Guild Wars 2

What about the new borderlands?
What happens to them?

Warlord.9074:

Just make them immune to condi damage. Gives a roll to non condi users on the team and solves the problem.

I was gonna suggest this solution too.

ZonaMaster.6395:

Well You know in the eyes of some group just being a thief gonna get you kicked
that’s really tell a lot about normal state of thief

Don’t pug raids, not on day 2. There are organized guild groups on ts that didn’t get the Vale Guardian kill, with a pug it’s just gonna be a bad experience all around.

And this is said by someone that has no special prejudice against pugs, I used to enjoy pugging dungeons when you could still find people on lfg.

That said, I’m not going to tell you to try other professions (I mean you could, but ultimatelt just do what you enjoy).
I’ll just point out that even if thief at the moment maybe isn’t in a great spot, this doesn’t mean that the game has become unplayable: what matters it that you enjoy thief gameplay, as long as that’s true you shouldn’t see the profession as “ruined”.

I saw a video that showed a successful kill, and in the video the rocks were thrown in what seemed like regular intervals.

In my game, I got two boulders thrown at me in the span of a few seconds: impossible to survive…
I really don’t want to sound disrespectful towards whoever worked on this encounter, but it’s such a mess that I’m having a hard time distinguishing bugs and intended mechanics of the battle :-s

I get it, this was supposed to be harder than Zhaitan, and I appreciate there being a greater depth and complexity (and difficulty) to it, but I get the feeling that this much complexity means so much more can go wrong and malfunction.

Example:
Big Canach that stays invulnerable: this wouldn't happen if there weren't moments in the fight where Good Canach and the Commander talk with each other. Again, I get it, this adds depth and complexity and on paper it's very cool: I'm just pointing out that it also adds more things that can break.

I can confirm too that the VB map I was in had the same situation: extremely low participation to the night events

Ayrilana.1396:

The first two bullet items you listed are bugs. You interact with the currents to launch up where you then pull out the glider.

This is strange, sometimes jumping worked… Thank you, I will try to interact with the currents, when I muster the will to retry yet again that story step.

Still, having an “instant failure” condition (falling during the forced flight sections) in the personal story is not something I’m a fan of…
It’s in sharp contrast with how chill all the other story missions are.

Are there any plans concerning the last story mission of Heart of Thorns?

At the moment, that story step is still plagued by bugs.
Also, the mechanics of the last fight are punishing to the point of being frustrating.

I was wandering if the dev team had plans in either direction, and/or if they are aware of the issues many players had/are having…

Hi.

Fixed a bug that caused the Daredevil’s Scarf to unlock the wrong rune recipe.

On today’s release notes it was stated that this issue had been fixed, but my Daredevil still knows the recipe of the Dragonhunter rune, instead of the Superior rune of the Daredevil.

I’ve been unable to login in the past hour too…
(I’m on EU)

wolfram.8291:

Please please please ANET. Stand your ground. Weren’t Masteries and Unlocking Elite Spec supposed to take longer than getting to level 80 in the base game? Why are you folding to the elite spec complaints and not doing anything about the mastery farming?

I don’t understand… How does 250 versus 400 change your gaming experience?

The number of hero points is fine either way, at least for me.

I’m still concerned about the champs and the need to find people, but I guess we will see how it goes.
I trust that if in the future Champions turn out to be too much, adjustments can be made.

One possible idea is adding a section on lfg dedicated to hero challenges: the open world category is too cluttered in my opinion.

Another idea is a mob that spawns as an Elite if there’s only 1 or 2 people present, but it feels like it would be more complex to realize.

We’ve seen feedback that people love our new Adventure minigames in which you can compete for rewards, experience, and leaderboard standing with your friends. People like them so much, they want to play them more! We’re going to take another pass on adventure availability so you can play them more easily. Most of them are only closed when events that could happen on top of them in an event chain would break the adventure—and we can’t do anything easily about those. But we’ve identified a few adventures that could be more accessible and aren’t as susceptible to influence from nearby events. The Bugs in the Branches, Shooting Gallery, Flying Circus, and Beetle Feast adventures will now all be made open for play more often. While major mapwide events are going on (survive through the night, the battle for Tarir, and the Trexus boss battle), adventures will remain unavailable as the map is under assault and needs your help!

I didn’t expect it, this is definitely good news!

The first time I heard about adventures, during a Points Of Interest, I was skeptical, but the adventures turned out to be a welcomed change of pace.

I may have identified a reason on my side of things, namely the Internet provider is “less than amazing”.

I’m updating the thread so that no devs spend time on this when I’m still unsure on the cause. If I end up ruling out a problem on my side, I will come back to this thread and ask for help.

Hello. I hope this is the right forum.

About an hour ago, I started up the game for the first time today (and considering the client updated, for the first time after the latest update).

After about 2 minutes of gameplay, I got disconnected.
After restarting the client, this happened again, and again.

I waited for around an hour. Now I get disconnected after 10 seconds.

I definitely haven’t changed anything on my computer… I’ve had DCs and crashes in the past (as everyone), with greater frequency since the launch of the expansion, but it is the first time something like this happens.

Edit: Now I can’t even log in…
:(

Hyper Cutter.9376:

bigbobpataki.4796:

A few months ago: We want harder open world content ArenaNet!

Decently challenging hero point challenges that require you to group in a MMO are implemented.

Forums this week: We want easier open world content!

It’s almost as if people didn’t like having their ability to unlock their elite specs and complete the map dependent on the whims of other people! Amazing, that.

Hyper Cutter makes a good point. It’s day 3 of the expac and already I can’t get people to do hero challenges together.
Writing in map chat is ignored, and no one joins on the lfg.

I like the expansion so far, and obviously a ton of work went into it. Verdant Brink is stunning, and the dialogues add a lot to the experience. But I’m more and more concerned about depending on others to unlock the basic stuff.
I don’t know how things are in the na servers, in eu a lot of the times when I write something in /say chat people don’t answer… Sometimes I think they don’t speak English, sometimes I think they just don’t care.

As the title says, they have all disappeared.

That’s news to me.

As far as I know, the only armour skin is a shoulder piece that no one knows how to craft yet (which is a strange decision for a temporary festival).
There are some other skins that drop from TOT bags, but I personally don’t like them. You can check them out here.

It’s meant to be a setback (you loose the stats temporarily if you keep failing), but not a punishment (no costs in repairing armour)

Two weeks.

Look, Halloween is probably my favourite seasonal festival.

But please don’t take time away from your studies: Halloween will (probably) be here next year.
You are not missing out as much as you may think: as I said before, I enjoy this festival, but looking at things objectively it’s only a couple hours worth of content if you don’t do the Labyrinth over and over again.

Thanks for answering. I’m specifically referring to the Specialization Collections though.

So far, I have found out that unlocking the collection element linked to obtaining Silver in a an Adventure requires the opening of the silver chest.
Even if you have the Silver related achievement, the collection element does not unlock.

This leads me to hypothesize that, if you open the chest and the related collection is still locked, you may need to repeat the Adventure and obtain another Silver chest after the collection is unlocked.

Can anyone back this up?

Hi.

What happens if I gain an item that is part of a Specialization collections that I haven’t unlocked yet?

Luvok.5697:

Misguided.5139:

I didn’t get a mask when I opened the chest, but I also didn’t get the achievement.

The achievement was bugged but supposedly fixed now.

I was going to open a thread to ask about that, so thank you

While I don’t know about the vendors, I distinctly recall there being some crafting recipes that require those ingredients

Oh My God.8423:

Actually I would like to see more layers added to Central Tyria so we can make the most of Glider. Airships or Floating cities, etc.

That of course would be amazing, but I’m afraid it’s unlikely to happen…

Jarvice.4590:

Edit: I kept the skill points I farmed in my inventory in case I wanted to use them on another character.
I basically feel like I got kicked in the balls because all those skill points are now some crafting material that I don’t need T_T

Even if you used those scrolls to get Skill Points, those Skill Points would have still been converted into Spirit Shards.

So, you were NOT kicked in the nether regions.

I like the idea of a debuff preventing gliding around JPs

It’d be awesome to be able to glide in the rest of tyria too…! I’m surprised this thread has so few answers…

I’m more concerned about dungeons becoming irrelevant and/or unrewarding.

A large number of players don’t have time to tackle fractals or raids…
I’m totally on board on rewarding the so called hardcore players more, but not at the expense of the larger playerbase.

With the turmoil that will hit the market, a large number of players will see their purchasing power drastically reduced.

That’s part of the reason why I started with “if I’m not mistaken”.

I definitely recall reading/hearing this, I can’t remember where…
If no one else can confirm it, just disregard it.

Overworld.9613:

Is there a meaningful choice between choosing to using the context prompt finisher or continuing to attack the downed player until they die?

If I’m not mistaken, if you stomp (=use a finisher) in PvP, when the player respawns he will be in-combat.
If you kill a player with normal damage, he will respawn out-of-combat.

In WvW, stomping can grant some points, as others have already explained.

vpy.6183

I am new to GW2.
I am assuming that Black Lion Trading company is comparable to AH of WoW.

Welcome.

vpy.6183

Q1) My black lion trader disappeared (Norn area ..near the lake…where the kids throw snow at you)…Is he on a spawn timer ?

Black Lion Trader NPCs are of two kinds: there are the permanent ones, and the ones a player can temporarily summon through a certain consumable.

vpy.6183:

Q2) Is there any way for me to get my purchased AH gear than searching for this black lion dude ?

The things you purchase at the Gem Store are delivered via in-game mail.

The things you purchase at the Trading Post can only be given to you by a Black Lion Trader NPC.

vpy.6183:

Q3) I could see numbers in gear in Trading section. Some of the gear have very high numbers like this pistol which can be used at level 1 with values like 1306 etc. But its stat is comparable to same level blue item…Whats up with that ?

Are you sure 1306 isn’t the amount of pistols available for purchase? That is definitely not a stat.

vpy.6183:

Q4) Apart from Sigils I am assuming there is no way to improve your dmg or character..am i right ?..I have about 4000gems which i can convert to gold if needed. Which should i buy first ?…Never been a fan of skin purchasing and cosmetic goodies though

You shouldn’t really worry too much about stats before level 80.
Anyway, your stats are boosted by Armour and Weapons.
Each armor and weapon has a prefix (Berserker, Soldier, etc) that indicates which stats are boosted.
Runes can boost one or two stats, and add some effects (like a certain boon lasts more, for instance).

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Yeah, you can do it, I bought one for a mate the other day. Once you pay for the game (online at buy.guildwars2.com I think it is, pls check) you are given a serial code, which you can give to your friend.

This was super helpful, thank you!
This information should be pinned… It’s weird there’s no official indication on the possibility to purchase the expac as a gift…

Unranked

/15 char

I’d say it’s reversed for me… When nobody speaks, usually the match the follows is pretty one-sided and results in a loss

If you have been playing since the time of soloq, your mmr is probably way better than mine. Maybe at the level you are at, people know what to do, regardless of using team chat…

I think you don’t even experience the whole region of your character’s race…

Do teams actually end up winning while ignoring team chat?

I noticed that when I’m in a team that ignores the chat, people also tend not to call targets, run around aimlessly, and ultimately we loose.
On the other end, when there’s proper communication in team chat, I notice that people also call targets, rotate, and we normally win.

As a consequence of that, I always assumed that not communicating was something a bad/inexperienced player did. So I was surprised to find out that some people keep team chat turned off by choice and not by mistake…

In my opinion, if a person cannot handle the possibility of criticism (and thus keep team chat turned off by default), they shouldn’t really play PvP at all…

Yeah, I was thinking about Frostgorge Sound and Fireheart Rise.

Let’s also not forget that Dry Top, the Silverwastes and Southsun Cove are all level 80 maps.

Thank you all for answering. It does seem like it’s ok to try out a free account.

I don’t plan on spending hundreds of hours on it, so I’m not really worried about getting a precursor

It really depends on what you are looking for… As far as the aesthetic aspect, I think all the maps have something cool to offer.
If you are mostly interested in killing monsters, I guess a good place would be the other high level maps.

Kratier.5082:

just bought the game and i was reading in the pvp forums and the class forums and basically discovering my preferred class in most mmos is completely crap… should i just refund the game? seems kind of pointless to play if the class i want to play is garbage

Hi, welcome.

It’s never too soon to learn that everything that gets said in a specific profession forum must be taken with a grain of salt.

Thief is an ok class, it’s not my favourite one so I have relatively few hours on it, but it’s definitely NOT crap.
All classes have something to offer, and some may be more popular in certain game modes, but none is absolutely terrible.

atlrising.5134:

Heres the thing, I created this post expecting my mesmer brothers to come out and go nope. What do I get instead a bunch of people who dont play the profession who want to complain because the class is not an easy kill no more.

I think we should wait and see how the changes affect gameplay.

I understand your disappointment, but I also think that the PU nerf was hardly a surprise.
It has been stated that balance patches will be frequent, so if this nerf turns out to be too much, I believe it will be addressed in the future.

Numbers are always gong to be in flux, and a 100% increase was a bit too much.

Hi everyone

Is it forbidden to make a free account if you already own the game?

I’m kind of curious to see how things work, but I don’t want to break any rule.
While I don’t see anything bad in making a free account to try things out, I can see how this could be frowned upon (you get 2 character slots for free basically).

Any thoughts, or even better, official responses?

If I’m not mistaken, what you are saying is that having the Berserk mode available, anyone would choose that instead of the traditional burst.

I would argue that it is probably a good thing that if you do pick the Berserker spec, then you are encouraged to use Berserk mode.

I think there will be builds that include Berserker, and builds that don’t. Those that do, should use the new mechanics, otherwise there’s not much of a point it picking up an elite spec.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Actually, some of them yeah. Some of those Karka descriptions are so innocuous it’s impossible to know which one it’s for. It’s just frustrating when someone asks for it over and over.

I think that those people that ask over and over again in a frustrating manner are likely to misuse mapchat regardless of what content gets released ;-)

Personally I enjoy seeing people asking and giving help, it definitely beats the alternatives (dead mapchat, people complaining/arguing, trolling, etc)

So people should also be prevented from asking help locating that one Karka they are missing?
I think people do this to help, not to spoil someone’s fun ;-)

Just ignore the chat… :-)

Azure.8670:

I can’t wait to kill the tengu. They are the one story sec I feel anet really needs to do something with. They live right next door and did nothing for us during the invasion or anything. They are the enemy and need to be slaughtered asap

I’d love to invade the Dominion of Winds and kill me some tengu.

Seriously though, I’d love to see some infiltration missions, where you as a Commander of the Pact drop inside the Dominion from an airship and do some sort of covert operations there (gather intel, establish alliaces with Tengus unhappy with their isolationism, ect).
Maybe while inside you uncover some worrisome threat. Or maybe you find out that Tengus are being invaded by Mordrem and they need help.

I can even imagine a future Tengu Mastery based on gainig intel/trust/political power in the Dominion of Winds.

The new LA is gorgeous, I like it a lot.

I think the Karka hunt was also a great idea, because it encouraged exploring and rediscovering the city.

The new JP is another nice touch, it adds another layer to the city, which makes it feel more real. It reminds me of the Silverwastes JP, which I think is another superb example of jumping puzzle that makes the whole map more interesting.

The Bed and Breakfast is pretty cool too, I wonder if it replaced the Order of Whispers area. I will have to explore some more.

Loved the easter eggs too. I chuckled when the “I’m rich, you know” dialogue option popped up. I’m not gonna spoil the twin thing, I’m just gonna say that at first I thought the Wild Eye NPC was crazy, until…

Never had trouble reaching 25 stacks.

After the first few minutes of the first group fight you should sit at 25 stacks without even realizing it.
Sooner or later you are gonna die in WvW, so as a general principle I wouldn’t go too much out of my way to prestack bloodlust each time…

Your mileage may vary depending on the profession you play and the kind of gameplay you enjoy (zerg, roaming…)

Maybe I’m the minority, but personally I think the name fits well with the theme, which is “adapting to the jungle”.

I loved yesterday’s Ready Up by the way, it was very informative.

I think my charr Warrior just said “Lyssa confound you!”

I can’t be 100% certain since there might have been a human nearby… I thought it had been fixed, anyone else noticing anything…?

Don’t loose faith guys, they are releasing fixes every day.

They are clearly aware of the issues and working on solving them