Guild Wars 2

jokke.6239:

Please continue with the flashy stuff Anet

This.

Please have some ‘super’ version of the mounts. I like cute, colourful and flashy stuff.

I’ll vote for a big, furry white wolf instead. I want to be Princess Mononoke

My very first MMO is Maple Story and that was quite a few years ago. Then, I remembered being asked in-game ‘boy or girl?’ I was liked, well, isn’t it obvious? I am playing a girl character right?

It was later that I learnt from my guildmates and friends that many guys play female characters in MMO

Makes me wonder, do some girls play the opposite gender too? Definitely not from my small group of friends who play games.

This morning I was roaming open-world, solo, looking to earn some HPs. When I was at this waypoint in Tangled Depths when suddenly a group of players appeared and then a prompt message appeared on my chat, " I was being kicked out of the party by this lame person".

I was liked, wth ?! I always play solo and I certainly did not join any group or squad. Did the game added a auto-group-join thingy in open world map?

Please bring back the Aetherblade armor (medium) <3

Obtena.7952:

20 veteran gank? What game are you playing?

I believe what OP meant is that the game story difficulty is liked being ganked by 20 veterans, so do not take those words literally.

Tbh, sometimes I felt the same too, dying over and over again, till I gave up, hoping maybe I will have better luck next time IF I try again.

I know many here are GW or MMO elitists who spent thousands of hours over the years playing games. So to you guys nothing in the game is difficult.

wmtyrance.3571:

Nedeus.8251:

Weird. I haven’t received any gift yet.

Me either, i got the game at launch too. Have the same character also.

I think this is how it works..

If this is your 5th birthday gift, check your age in the game, you’ll have to be at least 1825 (5 years) days with the game. I have not gotten mine too but I have 7 more days to go before I get my 5th anniversary gifts

Oh before I forget.. Happy 5th Anniversary GW2 !

Vayne.8563:

Mil.3562:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Thanks so much for the lovely gifts. =)

What gifts? Why I have nothing… yet?

Birthday gifts. Each time one of your characters is another year older, it gets a birthday gift from Anet. This is the five year anniversary of the launch of the game. Those of us who were there for the first day of headstart (due to preordering) started getting our five year birthday gifts.

When your character is a year old you’ll get your first year birthday gift. In fact each character on your account will get one.

Thank you for replying.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Thanks so much for the lovely gifts. =)

What gifts? Why I have nothing… yet?

DirtyDan.4759:

People get kicked in dungeons??? When I do dungeons with my fully ascended geared main I also gladly play with people who haven’t even reached lvl 80. As long their lvl is the minimum recommended ( ascalon explo lvl35) I say: gotta help a brother

Mea.5491:

I agree, I will never understand why they allowed this crap. This is why I only run open world content and solo story, I don’t want to deal with toxic elitists in instances. I play for fun, not for dps.

I totally agree with both of you.

I too only play open world PVE and the story. I play the game for enjoyment and hence playing it my way and definitely not letting those those selfish elitists decide for me how I should gear up and play it their ways.

I bet there will be tons of skins for the different mounts, so, can we have the super skins too? Just like the Super Cloud Glider, super minis, weapons and backpack, to complete the theme ? :P

I really love those colourful translucent look. Not to mention they all look cute

Thank you for bringing back the Super Cloud glider. I just bought it <3
Now, what about the Super Holo-Copter Glider?

This game has stopped being unique four years ago when they decided to have gear progression (ascended gears).

Anyway, common but successful > unique but failed.

If these ‘mount skins’ are just going to be rare drops from raids, fractuals or achievements, ONLY those hardcore players (ppl who spend hundreds of hours weekly playing this game) and gindfest lovers will be happy.

But if these skins are Gemstore exclusive, everyone will be happy, especially Arenanet. The choice is clear.

No spider please >.<
Scorpion is a good alternative.

Another grindfest expansion? Nice.

I love this outfit!

Thank you for the clear and comprehesive explanation It clears up a lot of things.

So for Tyria mastery points, I need to gain them by doing quests , doing map completion, etc in Tyria. As for Maguuma mastery, I need to do mastery events in Maguuma.

But I am a casual player and due to work and personal commitments, I soloéd most of the time. I understand from reading some of the posts in this forum, many of Maguuma mastery events need group play :/ So will I have problem filling up the gliding mastery bar?

I am only interested in getting the gliding skill and specialisations in Hot. Thanks.

After reading, I am still in doubt :/

Am i right to say that after I get HoT, my experience bar will be replaced by the mastery bar?

Meaning I earn mastery points instead of experience and when my mastery bar is full, I will get one mastery point to be added to the mastery skills?

Do i even make sense? >.<

Where i live, it still cost $49 just for HoT.

Palador.2170:

It looks like you might have a month or two before it’s worth worrying about. So, keep an eye out for it on sale somewhere, and try to get it for less than the normal price.

This.

IMO this is not a question of affordability, it is more of what’s worth of your money. And, HoT at it’s current state gets a mixed bag of postive and negative opinions from players.

I want to get the expansion just for the glider mastery and specialization skills but I ain’t gonna pay $50 for them.

I am a casual player. I can wait.

edit: typos

Psst… don’t listen to the fans here. It is easy to search for honest unbiased comments on the web about Nerf War 2, I mean Guild War 2.

This game is for hardcore gamers only. To fully enjoy the game, you’ll need full ascended gears and legendaries. If you are prepared to grind for at least 5-8 hours every day and for one to two years , this game is for you.

PVE
If you enjoy being killed by mobs, play GW2… or better still, buy HoT.
If you enjoy killing mobs, play something else.

PVP
Refer to above but replace mobs with certain class players

WvW
GOOD LUCK

Btw, I am downloading D3 as I post here, lots of positive feedbacks on that game after the developers listened and acted on gameplay improvements.

I stopped playing GW2 for about two years and came back to play for about a month now. Yep, nothing has changed (enjoyment wise) only more nerfs, especially visual nerfs on skills :/

Thank you for the reply but my bad that I forgot to mention that I am an elementalist.

edit: I think that the S Rune of Dwayna is better.

Sorry for the double topic post…

The sixth rune gives : Gain +500 healing power for 3 seconds after casting a glyph.

3 secs? Is that enough to cast a heal to benefit from it? I mean 3 seconds is really fast and on average most heals casting animations took about 1 to 1.5 second to end. You will have to immediately cast a heal after casting a glyph and any hestitaion, you will miss the +500 heal power.

Or is there a way to actually effectively benefit from this rune? Thanks.

About the fireball visual nerf (absent for about two years and still hearing Anet is nerfing this, nerfing that…), the solution is simple :

Just rename the skill to ’ fire ping pong ball ’.

Same as you, my bf and I started playing since beta. He left the game after a few months (overseas studies) while I continued for another month or two.

I stopped playing around the time when the ascended gears patch came out. The ascended gears thingy created a huge resentment amongst many beta players because of having to grind again for crafting materials and new gears. I think OP you will still remember.

Anyway, I came back just about a week ago and I felt that things have not changed much, unless you plan to buy the expansion. Healer role is still not viable in this game as healing support is still weak. I know bcos I am still trying to play as one. I only like healing role.

The old PVE maps are deserted. I went to check out the old maps and after running around for more than 30 mins, I came across one player. Yes, only one. Many of the old maps are like ghost towns now. The only populated areas are that city area, Divinity Reach or something and maybe factuals or dungeons.

I cannot comment on HoT as I am still contemplating to buy it or not. From what I read, most events need group efforts and that is what stopping me from instant buy lol. Most of the new stuff like new skills, gliding, and even buying certain stuff in the guild hall need the HoT expansion :/

And btw, gliding or flying only works on the expansion maps and my guild hall is just a hugh empty cave as most of my guildmates are either offline or busy grinding :/

I bought a couple of cosmetic stuff for myself and I have been playing WvW and nothing else for about a week. WvW is still quite populated but I don’t know when will that last me. Seems like the game is going the crafting and PvP way, which I don’t like.

My interest may last for a month or two. Unless things change. But I know that won’t happen. Then again like all posters above me, these are just my opnions

edit: took out some negative comments

When I first played and that was about three years ago, I did post a pic of my Ele here. But now I couldn’t find her :/ Anyway, here’s a updated pic of me, i mean my Ele, Eliza :)

Anierna.6918:

Josh Davis.6015:

(Please don’t hurt me.)

Come on, Grouch, it’s common knowledge that even if us players aren’t trying to be hurtful, even if we’re only having a pragmatic discussion of something, there is an incredibly high chance that some Moderator will interpret what we post in a way it wasn’t meant to be interpreted, leading to deleted posts & threads, frivolous bans, and the doling out of Infraction Points. Just use the Dungeon sub-forum as an example; it has gotten to the point where Moderators delete anything they personally disagree with, and hand out arbitrary bans on a daily basis.

In regard to us players as users of this forum, let’s make a deal; we won’t hurt you, if you don’t hurt us. Fewer bans and deleted posts, and you may restore our confidence in Anet, which is at an all-time low at the moment. There are a couple great new games coming out next year (Elder Scrolls Online, Wildstar, and the new EverQuest, to name a few), and if Anet wants us to stay with Guild Wars 2, you’ll have to use more carrot and less stick.

In regard to us players as Elementalists, let’s make another deal; stop nerfing us, and we might keep playing our Ele’s. Otherwise, our first step will be to play a different profession, and our second will be to play a different game.

Just so everyone knows where I’m coming from, I have never been banned. I have never personally been mistreated by Anet or it’s Moderators; however, I’ve seen many people who gave honest, well-written opinions about Anet’s performance have their posts/threads deleted and their forum privileges revoked. I’ve also seen the Elementalist class be nerfed time and again. In both cases, Anet just needs to back off a bit; soften the heavy-handed approach to the forums, and stop proactively nerfing this profession.

I totally agree with this.

More carrot, less stick.
More buff, less nerf.
More action, less talk.

I am out of this game for almost a year, occasionally checking in, looking for an excuse to love my elementalist. But every time I left with disappointment.

My bf asked me to join him in another MMO and at first I was very reluctant, too lazy to start from lv 1 again lol. Now I am glad that I did and I am really loving it.

I choose to spend my money on a game that I enjoy rather than waiting here, having false hope.

From the very beginning, I didn’t know that you need a Master Degree in finger reflexes and keyboard button tapping in order to play the Ele well. If I knew, I would have stayed far far away from this class.

I have stopped playing since May this year because of all the nerfs we are getting. Recently I came back to see if things got better.

Well, see you guys in another six months time.

When did we become “overpowered”?

We became overpowered, whether true or not, when the developers decided to swing the nerf bat on the Elementalist Class. The same can be said for the other classes. That simple.

Revolutionary? Yes but not in the right path.

Imbune.5497:

Mil.3562:

pmnt.4067:

If you enjoy content being obsolete because you outgear it, play ANY OTHER MMO out there. Seriously. It’s one of the few unique features GW2 still has. GW2 has a long way to max level like any other MMO (there’s just number progression after 30 – do you rally need 50 levels for 10 traits?), BiS gear takes ridicously long to get like in any other MMO (I’m looking at you, ascended trinkets) … so don’t take level scaling away.

Actually, I am expecting this ‘go play other MMO’ trolling to come in sooner LOL

I still love this game that is why I bother to post my opinions and comments. A few of my friends have totally given up and they don’t even bother to visit the forum anymore.

You bet I will play other MMO. It really hurts me to see a game that I love alot and have spent so much time and money over the months but only to realise that slowly, but surely, drifting away from what makes it fun in the first place.

I am still hoping things will change but knowing Anet, even if it comes it may be too little, too late.

You claimed to have stopped playing the game yet still come to the forums to spew senseless negativity….that sounds like a troll to me (talk about the pot calling the kettle black -__-). At the very least a troll is supposed to make people get upset (still utterly ridiculous but they take ‘pride in it)…but I bet people who read your previous posts along with this just think you’re stupid…fail troll is fail.

On topic-I haven’t noticed any real issue with dying in downscaled areas, just had to use skills other than auto attack a bit more; no real difference to me

Just becos I have stopped playing, I am not allowed to post in this forum? And posting my preference of play at low level maps, which is the opposite of yours makes me a troll? And you call me stupid LOL. Look who’s talking. Grow up pls.

You haven’t noticed any real issues so that means they don’t exist. Yeah right.

pmnt.4067:

If you enjoy content being obsolete because you outgear it, play ANY OTHER MMO out there. Seriously. It’s one of the few unique features GW2 still has. GW2 has a long way to max level like any other MMO (there’s just number progression after 30 – do you rally need 50 levels for 10 traits?), BiS gear takes ridicously long to get like in any other MMO (I’m looking at you, ascended trinkets) … so don’t take level scaling away.

Actually, I am expecting this ‘go play other MMO’ trolling to come in sooner LOL

I still love this game that is why I bother to post my opinions and comments. A few of my friends have totally given up and they don’t even bother to visit the forum anymore.

You bet I will play other MMO. It really hurts me to see a game that I love alot and have spent so much time and money over the months but only to realise that slowly, but surely, drifting away from what makes it fun in the first place.

I am still hoping things will change but knowing Anet, even if it comes it may be too little, too late.

badmagick.8176:

Mil.3562:

With every update, Anet is trying to make the players weaker either by nerfing our skills or buffing mobs.

Personally I feel that a lv80 player with full exotic gears still has to struggle fighting mobs that are 50 levels below her is just plain ridiculous. They call it challenging. Why would a lv80 player go to a lv 30 map to find challenge?

They call it dynamic levelling adjustments. I call it dynamic level nerfing. This is why I have stopped playing.

If I want challenge I would go to Orr and not Queensdale. Really.

Perhaps you enjoy going god mode in lower areas once you’ve leveled past them but did you consider others may not? To me, being invincible and one shotting everything with >9000 overkill doesn’t sound like alot of fun. I love the fact that I get downleveled to an appropriate level for each area. It makes the content non trivial. Also I would hate doing low areas in god mode cause that would make them feel ‘old’. This way they feel more ‘current’ even if I come back to them 10-20 levels later, if that makes any sense.

@OP My ele is only 41 at the moment but I’ve had no problem whatsoever with survivability. Even solod a champion yesterday, took 8 mins to kill. I do make a habit of trying to dodge/blind/block the hard hitting abilities but then again that’s how its meant to be played isn’t it? Not dodging in light armor and then complaining about losing a lot of health to a 3 mob pull doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Perhaps you enjoy going nerf mode, spending 8 mins dodging like mad trying to kill a champion that is way lower level than you and calling that fun, but did you consider others may not?

If you don’t like One Shot kills everything, you still have choices, go Orr or some level 70-80 maps. But those that enjoyed easy kills while questing or travelling in lower level maps, do we have a choice? Nope.

To me and others, like OP, taking a full 8 min to kill a low level champion doesn’t make alot of sense. But I guess, to each her own.

With every update, Anet is trying to make the players weaker either by nerfing our skills or buffing mobs.

Personally I feel that a lv80 player with full exotic gears still has to struggle fighting mobs that are 50 levels below her is just plain ridiculous. They call it challenging. Why would a lv80 player go to a lv 30 map to find challenge?

They call it dynamic levelling adjustments. I call it dynamic level nerfing. This is why I have stopped playing.

If I want challenge I would go to Orr and not Queensdale. Really.

I believed that the 50% healing reduction in EA is also affecting WvW.

It says that the EA cast spell has been split between PvP and PvE. Does ‘PvP’ includes both sPvP and WvW?

I just tested EA in WvW and I pretty sure that my heals have been halved. Can someone confirm this? %#@!#! Anet

LordByron.8369:

…….
I never see any thief in www XD

That’s becos they are in perm stealth.

joe.9815:

If it can be fixed why haven’t they in about half a year..

The answers are pretty obvious..

1) Cool skill or trait mechanics that made a certain class to be a little more fun to play, ANet is super efficient in swinging the nerf bat

2) Broken mechanics or glitches that caused a certain class to be underpowered, you will be lucky if ANet ever decide to fix them at all, otherwise, it will be broken as intended

3) Fixing and balancing classes is never their priorty. They are only interested in pushing forward new events that make them earn more $$.

Yep.

The Ele class doesn’t need a nerf but I think you personally need a buff.

Judging from all your previous posts you are a below average player, far from a skilled one. Are you getting owned by average Ele players all the time? Well it’s not the class, it’s you. You need more PvP practice. Try harder next time. Good luck.

The culling issue has actually gotten much worse after Anet claimed that they have fixed it.

Before the so-called ‘fix’, I can see incoming zerg from far away. Now I even have problem seeing the members of my own zerg when we were running around :I

Many a times I saw one or two enemies appearing at a distance and when I ran towards them for engagment, 10-20 more reds just popped out from nowhere. They must be thinking I am a sucidal player or an idiot lol

Kardiamond.6952:

People will get over the nerf.

Most people dislike when there class get nerfed, and it’s ok.

When Engi got a 30% damage nerf on their grenade, everybody cried.

Now, if you sPvP a bit, you will see that we have even more Engineer since that nerf.

Player will just adapt. Only a few will stop playing.

I agree that most players will adapt to the NERF and only some will stop playing.

But that’s only until another decent MMO comes along. Those who struggled to adapt will have another choice then and many will not hestitate to jump ship.

Anet is very capable of ‘beautifying’ their actions by playing with words. Example, when they say they ‘fix’ something, they actually meant they are going to nerf it. Many skill bugs still being ignored and their priority is set on nerfing, I mean ‘fixing’ game play balance. Another example, the so-called Dynamic Levelling Adjustment. Nice words but it actually means Dynamic Levelling Nerf.

Seems to me that the AOE nerf is MAINLY for the Ele class. Why Anet?

When Anet put in treadmill progression into this game (ascended gears) I was rather disappointed and stopped playing for quite a while. I don’t do dungeons but who doesn’t want their characters to have the best gears?

Then my friend invited me to join him in WvW and ever since, I have been logging in everyday for hours and started to spend money on gems again.

Just a few days ago, I read news of Anet getting ready to swing a hugh nerf bat on the Ele class AGAIN. Well, I have stopped playing since. I shall wait and see how much damage is done to this class before I decide to pick up GW2 again or move on to upcoming MMOs.

I am tired of being hit by the nerf bat. Again and again. Really.

5 MINS in Divinity’s Reach and I got disconnected and rolled back TWICE. Please fix this.

Since Anet threw away the non-grinding-only-cosmetic manifesto with the Off-shore update, they might as well introduce the Holy Trinity classes into the game. Anyway their manifesto is already in the bin.

Hi.

Does anyone know if the blasting staff trait increase the area of healing rain and geyser as well? Or the trait only works for dps skill? Thanks in advance.

moirweyn.9872:

Downloading at the speed of backwards – I think I am uploading files to them.

lol. Having connection issue too. Pls fix this asap Anet

Yes it is still bugged.

The tooltip reads something like ‘the next five attacks will crit’. I activated the skill and tested it on mobs. Out of the first five hits, only two to three will crit

Without Arcane Power, my crit chance also gives me an average of 2 to 3 crits per 5 hit. This skill is useless until Anet fix it.

Oops. Sorry my bad :P

neon.4863:

It’s not available yet (assuming it’ll ever be available).

They are already in the Gem Store, under Services tab. Now I can change my hairstyle every month xD