Guild Wars 2

OK, let’s see how the Chronos Gearing checklist will be:
- Having Zerker/Commander-Minstrel Gear
- Farm Leadership Runes ( now Mandatory )
- Farm/Buy Sigil of Concentration if running Commander or Minstrel ( now Mandatory )
- Buy Episode 5 to get a Food that consumes Charged Quartz to do daily ( now Mandatory )
- Forget any DPS ambition ( like always but now a little more due to Minstrel being more needed )
- Drop the Doubloons Exotic gear in favor of Ascended ( presumably )
I mean, I am totally fine with not having the burden of having Exotic gear instead of Ascended because it was always ridiculous that the best option is not the actual highest rarity due to an Upgrade slot, but can we at least hope that PoF will get us proper stat combinations?

I have everything I need to re-gear myself having done Raids for a long time, but I think that still new Chronos will have a too harsh way ahead to get into it, and now a semi-mandatory Episode 5 to buy.

Mr Snuff.7132:

I have completed the champ spider in siren’s multiple times without the drop as well as the drake without the drop.

Just fyi, the spider to do is the one that spawns at Lyssa’s shrine powering Event, not the one near Dwayna’s cascades.
Maybe you’re already doing the right one, but I’ve seen a lot of people mistaking it.

It doesn’t count any Legendary Armor pieces ( I have both Light and Heavy armor sets, Medium soon ) and neither the newest Aurora. Any fix in the future?

CJTheKilla.1054:

When you ban half of your pvp scene and wonder why it’s dying out
rip

Good bait, but needs more salt.

Adding my name to the bugged accounts. No node showing on vendor tab.

Hello,

I am Lascax ( 29, italian, male ) and I’ve been playing since release.
I main Mesmer since then ( 4,1k hours on it, 5k+ hours in total in my account ) and I’m looking for a Hardcore/Semi-Hardcore Guild.

My current static group which have been running since January 2016 is sadly disbanding soon but I still want to do weekly fullclears and most of all having the chance to go into future Challenge Modes that will be released.
Here’s some info about my experience:

- Legendary Heavy & Light Armor sets currently on my Chrono and Guardian, the rest is ascended gear. Full AR/Stat infusions on the Chrono.
- Chrono has both DPS and Tanking Gear ready. Personally I just need some more experience on tanking because I was the DPS in my static.
- Hammer Guardian was my alt for a few months. Could go again into that if needed. Good knowledge on that one, wishing to learn again if needed.
- Fully Ascended Zerker Elementalist used for about 2 months with both Staff and Fresh Air builds at the start of this year. I would need to re-train this if asked.
- Advanced Raid Experience. I have all the titles and CM done properly, never bought a single run, everything done with both my static and pugs. I am able to improvise necessary actions if needed, like Distorting to recover a downed in a bad AoE without endangering the group ( by leaving a Continuum Splitted Time Warp to compensate my brief absence for example ). 672 LI as of this current week. Fullclearing since January 2016, very rarely missed a weekly kill.
- Good Fractal knowledge. I have got my Ascension through daily T4s but did not play too much of them for months. I am willing to learn the newest CM if needed. Currently have 150 AR only on the Mesmer but could get it on another profession if needed.
- Available mostly on the evening hours, Central Europe Timezone ( Italy ). I have Discord, Teamspeak and whatever needed to communicate, I’m friendly and I rarely swear.

I’m looking for a group that want to have fun but also don’t want to lose the focus during the encounters.

I can get into a group into more than Weekly runs and also in a group that’s fixed on 10 people. Available to always learn more and reach the needs of the Guild if needed. I am tolerant on bad runs ( those can happen ) but I don’t want to waste time if there aren’t results frequently.

I can’t play for more than the evening hours but I can arrange my availability on fixed nights if asked to.

Reply to this discussion or feel free to add me on Discord @ Lascax#1748, ingame @ Lascax.2163 and on this reddit account . I check them frequently.

Have a nice day & good game :-)

Yeah, just go straight to give those rewards ONLY to people who played for 5 years and preordered the game.
Screw those who buy the game later.
Screw those who didn’t karmatrained before the nerf on EotM.
Screw Scouts.
Screw Roamers.
Screw everyone who just thinks that playing WvW requires less than Rank 250.
Let’s all enjoy the server linking even further and let’s resize the WvW population until the only reward you can hope to get is a discounted cultural skin.
This will surely help the WvW to be healthier, beloved and played only by those who really deserve it, which are ONLY those who zerged since 2012.

Skada.1362:

Maybe 1% of the PVE people coming in will stay, and for that I am happy, but the rest are just vultures. Go play Blizzard games for items and grind. Peace!

Those vultures are the ones that allows you to even play that mode without further server linking.

GrahamW.5397:

The pip rewards are the bigger issue than the rank requirement tbh. Could use a look at.

Yeah, and I wholeheartedly agree with that too, but we’re discussing here about Rank Requirement, which will not get newer people in a 5 year old game interested into those rewards at all.
Extra pips should be given to higher ranks, imo.

MadBomber.3719:

isn’t the whole point to reward those that play/ have played wvw loyally? just like the legendary armor rewards those that do raids or basically any other legendary before rewarded people who grinded pve

Legendary Armor will take about 6 months from scratch with a good dedication in the first 1-2 months and then just 1-2 nights of weekly runs.
Legendary Weapons require 1-3 months of average farming, depending of the person.
Legendary Backpacks, PvP or FotM, require 3 months everyday playing ( with a pause in between for PvP ).
I think we can say that any Legendary so far takes from 3 to 6 months if you’re dedicated enough, without necessary everyday logging in but good weekly amount of play.
Can you say someone can farm 2k Ranks in 6 months in the same condition? I highly doubt it. Even pips capping say no.

zinkz.7045:

Most of the stuff in the game is pretty accessible, not every single thing has to cater to the sort of Skinner box victims who have to be given “incentives” to actually bother to play the game.

Raids got a huge bump in interest since they got their Legendary Armors. Same happened with PvP and Fractals with the Backpieces.
All these items are not easily accessible but they require commitment. Commitment is different than grindy experience just for the sake of it. There are plenty of people that played WvW since the beginning without huge pauses and still have not reached that point.
I’m not saying that we should give those for granted, but that these rewards should at least seem reachable in the same range of other prestigious rewards ( see those Legendaries I’ve said ).
But I repeat and want to emphasize that I don’t know if the actual system allows for faster progression, someone will surely show some data and if there’s something going on the year scale, then it’s far most prestigious and grindier than any other Legendary in the game.

zinkz.7045:

The mode won’t prosper from the sort who are only there for shiny things, the only tiny benefit to the mode would be a small percentage of those may who haven’t tried it properly may find they quite enjoy it and stay, but really that pales into insignificance compared to the damage done to the mode by them neglecting the actual issues with it, and number of players who have left because of that.

Every major PvP Reward upgrade, being the Reward Tracks or the League system, prospered especially thanks to the shinies. Same with Fractals.
Both modes were damaged by bad decisions and balance in general, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be recovered and have people actually loving playing them.
If there were better rewards in general, surely there wouldn’t be a damaged community like today, and I wouldn’t even had such a low Rank. I like WvW, really, but lack of rewards and accomplishment really undermine people’s interest, and that’s why people were hoping for newer WvW Tournaments. We all know they helped for a while, even without any major changes in the mode itself.
Reward Tracks in WvW had little impact because they still felt grindy compared to playing other modes. Say what you want, but shinies being accessible do create interested communities, even beyond those rewards.
PvP Leagues are criticized because people still care, and most people got their Ascensions if they wanted it. Same with Fractals, that are now praised for their rework and people want more Challenge Modes coming. Not for the shinies now, but for the mode itself.

Rewards only make a game mode interesting to a certain niche of player, gameplay is what actually makes a game prosper.
Frankly the people who play games primarily for “rewards” are kitten on gaming and one of the reasons the MMORPG genre is in the state it is.

Rewards are the focus of every MMo. Plain competition is interesting only for those who strive for stuff like ESL, and we all know how it went.
Gameplay is important, and I really like WvW and feeling the bonding with the community of my server, but that can’t happen if the community feels like they’re playing for nothing.
It’s not a niche of players. the niche of players were those that were so few that we had to go into linking servers.
GW2 is a game where skins are the rewards and they always were the reason people cared about the gameplay concerning acquiring them. You’ll see almost nobody complaining that World Bosses are too easy because they don’t reward almost nothing in particular, but we’ve seen people asking desperately for exclusive skins in Wvw because they want to collect them.

All that said, I repeat furthermore that it’s not about having handed Rewards easily, but that they could be seen as accessible with the same degree of difficulty as the other way to play the game.
Do that, and newer people will care about the gamemode.
Set goals too hard to reach ( looking at you, 30k+ APs rewards ) and people will rarely bring up the issue.

Why do we have to battle about exclusivity for a mode that was so much neglected in the past and not embrace the newcomers to enjoy that with us, giving them a proper goal?

GW2 is not a fresh game, even MO acknowledged that by asking the playerbase to promote it, so let’s try to give proper goals to everyone without goals that they would not even reach in the same expansion cycle.

GrahamW.5397:

god forbid that the players who have stuck it out through almost 5 years get rewarded a bit more

They should be rewarded in a continuous way. Requiring years of playing a single mode on a modern MMo to get a skin is really not an incentive to newer players. I’m not saying that they should be gifted, but that they should be accessible.
It’s like the rewards for the 30k+ APs: they’re so niche and unreachable that people don’t even care. If you want a mode to prosper, you should give incentive and getting a really long grind spanning to even the year scale is not selling the mode to anyone.

These Rewards should be used to make WvW prosper and interesting to players, not to create further distance between Veterans and Newcomers.

Personally I expected something like 1000 rank, but still I don’t know if the new system will help gain ranks faster ( maybe WvW XP potions in the chests? ).
Requiring a person to play a mode regularly for 2 years seems too much to me ( even Legendary Armor require a lot less ).
I get it that it’s a mode that you should keep on playing, but I think that the reward should be more tied to the continuous reward you can get ( like the Pip system we already have, or reinstating Bonus WvW Chests in some form ).
I’ve not played WvW a lot but I did participare in the WvW tournaments intensively and did most of the achievements then ( except the dolyak ones, far from the regular WvW zergs ) and still have Rank 237. I don’t mind playing a lot of WvW to get some of those pieces, but 2000 is so far that it’s not even an incentive, especially for new players.

With the latest update, the anchor point for backpieces, shields and 2H weapons is closer to the back of the character in a more reasonable way.
However, I think there’s still a bug regarding shields during combat mode.
The shield is hovering too much from the hand during combat, and it seems to be the same hover applied from the Legendary Light gloves. With the gloves, it’s reasonable to have a more distant anchor point due to the “claws”, but for the chestpiece it’s totally unrelated.
I think this is an unintentional bug so I hope it gets fixed.

MO said there will not be a trailer for the light and medium Leg. Armors, so I don’t expect an announcement in that form or even a picture ( unless it’s from a press article just before the content release, like the newest Leg. Weapons ).
Also, I doubt we’ll get another Raid before the next expansion, since the time frame is short ( another LW Episode probably in August and possibly the next Expansion release at Q4 2017 – my guess is we’ll get an announcement at the E3 ).
However, I think that we should at least know if it’s coming with this episode.

Thank you for the heads up. I just want to ask one thing about the Legendary Armor, for whenever it will be released ( it could be possibly included with this episode, but we still have no confirmation ).
Can you tell us beforehand if there will be a sigil/rune swap system included with it?
I’m going to craft all the 3 sets so I’m sure that a lot of players working toward it will need this information so they can farm eventually the proper runes/sigils ( as a Mesmer, I’ll have to probably farm again Runes of Leadership ).

People are reporting that they have been losing Guild Buffs at every update. Is it the same case for you or it’s another bug entirely? Because if they’re related, then you could report and make it fixed easier.

Making Raid comps more stale and not flexible for newbies.
Having strict builds to not need stat/rune swapping.
Unimpressive Precursors for the Legendary Armor.
Is this a plan to make Leg. Armor unappealing to have so that we care less if it’s delayed even more? :-P

As always? Remember Alacrity? Or the Well of Precognition?

Glott.7239:

Lascax.2163:

Parallel Universes. I’m not joking.

…
mindblown

I’ll copypaste my theory posted on reddit.

Hear me out on this crazy theory ( SPOILER HoT Story ), but first here’s some speculation points I’ve made:
– Once I heard about a Prophecy being in the GW Lore that if the Magic would get too much unstable, Tyria will fall into the Mists
– Anomalies started to appear after Mordremoth’s demise, but there was also an anomaly at Thaumanova because there was an instability of the Leyline ( also it happened before Zhaitan’s death, so it’s possible the Leylines were unstable even then, but not like now ).
– Rytlock went back as Revenant after visiting the Mists. It’s clear that when he entered through the failed Ritual, he somehow got into unknown Mists caused by his act ( maybe there is even a Leyline in that place? ) and got his way back.
– Revenants started to appear, so people must have been visiting those Mists somehow since then ( maybe got into incidents like the Thaumanova ones or some Rifts ). Yeah, I’m accusing Rytlock to have caused more trouble to the Leylines through the Ritual.
Auris is an Aetherblade, acts like Thaumanova stranded asuras. I think he got into the Mists through the LA breach incident, during the Leyline excavation.
– Anomalies started to appear in the world after Mordy’s energy wave got through the Leylines. they mostly run away and they appear sad sometimes, even as a temporary mirage.

With those points, I think that Anomalies are just people stranded in the Mists that could not get back like Revenants. That’s why they’re mostly sad and rarely counter-attack. In fact when we transform as anomalies, we’re hostile to the others and we did cross some unstable rifts to cause that. Moreover, if we get back into the body we left in place, we’re back to normal.
But does it mean that all anomalies are people trying to get back in their bodies and that they could eventually do so? I THINK NOT. My speculation is that this explains WvWs maps in the Mists. Think about them: there’re armies that get arranged from time to time that battles each other in a plane that’s between the Mists. This means that parallel universes are real and that maybe those anomalies are people but NOT from our universe. Maybe even one universe where Tyria did fall into the Mists.

We’re killing people who got lost into the Mists from other universes.

NOTABLE ADDITION: [THIS THREAD ITSELF]
This proves that if you choose to experiment the Shadowstone on yourself, you’re going through a parallel universe.

Parallel Universes. I’m not joking.

+1 for Fix, even having bought the Crimson Mask i want this variation.

Removing the command line “-clientport 80” and running Administrator worked for me.

It’s for one of the Gift needed to make the Legendary Armor Pieces.
More info at: http://dulfy.net/2016/06/17/gw2-legendary-armor-collection-crafting-guide/
There are already placeholders in the forge about those Gifts.

I finally did it and it seems that the Defense Event at CoE will not repeat in some maps. I succeeded doing this and the Frainn Event only joining new fresh maps.

Confirmed bug multiple times and it seems to be reported in Verifying status in the Dev Tracker.
Anyway, were you able to get the Infinity Coil Commander entry? Do you need a failed defense Event at the CoE dungeon entrance? Because if it is so, it’s nearly impossible these days.

Thank you. I did like you said, but it seems there are no Attuned versions ingame, but a GM proposed me to exchange the items for the equivalent infused/basic version of a ring with the stats I want.
I decided to keep them for their rarity btw.
I think this thread can be closed.

I have 2 old Magic Find Rings ( Circle of Light & Armbrace of Truth ).
I was able to Infuse both of them but not to Attune neither of them.
I tried to do the Attunement both before and after the Infusion but neither of them worked ( I think the items are non-existant in the database in an Attuned form ).
Can we expect a fix for this? If not, can we ask a refund for their Laurel costs?

Will Heart of Thorns content be available to download prior to the unlock of the content? Or is it already into our client?
Also, is the Halloween Update coming at the exact time of the HoT content unlock?

I knew it! Did I win a Character slot?

Is the Revenant version we will be able to play complete in its trait lines? Or is it limited like the one we have seen on the first Pve Beta?

Hi there fellows!
Like most of you, I’m an avid player of GW2 and I would like to ask if there are actually any ways to contact Arenanet about coverage deals or similar.
I’m asking this because in these months I’ve been collaborating with an Italian project that wants to bring infos to our fellow compatriots.
Since we are currently lacking of an official localization ( but not passion! ), we are doing News translantions along with Community Articles and, personally, Youtube’s videos about recent News, Speculations and Beta Tests.
I hope to have an official answer about this or some advice on how we can be noticed by Colin-senpai for a Coverage program.

You are considering that the pool of chances can be restricted or related. The P probabilty you say is not applicable since the chance is equal with every single try. It’s like saying that throwing a coin has a 1/10000 chance to have it standing vertical on the ground, but in reality throwing that coin 10000 times does not get you closer to get that result.

RabbitUp.8294:

Actually, it does. There’s always an RNG factor, but your chances of getting the protal increase based on how much you farm.

That’s a false misconception. The chance of the single try is not related to the other ones, so the sense of having a greater chance by time is not real. Prove of that is that even if unlikely, there are people out there who farmed since the announcement and still didn’t get anything.

I tried to get it for about 16h, during exams prep and I kinda have to get it ( I’m doing Italian GW2 Coverage since HoT announcement ).
Today I got it, fearing that the new patch will get away this chance.
It was awful, and I thought so since the announcement, forcing senseless grinding made me hate the Maguuma Wastes even before the HoT release. Anyway, even if I was not forced to get it, I still think it’s not a good way to keep people logging in.
Would it have been nicer if the Portal could be dropped in any part of the game? Yes, definetly.
Is it actually a good method to get Beta Tester? Absolutely not, imo.
I got in the first Beta and reported 5 crash logs + made a video to share for my community, and I was still forced to grind like crazy for it.

If only there was a deal to guarantee coverage and reports to get into the Beta…

Chris, you did the EXACT same thing my friend did when we discovered a cheater in our old game server project. The youtube video is still out there but it’s related to another MMo. I don’t want to link it here for this reason but I want to let you know you were not the first. ;-)

Thank you, I thought that FAQ was not specific to the first Beta Event and I’ve oversighted that statement.

As the title says, is the new item mandatory to obtain also for the people who were chosen for the first Closed Beta? Or do we get access to the next ones automatically?

I’m very interested in this because I’m making a series of videos about my Beta Experiences for the Italian Community and I hope to continue to do so even if I will be unlucky.

Tested the CI Lockdown from Dethl and I’ve gotta say it went better than expected. Went 3-1 for now, with one losing very close, all PUGs.
Its role seems good on roaming/support during the final rushes and I enjoyed the most on stalling the opposite team rushes to supply. Its best part is, as Dethl said, on stopping Warhorn’s Channeling, but it’s really good on keeping grounds in other occasions too.

Here’s an image from one recent video I’ve made, just for a more visual input.

Hello Everyone!
Refining the format I’ve decided to change from the weekly basis to a “regular but not fixated” period for my videos. There are not always a lot of things to discuss ( and speculate! ) about the game that people like BogOtter and WoodenPotatoes already explain in a detailed way in their videos. Also I want to focus on the speculation part so if the format proves to be followed I will continue with them!

On the 4th video I will talk about:

• BETA Stress Test Reveals + BONUS Speculation
• Condition Update influence on the Metagame
• Precursor Crafting & Speculations about Legendaries
• Trading Post Speculations on a lot of stuff!

Hi everybody,
I am one of the lucky players who got the invitation for the Beta Stress Test.
I would like an official source/response regarding what we can share about our experience.
In particular:
1. Can we livestream our test?
2. Can we talk about the experience later?
3. Can we share videos/pictures later?
4. Can we talk about improvements as well as bugs we’ve encountered?
5. Are there any infos we should not share ( aside from account infos, which shoud just be obvious :-P) ?
Thank you immensely for this opportunity and see you all in the Maguuma Jungle (( sooner or later )!

Do you like to know what happened the last days on GuildWars2?
Which were the News that got player went crazy?
Do you want to speculate about the future? Or just gain some more gold from the Trading Post?
This is Mistwalker News, my semi-periodic News recap & Speculations.

23/02 #1: Revenants, Farming & Financial Fights
02/03 #2: Upgrading Elements & Fashion Speculation
09/03 #3: PAX East 2015 & Masteries unveiled
01/04 #4: BETA Reveals & Legendary Speculations

I’m starting this Thread to avoid making a new discussion for every video so I can update just this one in the next weeks. I hope that you will enjoy watching my contributions to the Community. Let me know what you think about my speculations and every suggestion about my videos!

See you in the Mists!

Hello again everyone!
I’ve made a second video for what I hope will be a followed series about GW2 News & Speculations.
This time unfortunately I was a little sick, so my voice wasn’t on its full power, but I successfully finished recording it.
Trying to refine the format, I’ve made it shorter and tried to get a better montage of everything in the video. I would really like to know your opinions about it, from the good to the harsher ones, I really need them! Also I would like to add that fromt his week my Channel will be featured in the GW2 News App made by Gokuofuin.9127 that you can download here .

This time I talked about these topics:
Camera Upgrade and Stability Changes: how these changes will influence our way to play and enjoy the Tyrian enviroment & the possibility of the Stability Changes coming soon on the next major patch
HoT Previews: Defiance & Visual FX: I analyzed how the Defiance System will be rewritten in Heart of Thorns and how this could change the metagame. Also I talked about the upcoming GW2 FX upgrades
ArenaNet Press Conference who went to this not-so-secret Conference, when the News will be spoiled by the Journalists and what these News could be about
Fashion Speculation how the new Dye Menu Update influenced the Market and how the datamined items can be kitteneful source for further speculation

Let me know if you find it interesting and see you in the Mists!

Already posted here since I had no replies.
Since it’s related to generic News & Speculations, I’ll stick here for now, maybe I will then go to the TP section if I see more people interested in it.
TY for your answer!

I am focused on GW2 and I hope to have the time to make a new video on a weekly basis.

Good News Everyone! Or maybe not… but we can certainly speculate together :-D

This is my first video about GuildWars2 and I want to know what you think about it and if you would like to see more. My objective is to give to the Guild Wars 2 Community a re-cap of the latest News but focusing more on those that are more underground, like the Reddit discoveries and speculations.
The video is about 30m and I’ve put a permanent bar to navigate through the News if you just want to get a particular News or watch it in more sessions.

The arguments for this week are these:
Revenant & Boon Updates: an analysis of every new mechanics that these updates could bring
Silverwastes: how the population could change over the time and for how long it could be a viable way to farm
The Nexon Situation: a summary of what happened between
NEXON & NCSoft, some recent updates and a little opinion of how it could affect GW2 players _
Trading Post Speculation: _a discussion about how the prices of certain items have changed, how others could be a profitable investment and a little speculation on how to deal with the Legendaries

I hope to have enough feedback to have at least a general idea about this project of mine and let me know what you liked and/or what not.

http://youtu.be/ijNFLmP_uns

Now tell me that I’m a cool guy.

Hi,
I would like to know where to publicize a video that I’ve made and if it is not considered SPAM by the moderators. My video is about underground news regarding GW2, and in particular I’m starting this series of videos talking about how the Silverwastes population could change over the time, the Nexon Situation and a lot of Trading Post analysis.
Also I would be very glad to know if there are other places where I could promote this first video and see how it will be received.

Zemarye, going for 484!