ers; while wvw-ers are forced into many, many hours of PvE (dungeon tokens and map completion) if they want their legendary weapon, you aren’t forced into THAT much wvw.

Unless things have changed a lot, you should have received 500+ badges from your achievement chests, and map completion (which includes wvw maps) should have gotten you to level 14 or very close to it. And if you popped one of those wvw xp boosters while that you get from the achievement chests while you mapped wvw, you def should have hit 14 by the time you were finished mapping.

I didn’t do any wvw for my first legendary other than the mandatory wvw mapping and found the Gift of Battle something that just happened, as opposed to the other Gifts that required a lot of effort and farming.

And if you are still in need of wvw levels, like others who have mentioned it above , EOTM is the best place to get those levels. It’s also a great place for the ~1mil karma that you are going to need for obsidian shards.

And if this work gives you the hives, you can always farm gold and buy your legendary.

I recommend running with the zerg. You can also try to ask the commander on the map nicely and a lot of the times they will help you out and take the camp that you need, if it’s possible of course.
Good luck!

My client crashes about 90% of the time at Karka since the megaserver was introduced. My graphics settings are set to FGS champ farm settings (as low as I can go). My computer is not old or slow either, in fact in the FGS champ farm hey days, I’m usually one of the first to make it to the next wp.

This is so annoying; it cost me to wp over, I do the pre events and help fight the Queen.. But I don’t get the kill, which means no loot and more importantly no traits unlocked for some of my toons… Yeah, STILL working on that… So it’s very annoying.

Charrzooka! Bigger is sometimes better

How about sword/focus and greatsword? GS#3 blinds and closes distance very well.

Iluzija.1798:

When I see a guardian with a torch I run as fast as I can.

Haha but I was trying to get my torch mastery achievement!

I run TA up and fwd daily and I try to be the instance owner. But cannot do it all of a sudden. My guildies are having the same problem

Yargesh.4965:

Sarision.6347:

Is it just me or did no one mention that you can buy ori tools with karma? I’ll admit the pick is rather annoying to get since you have to do an event in Southsun, but you can get the axe and sickle in Cursed Shore.

Anyway, I bought the infinite tools back when they’re 800 gems each, and don’t regret it, but now at 1000, I’ll have to think about it.

People keep bringing this up but keep omitting that they where soulbound when they where 800 each.

But those 800 gem harvesting tools were traded in for the account bound versions.

My 2 cents : totally worth it. I bought mine when it was soul bound and thought it was worth not having the hassle of walking around with spares ; I always manage to run out of tools at inconvenient spots, like an ori node not no mining pick and no merchant to be found.

It’s even better now that is account bound bc I swap the unlimited set amongst my toons. I would say get it off you can afford the hold. Otherwise, think about what your main goal is.

The dungeon community is not hostile; society functions the same way. If you do not have the grades that meet the school requirements, the school does not accept you. And if you apply for a job, and do no meet the job requirements, you don’t get hired. The school wants to teach a certain kind of student, the employer wants a competent person who can add value, and the gamer wants a smooth dungeon run. How is a dungeon different?

I pug every day. I have not been kicked from party *knock on wood. I have never been asked to ping my gear, even though I wish they did ; it was very clear in some instances that not every one in the group was in zerker. OP, I’m sorry you came across some terrible people.

Thank you for your responses!

Wool is so expensive and I need a bunch for my ascended gear, so I would like to farm instead of buying it off the TP. I’m ok with cotton, linen and silk. I have more stacks of bolts of gossamer than I would like to admit. It’s the wool that I can’t seem to get my hands on.

It’s bugged. I’m working on map completion on my second character and I’ve gotten rewards.

I noticed that map completion is a bit easier because I don’t have to solo content sometimes meant for groups (a champion guarding a vista or skill point). But this doesn’t outweigh the cons.

Tagging mobs are a problem when one is isn’t at max level. My level 80s are perfectly fine but my lowbie engineer is a while different story.

Events are so full of people that monsters melt away in seconds, and this is with a full zerker guardian. I am getting at least 50% less bags from the centaur event with a staff! To make things worse, there were so many ppl at Golem last night that my boyfriend who was sitting across from me and on the same map was lagging badly and I got disconnected. I got back on but on a different map. So now I am playing with a while lot of strangers and not the people I want to play with.

Please bring back the old server system. I even like seeing the same old faces at the meta events. I will gladly solo group content for map completion and if I did to many times, I will either guest to another server or get a friend to help me.

Zerker did NOT ruin the game, the crybabies ruined it for themselves.

The 40 sec Lupi kills referenced above are usually done by an organized group of very good players, not the general public. These people spend hours practicing to get there, there is dedication and skill involved, their gear is only a tool.

Being less than a meta build has never been a problem for me or my boyfriend when we use the lfg tool. We use it EVERYDAY for dungeons; AC & TA for me and Arah for him. If you join a group and don’t meet the requirements stated, you should be kicked for not reading. Lesson here: LEARN TO READ.

I find that most players are pretty flexible as long as you are honest. If I join a group that says “Exp preferred” and I have only done it a couple of times and admit to it, they usually don’t kick. In fact, they take the time to type instructions.

Also, the groups with little or no requirements usually get filled so quickly, there isn’t time to click “join” which is why it seems like everyone is looking for Zerker Heavies.

thx! I didn’t realize that it DR affected karma as well.

I need karma and lots of it for obsidian shards for both my legendary and to make bloodstone bricks (I’ve got way too many stacks of bloodstone dust in the bank taking up space), so I have been paying close attention to the amount of karma that I get from each event, especially when I have taken a karma booster.

I noticed that part way through a champ run in Queensdales, I would start getting 10 karma for killing a champ instead of the ~200 karma that I would normally get. This is not exclusive to champion kills; I have had the same happen to me in the middle of a Scarlet invasion so I received ~300 karma for the first half of the events and 10 karma for the remaining. This only happens to my guardian but I have no played my other characters for an extended period of time to full test this.

I have “reported the bug” twice but this keeps happening and I get no responses. Am I the only one?