Guild Wars 2

Haven’t been able to take part in the karka queen event yet, tried 3 times and each time i’ve had the worst luck ever. ganked by a troop of karka just before the gates, had to res at a different camp that wasn’t contested at the time, then was as soon as i rezoned and got stomped by 4 drakes. so fed up.

Well, lets face it.
Living Story is inconsistent in both the content and quality. we just had loads of mini solo/group dungeons and an entirely new dungeon for 2 weeks replaced with re-hashed content, a few farmable chests then a 1 room instanced “boss” mechanic the undermines the very reason you chose your profession and now yet another Meta-Event" that is more of the same re-hash.

A waiver of all rights to intellectual property in exchange for the assurance that it’s used in the way and for the reason it was supplied is not a hard document to supply or to agree to.

Good point regarding the armour styles, however I suspect there would be many of each type submitted so I guess it would be a case of choosing a light/med/heavy out of all those submitted.
Scaling armour to fit character models and balancing vertex wieghts isn’t rocket science and is no where near as time consuming as I would imagine Molton Facility was.
It’s not that I don’t like Living Story, more that I don’t like kitten content In exchange for my time and £, and as I’ve previously said I like the game and I understand the Dev’s have alot on their plate with this and if that’s the case 1 of 2 things need to happen. Buy more Dev’s or change direction.

We’re aware that people want new armor skins. I want new ones as well, and we’re working on things. Armor skins are much more time/resource consuming and difficult as opposed to weapons.
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Why not have a monthly or bi-monthly(as in every 2 months) collaboration with the player base to design a new armour set. Utilize your player base instead of holding us at arms length while trying to impress us with rushed content. I’m sure I’m not the only 3d artist that plays gw2 that’s frustrated in seeing a decent mmo growing slowly stagnant, not due to any lack of love I’m sure, but pushing out monthly content to a monthly deadline that cannot feasibly be met with such a small team.

I’m pretty sure a set of amour, per month would not increase time and resources if Living Story content was ditched. Sorry if that’s rather harse, there’s a lot I like about this game. I don’t want to spend my free-time looking for another mmo again, do the level grind again, do the gear grind again but with the way things have been recently and unless there’s a significant change, I’m gone.

So my idea would be hold a monthly colab/comp and set a theme that the armour is to relate to. Create a gallery of moderated image’s and have people +1 the ones they like. Once the new armour is chosen and is magically available in game you have the option of either grinding out 2k badge’s from an existing dungeon to buy the set or put it in the TP for gems, hell, I’d pay in blood to see my warrior in amour I had a hand in designing. Everyone I know, would know that I had a hand in making something that is in a game they can be apart of it too. You may also find you have enough spare time to work on an expansion…..;-)

Which brings me to my next point. Players will feel more involved as a community and more inclined to play instead of “pin balling” across mmo’s when met with rng disappointment. All mmo’s do the lock box thing, it’s not new and i’m sorry but most do it better too. When you spend money in NeverWinter the lockboxes put out, The rng currently implemented in gw2 is bad, if you pay cash then you should get something. I’d be more inclined to part with my cash if I knew I would certainly be rewarded in some way.

In short, I want to support Anet, I like whats on offer, but I want it without the stuff that’s not fun.

Sorry if there are any typo’s etc, just had a lovely BBQ and too much beer.

Go Team Anet!!!

Epic.3950:

Axe/mace or axe/shield are better combos than axe/axe IMO

Try Greatsword/Hammer : 10-25-15-0-20 might wanna run with a bit of knights/valk gear tho.

dont wanna turn this into a build post but where are you going with this. Well over 100% crit chance with unsuspecting foe and no merciless hammer leads me to believe you are rellying more on GS for killing which doesn’t work out too well in WVW personally I find speccing defensively Is more rewarding with knights/valk(or cavalier)

I don’t play WvW, just need the aoe from hammer/GS to tag mobs or mobility within a large pull. with trinkets, adren at max and fury you can run at 78% crit. alternating Fgj and SoF fury is very rarely out of reach

Try Greatsword/Hammer : 10-25-15-0-20 might wanna run with a bit of knights/valk gear tho.

Noticed the some of the skelk are missing from the north shore line where there used to be a lone karka swimming in the water too. /sigh

I like gw2, the lore, the level design, I like how my toons look despite the shared armour models. I like the combat, it’s very satisfying.

But atm i can’t think of 1 good reason to log in for the living story event.

The new content is a let down, as a warrior (Ham/Gs) combat is reduced to hit something>downed state>rally>downed state>rally>heal>hit something>downed state or grab a rifle and undermine all your melee weps OR trying to run away from drakes carring 9 stacks of condition that you had previously cleansed.

If I decide to farm then I’m limited in time and to bad rng.

There is no reason to take out all the vet karka for the 1 shell it drops, I already have all the shells I will ever need, and lets face it, apothecary gear will never be a profitable as it was.

Give us content where we can use our characters skills, I chose a warrior because i like to get up close, I like melee weps I don’t want to have to pick up a generic weapon that turns everyone into the same class, it undermines the whole point of the reason we choose to login on the character we feel like playing today.

you have me until the end of Ssc event, then i’ll decide if i should stay or go.

I 2nd the motion, nuke it, make sure they don’t cut the power, don’t fall to sleep in a med-lab isolation room with a creepy English girl with a bad accent and avoid a face-hugger attack. Gaffer-tape said girl to your pulse rifle to make sure she doesn’t fall through an over-sized ventilation spinny wheel thingy, if she does manage to get lost, leave her for dead because she’ll prob won’t make the sequel anyway and finally check the landing gear before take off……it’s the only way to be sure.

Worst game mechanic ever. not fun.

Once upon a time having the bragging rights to that shiney, spikey, over-sized weapon mean’t you had accomplished something pretty impressive, not just gotten lucky with numbers.
Anet, your doin it wrong!…..again!

Why not have a currency drop in such boxes that can be used to purchase some of the items that have a chance to drop from these boxes, wouldn’t feel like such a kitten er when you spend ages farming and get bugger all.

2nd day of 0 drops. If this is just rng my sympathy goes out to you guys that haven’t had any drops. it must suck. I don’t mind not getting a token, but i’d like the chance to get a crate or 2 per day at least.

I’ve been farming on and off all day and haven’t had a crate all day and i’m not the only one. A guy on map chat said there had been a stealth nerf, is this true?

Getting xp, so prob just rng, thanks for the help.

So i’ve been playing with a reflection build and was trying it in ssc against karka, it seems it i use reflection to kill or help kill a mob it doesn’t go towards tagging the kill. Is this well known and i’ve just missed it? I have tried it for the best part of 40 mins and every time i use any type of reflect I can’t loot.

Just wondering how this is applied, I thought it was a melee range aoe how ever i still get stacks on my mes from ranged.

Firstly I just want to point out that all this technique does is increase the kill rate of mobs, it doesn’t guarantee that crates will drop more often, but more kills = more chances.
There are a few people already using this method and most profs can do this, the most effective i’ve found is warrior and engineer. You need to be comfortable with strafing so if your a keyturner this may be awkward for you.

Warrior: swim around and proximity pull hostile mobs while harpooning passive mobs, don’t kite them too far from their spawning point or they will rubberband.
gather 5-10 mobs then use FGJ and spear5 to kill them and repeat.

Engineer: Use bombkit and elixers and swim over everything you want to kill continually spamming bombkit1, you will have to circle strafe a little to round up your kills. Enigineer can perma pull mobs this way and never get hit unless you sneeze, mouse batteries die or you get attacked irl.

thats it. With 290% mf, I’ve looted 61 armoured scales, 34 powerful bloods, 38 fangs(t6) and enough t5 mats to make 33 rare hammers for the mystic forge over 2 days of intermittent play

I know this isn’t anything new to most people but karka are a pain in the kitten to grind where as barracuda and skelks dropped faster then celebrities on tiger’s blood and sharing is nice.

goodluck.

Is anyone else having probs with Earthshaker not landing on the target reticule? I’ve noticed that sometimes it launches you forward max range from your starting position in the direction your facing.

Are bugged on gandara, wp’s are perma contested.

just checked my other toons outside SS and they’re fine, no skill lag.

Guess this means no seaside for my toons the summer.

Checked and reset router, puter. latency is fine on WoW. (26ms)

Skill lagg is really bad now, 20 secs to a minute. i can chat just fine and see everything thats happening but my skills just flash.

I get hit but don’t take damage until the spike has finished then i usually die as i can’t heal.

I can’t use wp’s or leave SS, when i try to port out to LA i insta DC and it puts me at kitten wp on re-entering the world.

this sucks!

Seem to get lag spikes whenever is use a skill and other players are around in southshore.

someone beat me to it. very annoying.

I don’t want to sound ungreatful, i enjoyed the dungeon, but i already have gloves with better stats what i don’t have is a jetpack.

If the next event is all about rng i will not take part.

The whole 2 weeks I have spent logged in have been a waste of my time and I will not let it happen again.

Ricochet- hits up to 3 targets inflicting vulnerability and cripple and face’s the target in the opposite direction.

I’d love a mh pistol.

same on Gandara.Fix your hamsters.

If this is the future of GW2 content, count me out.

Thinking about that Jetpack skin makes me sad panda.

Ran this dungeon so many times now it’s starting to wear thin. I organize the group, mark the priority kills, run a regen/dps build to try and raise the success rate as some people just don’t seem to even want to try on the last bosses. last time i ran the final boss i had to solo most of the first stage, managed to res a few peeps but they ate shockwaves, had to 3 man the final stage which took ages. With a good group it takes 30-40 mins, i was there for 2 hours with one group! my point is i’m putting alot of effort in to these runs but getting very little reward for that because of RNG.

RNG has had it’s time, It’s not needed now, there needs to be a better way to implement these sought after prizes other then pure luck or buy it from an over priced economy.

I will keep trying, but every run builds a little more resentment towards RNG and it’s place in the game..

The effect is bigger then the red circle.

This set will be great for wvw.

Nice one!

I can see how this is solo-able, I managed to solo about 7mins of the first stage when the rest of my team ate a kitten. Might have a go at it too. any tip on the trash?

My phantasmal Warlock died from sneezing before he could cast. happens alot, and i have the +20% hp boost too. :/

However it is possible to shatter on the last bosses but it takes timing and a mid to close range drop. I use mirror image, dodge roll away and shatter then phant duelist, dodge again, staff 2 and shatter, Tho i’m specced for healing shatters, if it hits it’s a bonus.

Run the F&F dungeon 3 times tonight and the loot actually made it worth the time and effort!

My only grumble is that if i die on the final boss fight, I’m perfectly capable of walkin my kitten back to the boss area 30ft from the way point. I don’t need a loading screen to place me next to an understandably grumpy, 25ft, half char-half blackndecker hammer drill with a bad cases of the shakes and his mate lumpy. I haven’t felt as confused and panic’d since the time I passed out after a Distillers gig while my gf hoovered my pyjama bottoms.

Decoy seems to fail a lot when used after or que’d against a previous skill. had a 10 min skirmish where i must’ve used decoy close to 20 times. I noticed it fails to turn you invisi if que’d after a channel or a heal.

I’ll test it some more before posting anything in the game bugs but if you guys could also help to verify it too would be appreciated.

Can’t believe I’ve only just found this. Gandara is my home server too. I shall see you all this coming friday, all Mes runs sound great.

I agree with the op re: dungeons. Trash mobs are just no fun and require all party members to skill into counter mechanics, focus down mobs from a far with the occasional melee scuffle when your hp and endurance can afford it.
If i could change one thing in GW2 I would make trash encounters into place of wonderous carnage and great stress relief. Mobs would be more melee friendly, have higher health pools to counter the increased damage they will receive and not require so many different counters per pull. There are a great range of mobs in GW2, it wouldn’t be a problem to scale the difficulty of mobs throughout the dungeons and paths. This would stop trash skipping and make the dungeons a lot more accessible to the casual player.
At this time, Some the dungeons require an average level of commitment and understanding with insane roadblock mechanics that just aren’t fun to overcome. I’m not saying i want it easy,just fun. My old WoW guild of 7 years(Vox Populi) and my brother and his friends have already left, I’m still here atm because I enjoy WvW roaming for the moment.
Anet says it wants to keep both the average and the committed gamer on an even keel but some dungeons are just too hard for the average gamer to enjoy and the committed are penalized for the time they spend online grinding.

If people are to return to GW2 this needs attention.

I used to have trouble with Mmesmers. So i leveled one. They’re fine, it’s a lt kitten ue.

Maybe the scaling between confusion and attack speed/swing timer on champions/boss mobs could be a viable fix?

i’m logged in atm, playing my mesmer and i keep getting error code- 42:1000:9001:4116:101
It say’s that the game client can’t reach the login server. Does this mean my account has been compromised?

Running a hammer/GS build atm and loving it, with mobile strikes i’m hardly ever not on my target

I looked up the aggro mechanic on GW2Wiki. It works on the players distance / damage, abilities in use can cause the mob to switch, like ressing another player or dps’ing an encouter mechanic. Armour rating and use of a shield factors in the mobs threat table too but less then the other factors

I used to run CoF p1 as a zerker team. I used to be pretty elitist with group build too until until i was present when a “regular joe” player got kicked after a truck load of abuse by an idiot with a warrior. I’ve since gone for the more tanky approach with Hammer/GS, it’s a hell of alot more fun for me then zerker playstyle plus i don’t have to be a kitten to other players. Elitists can keep CoF, there’s more to this game then speed running 1 path repeatedly.

It’s great for pvp, not so if there are non-clipping scenary between your toon and the camera tho.

1UP!

The content could be changed to suit each seasonal holiday. love it either way.

I’m currently working on wvw map completion and I’ve bumped into a few roamers recently and had some pretty funny scuffles.

While fighting a warrior I noticed he was breaking my immobilise and snare using his GS, I’m not so clever when it comes to pvp mechanics, however I after noticing this i moved closer to a cliff and laid on some cc. It was only a matter of time until he went spinning of the edge.

Also met a ranger that after downing me (had my map up at the start) let me rally for a 2nd bout which i returned the courtesy.

While farming a few skritt, my fps suddenly dropped, my skills began to lag out. as i turned the camera i started to take damage. 2 seconds later i was dead, steam rolled by the whole enemy zerg so it seemed.

Thanks for all the pleasant comments guys. I love you too.

And miss the events…

My highest crit is 28K final swing on HB full zerker gear, power sig, banner and OMM. I also stacked a bit of Vun first using and axe with bloodlust and GS with Battle. took me ages to get all the boons correctly lined up and some mobs just walked out of range >< had to try it on the vet sparks around the CoER in SoM.

Wasn’t really thinking of a nerf, Red, I’m sure it wouldn’t ruin the map for gaming gods like yourself if the AI’s skill priority was adjusted to not fire off a cc as the opening move or maybe space out putrifiers to lessen chain cc.

Please, lets not turn this into flaming. i’m an average player sure, i like a challenge too and if you don’t agree fine. But try being constructive instead of condescending, maybe there’s something i’ve overlooked or a mechanic i don’t know about.