Guild Wars 2

Raptor was fun and handled well
Map was nice, though I wouldn’t mind a few more events going on

Would like to see unidentified gear split by rarity or, at least, cost to identify greatly reduced.

Afraid bounties will be too hard once the initial wave of players in a map settles down.

I loved my dervish in GW1!

But ANet would never miss the chance to wayyy over hype any new professions or races added into GW2. They know their hype gets sales.

The over hype leaves most players feeling underwhelmed by the actual content though, even if it is still good content.

I believe you need to complete all of the hearts on the map to unlock those chests. The hearts reset daily.

Guild Wars 2: Darude Sandstorm

Something that would really, realllly interest me is if something was done to make dungeons soloable! This could be through scaling dungeons down for smaller/solo groups, or a hero/henchman system like GW1 had!

In GW1, 95% of what I did was solo/with henchman/hero only teams. In GW2 I like joining groups in WvW or in open world PvE(meta events, etc) But I honestly prefer dungeons solo, at my own pace, when I want without having to spend long getting a group together! I would realllly love it if I could do more dungeons without groups!

I’m not sure why they never made some sort of option in GW2. I’m sure there are quite a few people who would love it if we had heroes/henchman again or if the dungeons at least scaled down for a solo player/smaller group.

Edit: Oh and if they actually were gonna add new dungeons along with the scaling or heroes… that’d be great

Personally, I thought the worst part of the story 4 fight was that we needed a bigger area but 5? This one was fine! We weren’t limited to a tiny space! Yes, the actual fighting area was somewhat small, and putting gliding attack skills in here would have been a great place to add some. (obviously we’d need more threats added for when we were gliding then, or it’d be too easy :P) However, as it is, you can use gliding to escape death fairly easily. I only fought through once, but from what I saw the bosses do not seem regen health when you are away from them so gliding away to help yourself live doesn’t reset your fight or anything. So people having trouble can try gliding more often/longer. Heal on CD? Glide for a little and then land to use it

I’m a solo player and by no means am I a great player, maybe even not that ‘good’ overall… but I feel like people not using dodges and gliding to their advantage are the ones struggling, and these are simple things to use. You might not WANT to glide around a ton, but if you can’t handle the fight otherwise then you really should give more gliding a try.
and if you realllly try your best and still can’t do it, get a group together for it! Right now is the best time for getting this one done with a group! Later on it might be harder with people moving on to other things.

When HoT was announced, I was excited and almost pre purchased as soon as it was available. I decided to wait a little longer though. Over time I thought about it and I started to realize time gating/locking stuff behind grind was sort of the direction things were going. I decided that I could easily enough wait and see how things went before purchasing. But, based on what I have heard so far, I’m thinking I can easily enough wait for a significant price drop before I am interested in paying for HoT. Not worth $50 to me personally.

You have to purchase the pack twice, if you want all 4.
I miss the days when Chainsaw actually wielded his chainsaws instead of keeping them sheathed

When the game first launched, I was finding probably 1-3 keys per week just from killing things. Ever since around the first Halloween (when they really started adding more things to black lion chests) I stopped seeing key drops completely. I literally don’t think I had a single key drop since before the first Halloween. So making them drop at least a little bit more again sounds awesome, even if I don’t get 1-3 per week :P

Limiting personal story keys seems fine, to reduce farming, but one per week just seems overboard. I don’t key farm though, so it shouldn’t mess with me too much (if at all).

Forget Spongebob, it’s Squidward! He likely started working with Plankton to eliminate Spongebob. Plankton is likely planning on getting the krabby patty secret formula during the process.
Squidward is willing to destroy the world to get rid of Spongebob. Plankton is willing to destroy the world to rule it.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the game and am on a good bit, but they sure do know how to hype up things that turn out to not be quite as awesome as they make it sound. I really don’t think they would want to miss out on a chance to over hype something like a new race!

If you don’t like your character, for whatever reason, why spend a lot of time/gold on items for it? Why not just create a new character BEFORE you make celestial gear?
Surely you realized before level 80, with full celestial and some ascended gear, that weapons on an Asura were smaller than weapons on a Norn.

Personally, I have no desire to change race. I have at least 1 of each race, and enjoy them all, but I made sure my main was Norn because I like Norn the best.

Scarlet returns! We just killed a really lifelike hologram. New evidence points to an attack on Rata Sum, most likely to happen on April 1st!

I agree with this. I’m actually reading this while minimizing the game during that cut scene right now! haha

I agree, if you get into an overflow that does NOT work well and fails every time the major events come up it is not as fun. Being stuck in failing overflows for several hours at a time just to attempt getting into my non fail main absolutely kills living story for me, especially when guests are able to get into my main easier than I am.
I skipped the entire 2 weeks before Escape From LA started, I only logged in once or twice for the one before that even. Why? Because I was just tired of being stuck in failing overflows for hours and hours.

I was so happy with the way Escape From LA worked. Not only did I feel like most overflows had a good chance at doing well but every hour was a new chance to get into the main or into a different overflow without being pushed to the back of the line waiting for my main because everyone else was getting kicked out and had to re enter as well.

Now, Battle For LA seems to be back to the old “Sit in overflow for hours and hours if you want to get on your main” idea… but at least it’s doable for zergs, which means most overflows have a chance whether they are really organized or just zerging.

The fact is, most overflows do not work so well when organization is required which means all events in overflows almost have to be zergable or they will fail most of the time. I don’t mind trying and failing some, especially when my server/overflow actually tries and puts up a good effort. I do mind trying and failing 90%+ of the time simply because I can’t be at my computer in the overflow 24/7 waiting to go to my main. (As has been the case with quite a few Living Story parts it feels like.)

I would love God armors! I would likely feel the need to buy one of each, assuming they looked like the GW1 Dervish Elites. Dervish was my favorite profession in GW1 and I loved the avatar skills, they looked so cool!

I haven’t really wanted to buy any new armor skins lately… I mainly use my Guardian and he has Tier 3 Norn armor so I don’t want to replace it unless there’s something I really love! I don’t generally care much about gem store armor for my alts, I don’t use them a ton. These armors, made right, would have me buying the set I liked best for my Guardian and then one of each other set to put on alts! Maybe two sets on my main, if I really liked the styles for him.

However, as far as not all races believing in Human Gods goes, I agree that it would be bad. I don’t know how to make up for that without more race specific armors being made, each race having sets to represent their belief systems! Which would then keep my Norn from wearing Human God armors… but if I thought the Norn armors were good enough, I wouldn’t mind!

I once had 1268 rescued in an overflow. It’s too bad that was before the change, but I am still glad the change came!

Subdue.5479:

Lpfan.3578:

Decrypter.1785:

How does the Overflow system work exactly ?

Based on my experiences, this is how it works. If you have your home server set to a popular one, like Black Gate (I do), then you don’t get to do popular events like Living Story on your home server unless you sit in overflow of that map for at least a few hours first.
Instead, you should pick an unpopular server for your home world so you can guest to whatever popular one you want… every single time you want to do a big event.

I almost feel like if I want to do Living Story IN Black Gate, I have to transfer my home server to somewhere OUT of Black Gate.

This doesn’t even make sense.

You’re right, it doesn’t make sense.
My point is, my home world is Black Gate and I never get to do Living Story in Black Gate because I always end up in overflow. Then there are people who guest to Black Gate from other worlds and get to do the Living Story in Black Gate. It makes me feel like I should set my home world to something besides Black Gate, so I can guest to Black Gate and actually play there.

Decrypter.1785:

How does the Overflow system work exactly ?

Based on my experiences, this is how it works. If you have your home server set to a popular one, like Black Gate (I do), then you don’t get to do popular events like Living Story on your home server unless you sit in overflow of that map for at least a few hours first.
Instead, you should pick an unpopular server for your home world so you can guest to whatever popular one you want… every single time you want to do a big event.

I almost feel like if I want to do Living Story IN Black Gate, I have to transfer my home server to somewhere OUT of Black Gate.

I just came back from a 3 week or so long break and my main is a male Norn. I right away noticed that my foot steps were faster than they used to be, I really noticed it when I was under the effects of swiftness! It felt funny at first, but I’ve gotten a bit more used to it now.

Electro.4173:

I wouldn’t be surprised.

A hallucinogenic poison is a perfect way to force rebattles of old enemies without causing any lore oddities.

That sounds pretty awesome! As long as it wouldn’t be too dark/wavy the whole time from hallucinogenic effects… that could get annoying.

It would be great to see some old enemies again, since temporary content stole them away from us! It would be great to see ones that we have missed from not playing (for whatever reasons) at the time they were around. This and/or fractals would be the two places it makes sense.

Astralporing.1957:

Lpfan.3578:

She’s a great detective, she’s a good necromancer, and she knows a lot about poison… does that really sound so crazy?

Well, the previous event when she showed up made me think she was rather poor necromancer, with no abilities whatsoever. This is the first time someone mentioned she’s competent at anything.

Fair enough… maybe I should have just said she’s a good detective and a necromancer, not necessarily good. :P It still seems fitting that she would know a bit about poison.
I said great detective and good necromancer because these would be the reasons for her being important/useful in the story, but you are right she does not really show off any great abilities yet!

OMG! A clearly important character in the living story is well trained/experienced in something that makes sense for their line of work (detective) AND their fighting profession (necromancer)! Clearly she is just like Scarlet who unites every enemy race she wants to and mastered all Asuran schools in record times…. and impressed even Hoelbrak’s finest smith. Really?

She’s a great detective, she’s a good necromancer, and she knows a lot about poison… does that really sound so crazy?

I think the Tequatl update is great!

What I think is NOT great is the fact that for the past two weeks I have been shut out of my home world (Blackgate) every single time I have tried to do Tequatl, except for ONCE. One overflow got him down by about 25% one time and the rest only did like 10% or less. It is stupid that I can’t do this large event on my home world more than once in TWO WEEKS.

I understand it will die down once the living world moves on and just in general over time, but this is still just bleh. It makes me play less when I can’t even take part in successful fights involving living story because I can’t get to my home world and have not gotten lucky enough to be in any good overflows. (I’ve been told they exist)

It wasn’t bad when I was stuck in overflows during scarlet stuff because most overflows could do good enough to get decent rewards, even beat it, but Tequatl requires more organization and it just does not get to the point of earning any reward at all in most overflows.

Edit: I finally got in on Blackgate a second time in these two weeks! Now I guess I’ll just have to stay on this character, in this map, for the next 24 hours or so before living world moves on! :P

Congratulations on your Eternity!
I would probably just keep Twilight and Sunrise then switch between the look I wanted, when I wanted! But Eternity is still cool, maybe I wouldn’t be able to resist the urge to just squish them together. XD

I certainly hope skin and animation is the only difference. If the Bone Pick has some special bonus to it, it will only be a punch in the face to those of us who got the Molten Alliance Pick.

I’m guessing they will remain exotic. This gives ANet more level 80 transmutation crystal sales, thus more cash paid or more gold sunk for players who want those skins.

I think it would be great if they became ascended, but since it didn’t happen with the ascended weapons release I doubt that it will happen at all.

TachyonicRage.4936:

Because Zhaitan didn’t die, he was defeated, there is a difference

Yeah, and instead of using a way point he’s just waiting for his minions to come revive him because the nearest uncontested WP is slightly farther away than the actual nearest, but contested, WP.

I don’t mind the materials so much, any that you have multiple stacks of are either so common that you shouldn’t feel the need to stockpile so much or worth so much that you shouldn’t mind them taking up some bank space.

I do agree about unlocked/purchased skins though! Some sort of storage for them (besides bank/bag slots) would be great. Even if it didn’t unlock them across the whole account, just having some extra room for them without constantly feeling the need to buy more slots or delete these items that might not ever be available again would be nice. I like free stuff from living story, but it’s not so free if you actually want to keep it all I guess.

Kojiden.8405:

So is this why I’ve never been able to get on my home server Blackgate and am forever stuck in overflow?

Same problem here, Kojiden. Maybe we need to group up so if one of us actually manages to play on our HOME SERVER we can pull the other one in! No Beastgate member left behind!

I agree, I liked the old animation better! Were there too many complaints about it being too bright or something? I liked it, but if that is the case, making it some ugly black stuff is not the solution I want at all.

If you go into the achievements tab, pick the Boss Week section, then click the Boss Week achievement, you can right click the wings icon to preview them on your character!

If you wanted the code for something other than previewing for yourself, then sorry but I don’t have it.

No lag for me, just a fail overflow.

On Blackgate, we got her summoned but only had like a minute on the clock. We did not defeat her in time, but it did count for the daily achievement.

Being ‘useful’ is not the point of a mini pet. They are just little cosmetic things that represent monsters/characters from the game that some people like to have follow them around, myself included!

Yep, I’m sure I’ve done all of the maps too and I am stuck at 12/13. It’s a pain trying to figure out which one I didn’t get credit for.

The way they have hyped it up with the vandalism, pocket watches, poem… I feel like this SHOULD mean something bigger than usual is coming.

Maybe they think we need a flood of mini Queen Jennahs to remind us of her because we won’t ever see her again in the Living Story.

All of my characters display titles, even the characters I barely play right now! The world shall be made aware of my achievements and the world shall say “Congrats, you’re only the millionth player I’ve seen with that one.” I still enjoy titles though, even if lots of other people have the ones I have.

Currently I like to display my Respected Achiever title because I just got to 5k+ achievement points last week! Before that, it was mostly GW1 titles but, I’m only up to Closer to the Stars… would love GWAMM but I will never get there. Sometimes I display ones from Living Story, like Crab Tosser, Emissary of the Mad King, Avenger of the Dispossessed.

Do I really work specifically towards getting a title? No, not really… but if something I want to complete has a title at the end of it, I’m likely to display it at least for a little while when I get it.

Completing the event is what ANet intends with any events.

People trying to keep the event going until the timer runs out and it fails are exploiting in order to gain more profit from champions that spawn. If anyone was to be banned it would be people who have been farming this event a TON. Not saying I think they will be banned, just that if ANet picked someone to ban it would certainly NOT be the people completing the event.

Chances are they are going to nerf this event, and others like it, to the point where the zerg is no longer interested in it anyways. Don’t worry, you are fine.

RNG is RNG. Two people having bad luck is not equal to a nerf. Last night someone got Dusk. I’m not sure how many tries, but they said they were just hoping for something worth like maybe 10g not even really trying for a precursor. So someone else tossed in about 10g or less worth of rare dyes and came out with around 30g worth. I bought 4 of the cheapeast level 80 rare greatswords and tossed them in, got an exotic and made a tiny profit.

I’m not saying that means the forge is good and to dump all you have in it or anything, but you gave examples of bad luck so I gave examples of good luck. I’m not saying there is no chance the forge was nerfed, just that I personally don’t think it was.

Edit: Or that I, personally, have not seen anyone in my server whining about it seeming worse lately. I have also tossed in a bunch of greens and haven’t really had any worse luck than what I expected from previous attempts.

It sucks that you didn’t get a precursor but really… RNG is RNG. If you aren’t willing to lose on your gamble, then don’t take the gamble to begin with. It’s not ANets fault that people like you continue to GAMBLE in the forge when you are clearly not willing to ‘lose’ (not get what you want the RNG to give you) without quitting the game.

I know getting a precursor by any method is a real pain in the backside. I completely agree with people who say there need to be better ways of obtaining precursors. But if your choice is to gamble however much gold worth of rares that is (250-300 gold?) instead of continuing to save up a higher amount of gold and BUY a precursor, you need to realize that mystic forge for precursors is a gamble and that you just might not get what you want when you gamble.

You should always, always, always test out the weapon type before you spend any large amount of time and/or gold to obtain a nice skin of that type! Personally, I love sword as a Guardian and plan on creating Bolt at some point.

Even before getting a cheap exotic version of a weapon, I test it out that type with lower quality to see how the skills work their range with basic 1 attacks and each skill, etc.

I have used each weapon beyond just unlocking all the skills for them, I will still use each weapon again before investing any large amount of time or gold into a skin. That is the best way to avoid problems like this.

I have had this happen a few times too. I had done enough to get credit for sure, I figured it must have been too many people around… I tried to wait once but the army of veterans that kept spawning started to be overwhelming when people went away. Either by that time the champion loot had gone away or there were still too many people around but I had to go away or die to the veterans.

Yep, no matter who you voted for this is at least a little bit of a bummer.
I voted a bunch for Gnashblade and a few times for Kiel (to get representation pins) and now, I could have made several more gold if I had not wasted my vote tokens on the losing candidate.

Now these people who didn’t even take part in the event, but just held on to those vote tokens so they could delete them all at one time after the event instead of deleting them every time one dropped… they get rewarded for simply hanging on to what they probably assumed was going to be a pile of trash by the end of the event.

In another post, I pointed out where a deadline was posted on a GW2 page about the event. The deadline was put where people could find it, it was not put where everyone saw it (clearly) but it hardly took any effort to find. When an event is going on and there is a link or two about it on the GW2 website, read them or at least scan them for deadlines/end times. Generally it will tell you the day and with this voting it even gave a specific time.

Your uncounted votes are not ANet’s fault. They are yours.

I feel ANet does need to advertise end times better, but they did make it fairly easy to find if you tried.

By the way, I voted for Evon so this is not some Kiel Supporter trying to be mean to Evon supporters.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/cutthroat-politics-campaign-guide/

Under “How Can I Support My Candidate?” this is the last line under “A few tips”

The Zephyrites will stop accepting Support Tokens on August 5 at 11AM PST in order to start counting them up. Be sure to turn in your Tokens before then!

I understand not everyone reads these things, but it is ALWAYS good to at least check through quick for end times. They did give a specific time, they didn’t do the greatest job of making it known to everyone, but you could easily find it if you clicked links on the main GW2 page that had to do with the event.

The World Event: “Defend Applenook from the pirate attack.” in the Cornucopian Fields section of the Gendarran Fields map on Blackgate server seems to be bugged so that it never ends!

Last night I went through there and saw the event. Villagers Alive: 2 Cutthroat waves defeated: 7/8

I saw a few pirates around, attacking buildings. I killed them, I killed every pirate in the event area, and the waves defeated remained at 7/8. I moved along, figuring I was missing something and didn’t want to deal with it right then.
However, on coming to the same area again today I still see the same number of villagers alive, same number of waves defeated and no pirates in or around the event area. It seems to be stuck!

Edit: A few minutes after posting this, 2 cutthroats showed up attacking a building and I killed them. Then 2 more were attacking another building and I killed them. The event is still stuck.

I am annoyed by this sometimes too! But invisible bag and stuff like that are simple fixes. Plus, surely there are other things you don’t want deposited or accidentally sold, so it’s nice to have an invisible bag anyways.

I feel like nothing is a problem in GW2, until it causes a major problem for Lion’s Arch.
Dragons are still threatening the rest of Tyria? Yeah well we took care of Zhaitan and the Karka so no worries, LA is safe! :P

We’re gonna have to hunt a dragon down and lead it back to LA. First, we need to make sure there’s a big barbecue in LA that day too so the dragon gets hungry and tries to eat everything there.