Guild Wars 2

In pve just about any weapon is usable and can do decent damage if used with the right traits and skills. Axe I find better with minions though. Although the new skill change on 2 axe makes it kind of decent. Although to me still a bit slow at times. But dagger to me tends to kill faster without minions. Although the stacking vuln helps in some instances with vets and elites.
If you like axe and daggers just equip axe and and off hand and then dagger with whatever off hand you like.
As for fractals I can’t help you there. Can’t seem to find time or people to help me level in it.

I am just going by the post and you say you checked all the hearts. Now if you just checked the hearts you will only have 4. The fifth stone is at the unbound energy vender. I only pointed that out because one day I looked over all the hearts and couldn’t figure out why I was one kittenill I remembered that the fifth is bought with unbound energy.

update post: opps sorry missed you said you checked that vender me bad.

The wiki explains it better. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Map_bonus_reward
But it is based on points gained per event. Once the point is achieved you gain the bonus. But as for when it is close I can only guess by keeping mental count unless someone else knows a better way.

I find it odd that it would be a network problem only at that specific cut scene. Plus I have actually checked as best as I am able for network problems. Had a lot of problems when I first got the game but found out it was the computer. About the only time I have ever disconnected or in essence got booted was when it was the busiest time of the day, in my area, and that has only happened 3 times since I got the game, and I have played it since beta. I didn’t even get kicked during the karka in LA chaos.
And as for a ticket, I probably should but I am sure they have lot more difficult and important things to check out. Plus I don’t have a char I plan on going through that in the immediate future so I have no way to check to see if it is working or not. Taking a char through that episode the second time has never caused me to be kicked just the first time I take a new char through.
I know there is a lot going on in Anet but since it happens a lot to me I thought I would at least post in bugs and they can check it at their leisure. I do have other alts to take through but have no plans on doing it in at least the near future with sab and the need to outfit other char with ascended.
But thanks for the suggestions.

Every time I take a character through forging the pact I get disconnected and have to start over, some times multiple times, when the cut scene happens as you leave the cave. I have sent multiple in game bug reports but I don’t even know if they get to the right place since I have to report after the fact after I relog in.
It lets me see the cut scene all the way through then disconnects me to character choice. I have tried different things, different ways and it doesn’t seem to have a rhyme or reason that I am seeing.
I have several more alts I need to take through and it is just kittening me off more and more each time I take one because you don’t allow us to skip it or give us an quicker way to do this long tedious episode.

If it was just a skin in your inventory then you have to go to your wardrobe and reapply the old skin. If it was an actually item with a skin you wanted then you just have to reequip the old armor or weapon.

Okay getting really annoyed how after I harvest a plant and start walking away it then freezes me in place for 1/2 a second to a full second unable to do anything what so ever.
Please fix or give me the option to exchange it for a permanent tool that doesn’t have some annoying effect. I love skritt but come on, fear? Why would my char use a fear response when a point effect would make a lot more sense, or even a “over here” effect.
And the fear effect doesn’t even active on half my characters. For instance I only have had it create the fear effect on my asure maybe 3 times out of all the times I used the tool with an asura.

Ashantara I have been playing the game since beta so shards are not something I am needing. Plus there are other places to get shards. I tend to get one in a drop at least once a day. But the statement was meant to say if they never remove the requirement of killing a boss in a raid then those of us that have no intention of ever playing a raid of any kind will never be able to get xp. It was not meant to say xp is useless in general. Sorry for the confusion.

It appears to me that the conversation went on a tangent to what I was suggesting. Keep in mind it was just a hope that it was possible to remove the blinking xp numbers on the screen. I am not a programmer and have no clue how easy or hard it would be to do.
But I by no means was trying to imply that the mysteries in HoT should be changed. I personally don’t care about getting more shards. Granted I do like seeing the xp bar go up but I have become accustomed to it being empty and truthfully don’t care if I am able to get xp in HoT. I just wanted the numbers to stop popping on the screen.
I have never tried raids but that is by personal choice. I, at this point, have no desire to do any raid and don’t expect or have a desire for them to change how it is done at present. I have full mysteries in core Tyria so I can get go there if I desire to see the bar move, or simply create a new character.
I had forgotten all about this post a while back because I just posted it as a suggestion. But by all means if you all want to debate an issue that has been on the forums for a while now be by guess. But just to be clear I was just wanting the numbers to stop popping up. And to tell the truth I would love to at least have the option to stop the numbers popping on the screen even when leveling a new character.

I can’t tell anymore if I get credit. The display on the right doesn’t stay on long enough for me to catch it every time. I was in free fall just as he died and it took me a bit to get on solid ground. So if it did display I wouldn’t have notice. I don’t always notice when that pops up anymore since there were other events I wonder if I had gotten and only realized I did when I found an event chest in my inventory.
So I don’t know if I got event credit or not. And if I didn’t there really needs to be a major overhaul on how we get credit if I can’t get credit for doing constant damage on the npc. But as I said I don’t know if I did or not since I don’t know any way to check if I miss the pop up.

yes Hablion in Bloodstone Fen. I really shouldn’t post when frustrated.

What use is having a daily in a new area if I am unable to get it?
I sat waiting for around 10 min for hab and even did the pre for it. But after it died I got zero credit for it. What use is having a daily that I can’t obtain despite fighting it from the beginning?

Since it appears that for those of us that have no desire to do raids xp will be useless for us, I would like appreciate the xp from popping up on my screen. It is a useless number to me and at times very distracting.
Since I have no plans nor desire to ever play in a raid, removing those numbers from my screen would be helpful since they distract because I have to stop and think of why they are on there in the first place.

I finally was able to get a screenshot of an odd load bug when I first pop into an area. This does not happen every time and the area seems to be random to me. It takes a while for the visuals to fully load some times and other times it takes less then a second. I have all the visual settings set to the lowest possible because I like performance over the extra visuals.

I had to ask just in case I am missing something, but I was under the impression that dailies is used as an incentive to do things in areas of the game. But with the cold elixir you are loosing not gaining much if anything. The daily only gives 25 um but uses 10 berries that you don’t get back. And each berry can gain 25 um minimum by itself according to the wiki. so you are in essence loosing more then 250 um. Now you do gain a small portion of karma, but that to me does not justify it as a daily. And then there is the bonus of xp. Which if you have not gotten every mastery done is useless and wasted.
So where is the incentive or even reason for this daily?

I thought it was just me that the foes where acting funny to. I’ve noticed the, I think brutes with the great swords, will come at me with a swirl attack then wander off aimlessly for a second or two then do the spin attack and repeat. Do they just have one attack or something? Then the casters will aoe and as soon as I get out of the aoe they will walk back a few steps and turn and just look at me. Did I confuse the AI or something?
And on a side note I was debating on either using BfF or bf for Bitterfrost Frontier. But as already mentioned using bf can get a bit confusing with bloodstone fen and bff may get confused as Best friend forever. LOL

My settings are on the lowest all ready. To me it is a lot smoother running that way. I didn’t think of a support ticket. But I think that is just because it is just on that cinematic and only on new characters. And I don’t plan on making any more new char for a while. And on some other story instances I did get dc’ed but not really sure if that was the game or just my ISP since at the time my ISP was acting up too.
Plus since it just happens once per char and I don’t plan on making another new one any time soon it would just take up there time without a way to check if it worked.

Okay getting annoyed every time I take a new char through the episode of Forging the Pact I get dc’ed at the end of the cinematic when the wraith says it lured, trapped us.
In most other episodes I can skip the cinematic to keep from getting kicked but that one I can’t skip and will get kicked every time with a new character. It being one of the longer episodes doesn’t help with the frustration.
I am not a programmer but there has to be some way so I can avoid the auto kick after that every time.

As already mentioned whatever you set in traits and skills will remain in lower levels. I actually don’t even do my story till I am at least level 60, mainly because by the time you get to orr in the story you are just a few levels under 80 or actually 80.
With the 80 booster it doesn’t affect anything other then your personal level and what will be unlocked for your char, trait and hp wise. You will just find that if you equip your char for 80 that a lot of the items you get in the story as a reward will be useless to you. But most you can sell, or salvage, and the others can be put in the mystic toilet.

Okay why is it that the little crabbies that the rotten destroyers summon can do as much if not more damage then the destroyers but you can’t rally off them? I would think anything other then maybe structures that do damage to my character would allow one to rally.

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TheOrlyFactor.8341:

Guys, c’mon. This is clearly a bait thread. :\

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I know but was in a mood. Just wish that pic was visible on the post itself it looses a bit of its umph having to press two links to see it. Course I can’t say much I don’t even know how to add a pic to a post.

Believe what you want it doesn’t matter what I type or even say because you feel you are right and everyone else is wrong. And it doesn’t matter how one types or even talks the recipient will take what they want and as you have shown you choose to be just argumentative. But I do find it funny that you jumped to the conclusion that I was saying leave when I also said other points of what you could be doing. Plus I commented on the mounts when you later said you were more wanting speed. So my comment could have easily been skipped since I actually jumped back on something you said was not the point of your post. But as already said I don’t care what you thought I was trying to say so play or don’t play it doesn’t affect me. I was just trying to point out that there are things to do other then just getting from point a to point b. But I doubt that matters to you so my post are mute are they not?

Darkrayne.5614:

Ah, the “if you don’t like it, don’t play” reply. Took a little longer than usual. Now head to the class forums and say that to everyone criticising almost every single skill in the game.

I didn’t say don’t play I said go back to the one that got you addicted. You can ride your pony there and then come back here and use way points. You are making assumptions on what I said. No where in there did I say don’t play. Guild wars is set up so you can play it and go off to another and come back without the worry of a fee. Just because we do not agree with your ideas does not mean we are saying leave.

And I will never understand why everyone wants to get some place in a bigger hurry. There are foes along the route to wherever, to kill. Kill them and get some extra loot. If people would quit just running across the map to get to a place that isn’t going anywhere maybe they would actually find out there is other things to do then just run in a game. Every event in the game has a timer or a series of events that lead up to the big event. So just watch for the chain events and maybe even get some extra loot along the way. If you want mounts then go back to the game that got you addicted to them. Guild wars has never had mounts and I don’t see the devs changing their mind about that. They just add different modes like gliding. Which personally I find lot more fun then a boring mount.

I got rather amused as some tried to attack me after I goofed and glided down to far. I landed right next to Grumby. Wasn’t on purpose, but I just had to say “um ouch”. LOL it was when I realize the game actually changes your attack faction.

Christina.7926:

To some extent. Particularly in HoT, it becomes significantly more difficult to just run on by. Some professions are easier to avoid mobs with than others, but when you are forced to fight a mob and it’s an annoyingly difficult one, it would be nice to see something come out of it – other than a pittance of XP and a porous bone ([&AgFLTAAA]).

I’d be all for implementing a change that would make mobs in each map (not just fractals) have a chance of dropping something shiny for players. That, or just more XP.

Odd HoT is where I do most of my running through. But I do see how it might be difficult in some cases. But adding xp to a junk npc foe will not make them more desirable to kill in that area anyway. A lot in that area are not interested in the xp more then the MP or getting to the event. So those annoying little pains are doing what they are designed to do in that area, to be an annoyance and slow you down to keep from getting to an event to accomplish it.
Isn’t that the purpose of trash mobs anyway? Even Champs in the game call up trash mobs that give bubkis just to make it more difficult to kill the champ or even legendary. And an insignificant foe still can drop the odd exotic from time to time. That is where I get most of my random exotics from.

I think the way it is set up works quite well. The xp is more from events anyway so no real need to up the xp off them. So those that are just interested in xp can kill a few and focus more on the events without feeling they have to kill everything they run into. Or watch for the champs that pop up for the better loot.
And for those like me that just like killing for the killing of it, we get something but not to worried about paying attention to what is dropped that we are distracted from the fun of killing the pains in the …
So I think the set up works. If you don’t think they are worth it you can just run past like most I see do. But for me that leaves a lot more to kill along the way to beat out my daily frustrations.

Healix I did think of the videos being sped up but it appears the same in every video that they don’t have to wait to change to another target. My camera is moving at the same speed theirs is but the bullet has a longer delay then theirs. And it is because of the delay that I am taking so long to shoot a target. Granted I don’t know if that is significant to cause the low hit but I have noticed it.
And the event chain was done and over with. I was there several times to help finish the event to get some extra karma but there is always two frogs that will walk into the camp and start attacking you. I was in the covered area in the back when they aoe poison or whatever that is and kill me before I realize I am even getting hit. And it is non stop with only a short time before the next couple attack.

And thank you MithranArkanere and Zoltar MacRoth at least I know I am not alone in this one. I guess for me it just isn’t worth the mysteries if I have to deal with this much aggravation.

Okay I have watch several videos and attempted several times since HoT came out to do the shooting Gallery. I thought at first I just sucked but I noticed that my character takes longer to shoot the rifle then what is shown on the videos. On the videos they shoot then move their rifle and still hit the target but when I move my rifle after pressing the key it shoots where I stop the moving not where I shot originally. So I have to stop moving completely to hit anything and if I even slightly bump my mouse I loose the shot. Not counting there is one that I shot at 5 times in about the same spot before it even registered I hit it. And there are two frogs that come in on a constant basis while I am shooting and stop me from the adventure half the time. So every time I think I get the timing down some frog comes in the middle of me shooting and makes it impossible to get even a silver. And the most shots I ever got in it is about 21.

Thanks Danikat. I did learn how to use the extractors eventually. LOL I think I wasted about 4 before I did though. But now that they have the specific part extractors it will be a bit easier then it was for a lot of people that did it at the beginning. And thanks so much for the bar explanation. I was wondering how that filled and if it was significant. now I know what to watch and work for.

CaelestiaEmpyrea.2617:

First of all, you do NOT need to have all 4 outposts held to get a breach, but holding them does speed up progress. And yes, the only way to get all the Mordrem guts is to get a Breach. It still happens frequently, just not continuously the way it did when Silverwaste was new.

Thanks. I must have just not been there long enough. I’ll have to find time to be there a bit longer to figure out what is exactly going on. Got a bit frustrated a few times because I kept dying. But I am learning not to swarm when mordrem is trying to reclaim. It very big ouchy. LOL

Danikat.8537:

Have you tried using the LFG tool to look for active maps?

I don’t know about NA servers but on EU it’s still done multiple times per day. The problems is as soon as a map makes some progress people will start using the LFG tool to get people to join, and when that’s happening the game sees it as the map filling without help and so it won’t put new people into that map. Which means if you just go there and hope for the best you’re very unlikely to end up on a map that’s making any kind of progress.

But if you open the LFG tool and go to Central Tyria – Squads you’ll probably see at least a few being advertised. It will usually say something like “SW 50%” with the percentage being how close to the bar filling up and the Breach event starting it is.

The other option, if you have time for it, is to try and get a map started yourself. One person can capture a fort and either hold it through the first defence event or (if you’re quick) capture a second one, either of which will make some progress.

While you’re doing that use map chat to tell people you’re trying to get an event map started, ask people to capture the other forts and to tag up if possible. If you have a mentor or commander tag turning that on lets people know they’re not alone in the map and makes it more likely they’ll stick around.

Then once you’ve got a bit of progress (holding 4 forts is best, but whatever you can manage) start to advertise the map in the LFG tool and you’ll get more people coming in which will speed up progress.

yeah tried the lfg tool. I do that multiple times before I post. But I must just be missing them. I did notice one day a commander tag just as I had to get off the game. So it may just be bad timing on my part. Will have to see if I can find the right time on NA servers.

Okay I am late for the party but I decided to try and get the achievement for Bioluminescence armor. But from my understanding you can only get the mordrem parts if the Breach happens and with all the new things just added no one is doing silverwastes at least while I am on. And from what I read you have to have all four post captured to get the breach. So am I just screwed or did I miss something?

I think they just found Old Lions Arch on our planet. LOL
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Thanks RoseofGilead I have not had a chance yet to get in game and try it out. I will be sure to equip it in advance.

Hopefully they don’t nerf the ability to pull it then. I will have to try it out some time.
As a necro I don’t know any other then maybe wurm that might get me out of it but now you have given me something to play around with to find out.

I didn’t think to check other achievement areas. I will have to do more digging next time. Thanks for letting me know.

Update: got the achievement. But I will have to say it would have been easier to just have a list of the events I didn’t accomplish. I guess I didn’t actually get credit for the last event I did. I thought I saw the event complete pop up on the right but must have been for something else.

Bee once the legendary appears and you start fighting it you can’t leave. There is a barrier that prevents you from leaving. But I do get where you are coming from. I just over typed my initial post. It isn’t that it isn’t soloable as much as the item gave no indication it was a legendary or at least a hint that it may require more then one. The item said it was for my char personally and in the past if it was indicated that it was just for the char it was soloable at least once one figured out what to do. But a legendary needs at least 2 people to do it especially with the mechanics I saw.

I check my achievement panel a lot, well at least while in the new areas. But all it has in the achievement is “outpost: pact encampment” since that is the only one left I have to do in ground pounder. The others I did without a hitch.
And I usually use the timer that is on the wiki, which is the same one as dulfy. I started with the clear area for the encampment. Took me a bit on the other two to realize to get that one you have to sit and wait at the location till daybreak to get it.
I know I probably just missing one event in the chain to get the achievement since at the end of the chain I didn’t have time to double check on dulfy if I was doing the correct event in the area. But there is nothing in the achievements that gives a list of what I got and what events in the chain I missed. And not even sure if I can just do each individual event different days or if they all have to be done in one go.

I just did all the events for the outpost: pact encampment and didn’t get the achievement for it. Well I should say I did every event I could find around it and even checked on dulfy to make sure I did all in the list for it. There is nothing in the achievements indicating what I missed or why I didn’t get the achievement like in some other achievements. How are we suppose to get it if there is no indicator as to what all needs to be done to get it? How am I to know what I exactly need to do to get it?

Keep in mind I am not posting this as a complaint but more as just information since I enjoyed even the epic failures with the legendary executioners.
But I found nothing to counter my comment earlier about needing at least 10 people to kill one. It took me four tries to kill one. The first three had between four to six people trying to kill it. But on the last one there was between ten and twenty of us and we killed it. And I will grant zerg may be a bit of an over exaggeration. Course I never really know how much is required for a zerg either since I have only played Guild wars.

As I mentioned in my post I know the item in my inventory mentioned I would be attacked but that was not my issue. I love fighting legionaries from time to time they keep the game challenging. But when an item is give to me in mail to do an event it is usually an indication that to some degree it is soloable, since unlike mails in the past that warn you it is a group event. But legionaries for an event that doesn’t indicate it is a group event is a bit pushing it for me.
I guess I am more curious if this is going to be the trend now. Putting things in that are unsoloable just after they made a point of saying they adjusted things in HoT so more of it is soloable. It just sound a bit contradictory to the adjustments they just made.
Now just an fyi I don’t have a problem now that I know what to expect and can prepare for it. But it was the lack of full warning that bothered me. A simple addition of the words “Group Event” on the note in my inventory at least would indicate to me that I can’t solo it. Or even something to the effect of “Be sure to have help for the executioners”

I don’t understand the purpose in one part of the game to make it easier for solo then out of the blue put a legendary boss just popping in on you. There is no explanation as to really why. Yeah the thing in your inventory says you are marked but things like that have been done in the past many times. Now champ sure, I would understand that. But a legendary in an event that most of the time, at least for me, only has five people. I don’t even mind if the champs had special defenses or attacks that one has to learn. But the five of us were trapped without warning or indication something would even happen and even with us surviving for some time with it we didn’t even do a noticeable amount of damage. And then I read on dulfy that it has ap. Come on 10 ap for a boss that takes at least 20 people to kill, 10 if you have an understanding of the boss and communication, is a bit underwhelming for something that for most will be impossible. And I say impossible because not all of us are able be on when everyone else is and zerg the thing.

I’m glad I am not the only one that has noticed this. I always thought the game was suppose to be designed to be cooperative not competitive in pve. Yet they make an event where one or a small group of people can make it impossible to get the achievement and no easy way to change it to make not competitive. Has the goal of being a cooperative game gone to the way side?

Obviously Anet is following the way entertainment is going and in that sense they are doing exactly what they said they would do. I remember them saying to the effect that they want to give the story like a show. Well how many shows are there out there that you want to just reach in and ring a neck or two. Or similar to this case just kill the antagonist off. And I used antagonist for a reason. We all know the bad guy is mordramoth but it is one of those bad guys that are more of an idea and unseen. So they put in a bad guy that we can hate and want to see die. Who knows there is one instance of an npc that a lot of players learned to hate and I personally feel got his just deserts maybe this one might too.

I just don’t understand why they even use the bobbles to get the stuff from Moto. They are charging coin for it anyway, why don’t they just charge coin for all the items. Other then the skins and a few misc sab items, the other stuff can be gotten without using coins. To me it defeats the purpose of playing SAB. Well other then just for fun but that is a given.

Danikat I am sure I just miss typed that about not doing something because it was an achievement because that is not the case. I won’t be getting any of the other mastery points in central tyria because the achievements that have the mastery points are ones I have tried and failed multiple times on. So it is more I just simply gave up on a grind I may never be able to accomplish. Quite a few of the mastery points are in achievements in the living story and I get so kittened off having to wait for npcs to either move or stop talking that I am so kittened off by the time I need to do the achievement that I can’t concentrate enough to accomplish it and just want out of the instance. If there was a way to skip the prattle in the story instances I probably could accomplish them. I know it is just a personal problem of mine.
And I have gotten all the mastery points I am able to in central tyria and still am unable to do more then just lvl one on fractal masteries. The other two are maxed out as you figured.

Warning this is a bit of a complaining thread (You have been warned)
I don’t post much if anything on these threads, because I am what one in millions of people that play the game and it seems that my wants never, ever go along with the crowd. Like the achievement idea. I never like it in gw1 and I still tend to avoid it in gw2 but yet it seems that anet and everyone in the game seems to think it is so important.
Now the mastery points are tied to them and I had to do achievements in central tyria just to get some of the mastery points needed. And I will never get the rest because it requires achievements in areas I don’t want to redo or don’t have a desire to even try them.
Is it so hard to find some events or activity in the general pve area to get them? I don’t know maybe something like the guild rushes, but one just for mastery points. I got the game to kill npc’s and gain neat skills not worry about some title I will never display. I know they now have instances for guilds to do other types of guild events so why can it be done so a group or even a single person can get some event to open to gain mastery points. Or even another idea would be to associate some mastery points with guilds so as to give more people reasons to be in a guild. Like spending so many commendations to gain a mastery point.
But as I have seen so many years in guild wars. I will not get my wish since that is not what the majority want. I have spent my rant. And will be surprised if the post doesn’t disappear. But at least I got my frustration out. And not off to Tyria a bit more now that I can see strait. Those undead wont kill themselves in orr.