Guild Wars 2

Agree with the OP, I was thoroughly dissapointed to do the 500 costume brawler champions and not get a title from it, something like “Master Brawler” would have been nice.

Guys I have a dentist appointment tonight could you not move the whole patch and scheduled event change you’ve been planning for weeks to suit my needs please.

7g, but I’ve spent around 170g since release on full tier 3 Asura light armour and full exotic set and magic find set.

kiranslee.4829:

Tell me, why they didnt make event like shadow of tha mad king scavenger for those models, a bit longer or harder ? Then we would have effort = gain. Now we have simple P2P.
Im sure really soon we will see where gw2 will lead, and we seen it not so long ago with some other mmo.

Because if everyone could get them that easily then no one would care about them at all because everyone else has them, rare=want, give them to every player=bank trash. Maybe the skins will be available as a rare drop from the finale event, who knows? It’s only been a day.

Surely it’s better for the actual players then? If the mobs change pathing it means the bots can’t stand there and auto attack.

Battousai.7586:

Mattress.3629:

kiranslee.4829:

Well actually u do. And not all of us see having skins is only for B2P or 24/7 farmers.

Well actually no you don’t, as I said in my post above, you do not need to purchase or use any gems whatsoever to partake in all the activitys, I was able to afford the witch’s costume and the Mad King costume and some keys because I bought my gems 2 weeks ago when the event was said to involve gems, knowing that they would spike I bought them then, you don’t need to B2P or farm 24/7, don’t be mad cause you can’t make gold.

By that logic you dont “Need” to do anything in this game, but considering that all the nice stuff is hang infront of you with sparkly dollar signs says otherwise. This is a money grab holiday, there is no denying that.

I’m not denying that, personally I think it was greedy of Anet to make every cool looking skin RNG or hundreds of gold and gems, what I’m arguing about is people saying you can’t participate due to lack of gold or time, buying expensive skins from the gem store or TP is not the same as participation, again there is nothing stopping you from taking part in every Halloween activity.

Calavera.1086:

Except it isn’t

What isn’t?

Battousai.7586:

Mattress.3629:

Move forward? It’s exactly the same as it was before.

Wrong. please stop spreading false information.

Whose spreading false information? Move forward to where the mobs spawn and hit them there with the bots, what’s the difference between hitting them at the camp or where they spawn?

kiranslee.4829:

Well actually u do. And not all of us see having skins is only for B2P or 24/7 farmers.

Well actually no you don’t, as I said in my post above, you do not need to purchase or use any gems whatsoever to partake in all the activitys, I was able to afford the witch’s costume and the Mad King costume and some keys because I bought my gems 2 weeks ago when the event was said to involve gems, knowing that they would spike I bought them then, you don’t need to B2P or farm 24/7, don’t be mad cause you can’t make gold.

Move forward? It’s exactly the same as it was before.

You don’t NEED the Halloween skins and costumes from the gem store to participate in the slightest, the only thing you need costumes for is the brawl and you can get free ones from climbing in the mystic forge, also the weapon skins are vanity, which again are not required to participate in anything, rare skins are expensive because they are rare, I don’t see the problem here.

“How do they always have so many more people than us?!”

Whiteside Ridge 2012

So last night I decided to go and do some sPvP, when I came accross one of the most lowlife things I am yet to see in this game, I got into the game, went to the middle point and started attacking, everyone was standing still, I honestly thought I had lagged out, I killed one guy and everyone started screaming at me in chat “NO KILLING, STOP” “WERE BOOSTING GLORY” etc.

I was honestly shocked and really hope this hasn’t or won’t become a trend in these lobbys, what a disgrace like it’s not easy enough already to earn glory, and why boost? all boosting does is match you against higher players who you won’t have the skill to beat because you boosted there anyway?!?!

I run a semi glass cannon Staff build, if your going for Staff for me Blasting Staff is a must have I’m 30/10/0/0/30, using quick glyphs in lightning, might stacking fire, arcane blast and arcane missile as utility and it works wonders, I’m not doing bad for health on 14k, however Evasive Arcana I find works alot better with the staff as your able to combo blast whenever you like rather than rushing over to a field. Using Pyromancer Puissance, getting to 6 stacks of might then dropping two on fire dodging into it then hitting arcane blast cna get you upto 16 stacks of might, you can do the same into healing rain for a double aoe regen heal.

Nah man it’s great as it is, like when the enemy server has a 200k lead 4 days in, has all 3 orbs, outnumbers you on every map, and are also super soldiers to boot, this is what we need, we need extra Karma and ex……lol sorry couldn’t keep that going.

Thundar.3910:

Outmanned should, work the ways Orbs do, and Orbs the way Outmanned does. Outmanned should also, let freshly capped towers of the team who has the buff instantly upgrade gates and walls, with full supply for upgrading siege defense. Towers, not castles or garrisons.

I agree with the first part but you just cannot have the second part of your post, you’d just have skirmish teams during the night capping towers and keeps with so few people that swords don’t show up, then they cap it and it instantly gets upgraded to look like King’s Landing? Then all you’d see is “hey we got Ascension, it’s fully upgraded now EVERYONE COME” then the rest of their guild could jump in, it would be a mess.

God no, this is awful, do you know how many trolls would grab the orb and just blow it up? This wouldn’t solve a thing.

I’ll be on tonight for the reset and inital zerg, but after that I’m not going back into WvW until this is fixed.

Here’s what you need to do, press H, click the lower left tab with the crossed swords click go to heart of the mists, then walk forward and a little bit left and go through the portal to Lions Arch, now heres the complicated bit, waypoint to any zone on the map and go and wander there, if you want to do PvE stay out of WvW.

Thing is we haven’t been fighting eachother, I’ve been in WvW a good majority of the days since reset and I haven’t seen a Vabbi player since EB on Sunday night, given the score it looks like Vabbi has given up, were always fighting in our own Borderland and eternal, theres just not enough of us to put up a decent fight. By Saturday morning Drakkar had capped almost everything and were so far ahead in the points that we targeted Vabbi just because there were so many more Drakkar, trying to take their towers or keeps ended up with 30 defenders on the walls or focusing one of their keeps or towers left a zerg running around capping everything, we simply don’t have the numbers to fight back.

Drakkar Lake DE v Whiteside Ridge v Vabbi

So this is the 2nd week in a row were facing DE servers, by Sunday it was aim for 2nd place yet again, because we simply cannot compete against the numbers on the other server, it’s not been a question of tactics or motivation they have pure and utter numbers, every single night of the week has been nightcapping from Drakkar’s with barely any of our server getting on till 4 or so, I haven’t seen Vabbi since Sunday, even on the weekend we had 2 towers in EB and Drakkar and Vabbi weren’t attacking eachother and we were being pushed on both sides, currently losing our Garrison in our own Borderlands, they have enough people to send a 30 man zerg to Garrison and build 4 trebs on Cliffside and also send a zerg upto the orb, we barely have 5 people defending Garrison and it’s beyond a joke. Even at peak time we have just enough people to fill 2 areas, the rest are overrun with Drakkar and theres absolutely nothing we can do about it.

Harpazo.5217:

Monsoon.2589:

Harpazo.5217:

It’s not game breaking. I haven’t experienced any of these issues to the degree you’re talking about…

As far as the culling goes, it’s not nearly as big of a problem as people make it seem. There aren’t zergs of people ramboing across the map and killing others before they’re rendered.

If you don’t like it, don’t play it.

Are you sure you are playing the same game? Saying that there aren t zergs of people exploiting the rendering issue really makes me question if you are actually playing wvw in groups or just playing alone.

With all due respect haven t you read all the threads, seen the youtube videos clearly demonstrating this issue?

EDIT: and just so you know, there ARE groups, a lot of them, that are purposefully using the culling issue with mesmer portals in order to dominate. And the “If you don’t like it, don’t play it” well there is not much but /facepalm that can be said about this retort

Perhaps you’re only reading what you want to read, instead of what I’m saying. I grant you that the issues are PRESENT in the game, but I do not grant you that the issues BREAK the game. Culling only lasts a few seconds and a few seconds, even if being flanked, does not determine a zerg fight. I’ve been a part of mass fights that lasted twenty or thirty minutes where the line of the fight went back and forth on the open ground between keeps. One person can be burst down in a few seconds, but not an entire army.

Even if people are purposefully running around to exploit the culling, it isn’t game breaking. If your team properly communicates where zergs have been and where they are headed you can anticipate and act. I know this because I’ve gone into enemy territories by myself and avoided zerg rushes by paying attention to map chat and being aware of where fights break out. Just have some map awareness and you wont get crushed.

The other thing about culling is that it works both ways. It’s not as if culling means your enemies are invisible but you’re visible to them. That doesn’t makes sense. If two groups of enemies happen upon each other they will both have to take the same amount of time to be visible to one another. That’s not an advantage, that’s just a hitch in the system for both teams. It’s hardly exploitable and it’s certainly not game breaking.

I’ve been wrecked far more often by zergs I could see coming than by invisible groups, both by myself and while I was running with the pack.

Stop exaggerating the issue and look for ways that you can work around it.

Nope, this thing is pretty game breaking.

Got to love attacking a keep with an army of pet’s seeing as that’s the only thing that would load for me for over an hour.

You want to see a demoralising nightcap?

This is Drakkar Lake v Whiteside Ridge v Vabbi at the moment, it’s beyond a joke tbh, their just sitting in the towers nearest to the spawn, some even outside the spawns, last night it was a bit better 180 v 350 v 120 or so, and they pretty much nightcapped everything, this isn’t even high ranked were all in the bottom 8, yesterday we were having to defend on 2 fronts against Vabbi and Drakkar in EB, as it seemed like there was some invisible line in EB where they just wouldn’t attack each other.

http://imgur.com/7Cu8W

http://i.imgur.com/H8BWG.jpg

As of now were on 5 points.

This is Drakkar Lake v Whiteside Ridge v Vabbi at the moment, it’s beyond a joke tbh, their just sitting in the towers nearest to the spawn, some even outside the spawns, last night it was a bit better 180 v 350 v 120 or so, and they pretty much nightcapped everything, this isn’t even high ranked were all in the bottom 8, yesterday we were having to defend on 2 fronts against Vabbi and Drakkar in EB, as it seemed like there was some invisible line in EB where they just wouldn’t attack each other.

http://imgur.com/7Cu8W

http://i.imgur.com/H8BWG.jpg

As of now were on 5 points.

Tell this to Vabbi.

EVERYONE…COME!!

I’d rather see them taken out, having 100 people on your side with 10 of them in a god kitten jumping puzzle doing pve is ridiculous.

Sure thing, I enjoy it, it just seems at the moment the server that wins is the server that stays up to night cap everything, it’s becoming less and less fun to only be in the fight to not come last, it’s been 2 days and would take 3 days of holding everything for us to catch upto Drakkar there just aren’t enough people, getting pretty sick of fighting and fighting for ground during peak time to come back in the morning and see Drakkar have everything and all 3 orbs and a 40k lead, like they do now.

Whiteside Ridge isn’t reasonably high pop at all, our WvW is deserted most days until 2pm + in all honesty, we just got beat by Millers Sound and we beat Dzangur, Dzangur gave up in the last couple of hours, guess their back for vengeance, just think yourself lucky that you weren’t facing 2 German servers on the national holiday…those few days were rough for us. I do feel your pain though, were holding our home Borderlands pretty firm but everywhere else is either Vabbi or mostly Drakkar lake there just aren’t enough of us.

Whiteside Ridge are desperate for my WvW people at the moment, currently we have around 30 people in eternal and 20 in one other borderland, other 2 are empty because they are overrun.

It’s cool that they have to night cap to win against 2 servers with almost no one on them to win lol

Hey all, I was taking a look through the staff skins in the PvP locker and found 2 that I like, I was wondering if anyone has found them or knows where and how to get them?

http://www.guildhead.com/item/31161/pact-quarterstaff#.

http://www.guildhead.com/item/31504/gargoyle-scythe#.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

Just had the same in CoE explorable, did 2 seperate paths, first one worked fine got all the rewards when we were meant to, the 2/5 people got 15 tokens, another person got 45 and 2 others got 60, seriously, test something first Anet jesus.

It’s because the rest of the 80’s in your server are farming the 3 camps in Cursed Shore :P

joe.7684:

Mattress.3629:

shroud.2195:

Have you considered doing some of the other events in the same area (or other areas for the same level range)? Surely there are enough of them so you don’t have to repeat the same one over and over.

I would imagine the events have a short respawn time so other players can do them without waiting for specific events to spawn.

That’s not how it’s been working, when you do to many events one after the other no matter where you are or what your killing you will get diminishing returns, zones, mobs length of event don’t matter, which is why everyone is complaining about it, instead of ruining events for lower levels all they needed to do was change the 3 camps in Orr that everyone is farming, in fact I have GW2 on in the background and I’m waiting for one of those camps to start.

The operative phrase here is “when you do too many events one after the other”. That’s actually a key source of the problem that ANet is trying to fix. As I understand it, the issue from their standpoint is that some players are, a, doing too many events too fast, b, are cycling through event chains too rapidly, or c, are repeating certain lucrative events over and over again instead of moving on to different events. Thus, they’re trying to counteract that by instituting reward caps and diminishing returns. It’s been rather a blunt-force approach to the problem in its initial application and needs to be fine-tuned, but I believe I see what ANet is trying to do here and why.

I know, but instead of breaking event chains for everyone including people who are actually levelling they should have changed the events that people are farming, mainly the 3 camps in Cursed Shore as I said, what I don’t understand is how they couldn’t see this coming, they make the end game zone have only events, massive event chains and constant events, they make the endgame Orr sets cost 212k karma and the legendarys 500k karma, and they expect people to not use these strictly event zones for farming the ridiculous amount of Karma needed?

Take the diminishing returns away and fix the events that need fixing, this patch seems so unbelievably lazy, how can you have diminishing returns in a game where in most zones there are big event chains where the events are designed to be done back to back and then punish those doing it properly, that’s what’s wrong here.

I mean the Arah control event or any of the temple events if their not bugged out, you will only get karma/exp/silver for doing half of it before it kicks in, it’s a lazy pathetic joke.

tinfoil hat on Easy event grinding and mob grinding using events means to much loot and to much gold in the economy, which in turn means gem prices go down, which again means Anet don’t make any money off of gems as everyone is buying them with gold, that’s why the patch is there. tinfoil hat off

shroud.2195:

Have you considered doing some of the other events in the same area (or other areas for the same level range)? Surely there are enough of them so you don’t have to repeat the same one over and over.

I would imagine the events have a short respawn time so other players can do them without waiting for specific events to spawn.

That’s not how it’s been working, when you do to many events one after the other no matter where you are or what your killing you will get diminishing returns, zones, mobs length of event don’t matter, which is why everyone is complaining about it, instead of ruining events for lower levels all they needed to do was change the 3 camps in Orr that everyone is farming, in fact I have GW2 on in the background and I’m waiting for one of those camps to start.

What gets me is the game was sold on “taking the grind out of MMO’s” then they put in Karma weapons that cost 64k karma, armour sets that cost 212k karma, cultural sets that cost 120 gold and dungeon sets that take 70+ runs to get the badges for, then destroy any ability to farm anything in order to reach these obscene token/karma/gold prices, and expect people not to argue back?

This seems to be a trending pattern tbh, instead of Anet taking a few more days to actually look at what their changing or god forbid test something before putting it live on a server maybe think a bit before hand, they don’t tend to fix, they tend to break it so immediately the 0.1% of bots have to go find somewhere else to farm while wrecking the game for the other 99.9% of us.

If anything this is just making me not bother doing event’s I’d rather go farm harpys for blood or something if I hit the cap in a zone I’m doing 100% I’ll just walk straight by events as their not worth my time same as dungeons, but lets not get into that. If you try doing any of the long quest chains in Orr at the moment, especially the one leading upto controlling the gates of Arah you stop getting loot about halfway through, I got very little xp and karma for even killing the end boss in that chain. Punished for playing the game and following a story, thanks to botters and Anet’s once again over reaction.

Nope, I’ll only step foot in a dungeon if I’m working towards that gear, if I want teamwork and accomplishment I’ll go play sPvP tournaments or WvW, same for the scenery part, the story telling part I’d rather just go read a book or watch a movie or even play a better RPG if I want story.

What achievement of a dungeon…look at my sexy armour set, I have this because I grinded that same dungeon 70+ times for 100 or so hours, when the game was sold on “were getting rid of the grind in MMO’s” please.

Make the dungeon tokens the same so you can buy any piece of armour with any token.

Explorable modes drop 25 tokens and 20 silver regardless of speed completed, as none of them should be that easy right?

Reduce the token costs on armour.

Last of all make the tokens account bound.

Do these 4 things and everyone will still complaining.

Yeah man I totally agree with the OP, thanks for making us run 2 hour dungeons 70 times for a full set of gear, its a ton of fun!…….also thanks for not properly fixing it like proper dev’s just breaking it and making it buggy like you’ve done with the rest of any kind of farming in this game, thanks for nerfing Orr so I can only spend 10 minutes there before it becomes pointless, also thanks for the broken buggy event’s, thanks for making all the karma weapons massive event grinds, thanks for making all the cultural armour a massive gold grind that is now a struggle because no one can farm anything anymore thanks to your hasty fixing of botting, thanks for making all the light armour and staff’s look garbage, thanks for the no power and precision end game karma gear, thanks for the awful loooking Orr gear, oh oh one more and thanks for the 20 slot bags costing 12g each. So thanks for all of that….did I say thanks enough?

People are complaining because of time and subsequently difficulty vs the rewards you get, we can all admit CoF needed changing, but they didn’t change it they broke it, bugs, bugs everywhere in that place and the ritual chamber event is nigh on impossible, when you go into a dungeon like that it’s not fun it’s infuriating, and the changes they’ve made to rewards are disgusting, they’re actually punishing players for doing well at the game and completing dungeons quickly and efficiently. Also the fact that this game was sold on “not a grind” it’s one of the biggest dungeon grinds I’ve ever seen in an MMO, 70+ runs for a full set of any of the armour, you can do all the paths in variation, I guarantee you after 35 runs you’ll be bored kittenless wheres the supposed fun in that. When you have a grind that big in an MMO players will try their hardest to avoid it and find the easiest routes….it’s only logical.

Before people make these posts they need to actually read the threads to see what people are actually complaining about rather than seeing a thread title called “CoF nerfed” and assuming it must be cry babys complaining that dungeons are to hard.

Tear.9471:

I just want to say, that I love you Robert for what you did.
Everyone complains about difficulty, but when devs lower it, the new type of whine appears. That the game is for small kids now, that it’s too easy, that it used to be better. This happened in awful lot of older MMOs and people are still the same.
I thank you for this, because that speed run was ruining the dungeon runs for whole guilds. People were there all the time and we couldn’t form a group for anything else.
You saved my evenings with GW2.
Once again thanks. <3

Have you even read the thread?? Or do you have your head so far up Anet’s backside that you have no idea whats happening, people are complaining about the lack of rewards for clearing dungeons within a respectable amount of time and consequently being good at the game, their also complaining about how it takes 90+ runs to get a full gear set in an MMO that was sold on “were getting rid of the grind” and has more grind than most Japanese MMO’s, challenging dungeons are fine, no one is disputing that, but the fact they can take upto 2 hours a run for little to no reward and be that hard is ridiculous.

Their also complaining about the patch that “fixed” these speedruns have done nothing but make the route nigh on impossible to do, including that it’s added a ton of bugs to that route as well.

Also @Robert where in the blue hell did you get 15k-25k health?!?! I’m in full exotics as an Ele and I’m barely scraping 13k in dungeons, let alone being put down to 75 for CoF, do your research dude.

0/10 I have nothing to gain by doing the dungeons except a massive repair bill and 3 hours of my life lost.

It’s so stupid it includes WvW, that’s what we need more people getting vistas and skillpoints and taking up space with people queing to get in.

I’ll be playing Borderlands this Friday, I’ll give it a week, I don’t even see the point of doing dungeons anymore, I’ll come on for WvW nights, that’s it, I can’t even farm in Orr anymore it’s becoming a joke. And yeah with Halo 4 coming out and Black Op’s 2 also Dishonoured, AC3, Fifa 13 I have plenty of other games to go and play.

The letter you get at 40 should just say

“Hey there noticed you hit level 40, want to come to CM, get yourkitten kicked, get frustrated, quit the dungeon so your group has to reset it, by the way you getkitten all reward for it and a massive repair bill, come come enjoy our content, oh hahaha you can’t because all your ever looking at is the map so you can waypoint and run back, have fun! See you in game kittenface!”

Borderlands 2 on Friday, I’ll go play that for a week and wait for changes, already have my exotics, I can’t farm Orr anymore so I can’t afford the racial tier 3 Asura light armour cosmetic gear because apart from dungeon gear the rest of the light armour looks god awful, I don’t have 2-3 hours to throw into a dungeon that will actually cost me gold to do! And tbh I would rather smash my face onto the desk than do the explorable dungeons, your screwed when one person leaves and you need to reset to get another one in, it’s been 3 week c’mon at least fix that for christ sake.

Dungeons aren’t meant to be a grind? Then why in the hell did you make the token costs so high?!?!!?!! It takes minimum 35 runs of an explorable for a full armour set, that is utterly ridiculous, make up your godkittenmind Anet, you make it so we can’t farm/grind these dungeons yet the gear costs so many tokens we have to grind them!!!!