Guild Wars 2

(TL;DR: Yes to an improved method of healing. Otherwise I love all the guardian’s just the way they are ;x)

I don’t really feel this. I love my DH. Loved her before she was a DH too. Loved her back when guardian DPS was often considered “lol”. It would be very cool if it could have a better healing spec than currently. It does alright in clerics/magis but it’s kinda tricky and doesn’t hold up as well as druid of course (We could really do with other healing options that are as useful as druid). Aegis stacking sounds ridiculously overpowered, I’m happy with my low health pool purely because we have aegis at all. I’m not sure I’d feel quite right if we had the large, or even the middle health pool ranges too. Overhealing, sounds nice, but also sounds like one of those dreaded power creeps.

Hail ye lords of forums and meta. I have a question for y’all:

Why does no one ever make builds for scepter? Why is it all about dagger and staff? (This is for PvE btw, I’m not really fussed whether one is better than the other for PvP)

Anyway I’ve been running my scepter/dagger ele for as long as I’ve been playing ele (It’s not my main, don’t worry). I sometimes switch to staff as needed, I never use the main hand dagger I have in reserve.

Why? Because either I’m doing something terribly wrong with d/d or scepter is better Damage Per Hit (DPH) and is better area might stacking.

I could see perhaps that d/d is better sustained damage right? – as a berserker geared anything, how frequently do you get to sit in front of a boss spamming a sustained DPS rotation? I find there’s always a reason to duck out and recover and then go back into deal damage. In which case a sustained build is going to lose out on a burst. A burst DPS, bursts, then fannies about either for cooldowns or for healing, then bursts again. A sustained having to duck out to recover is losing DPS, a burst DPS is not.

Here’s my build http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJArYnMICNNgNYC2NAcYilBAzd1GbvtBBgBQBQoSWBOBA-TBROwAgV/ZkyPA7PITJIA-e

Also on that note I’ve been struggling to stay with tempest and not switch it out for arcane. The overloads are nice, specifically the fire one, but my rotation works much much better with attunement cooldowns and blast finisher on earth dodge roll.

Same build with arcane instead of tempest http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJArYnMICNNgtMA2NA8RghBALCADgCgUJrAngqNsGODA-TBROwAyUCOS5Hg9HAr+DA-e

My rotation is:
DT into fire ring>Phoenix>Aftershock(Arcane wave if ele)>Earth attunement>(Dodge roll if ele)Earthquake>Churning Earth(If there’s time, may save for next rotation)>Air attunement>zapzappow>Air Overload(Or into water to heal if in trouble)>Fire attunement>DT into fire ring>Fire grab and phoenix if off CD and then hit Fire overload>DT and fire ring if ready again>Earth for any blast finishers>Air for overload and then repeat in roughly the same order. Arcane brilliance gets used preferably in a fire field somewhere in that rotation and can assume dodge roll in fire field as first thing to do when switching to earth as ele.

So really would appreciate some other input here because I don’t appear to be able to see it and the d/d/staff focused builds don’t explain why well enough to satisfy me.

S/d burst damage is great. S/d blasting in fire is great – other than large hit boxes the DPH/Burst (whatever we wanna call it) seems like the better option. And then it’s got what seems to be a bit more condi damage on top, not that I ever pay attention to condi damage. I pug a lot so having an organised team is rare so I like to run ele so even if it’s a pug full of bunkers there’s enough might and fury that the run isn’t painfully slow, s/d seems to be the best for this.

Edit: I did try DPS tests of the same build once with d/d and once with s/d, this is why I’m thinking I’m doing something wrong with d/d, might stacks were lower with d/d and it took over half a minute longer to do the same amount of damage with d/d. This was the test golem, l used zero enhancements, just spawned the golem and let rip.

Edit 2: Just tested my s/d as ele on the golem, it was about 13 seconds slow to deal the same amount of damage but it had > 90% 25 might stack uptime. Which is going to be too much in a party. I seem to be able to keep up 15-20 easy enough as Tempest and I guess it’d only take one or two more people doing area might to be efficient. But then, when pugging stuff, even that can be a big ask. lol

That’s fine haha! I don’t want to pug anymore! I want to progress in fractals and learn/practice melee’ing lupi, which is a major headache to learn do as a 100% pugger. People don’t explain things when asked and then rage and/or quit because the party fails due to lack of information – Thamaunova Reactor is the WORST for this, literally, must have pugged that a good ten times since I started playing again and no one can ever seem to spend a minute explaining how things work! I finally got round to just looking up what to do on the wiki, but, like, if I’m having to wiki stuff while in a team controlled by four other human beings, who have required info… I may aswell play an offline game! /rant

I’ve barely touched on T2 so I’m way out of your league just now. Thank you though I really appreciate it!

Hello! I’m looking for a group. Now before you send me to the LFG tool in game, I’m looking for something a little less brief than that.

So I quit for some time and came back a few weeks ago. All my old friends have stopped playing and my old guilds are dead too. I’m now in an active guild which I’m happy to be in but it’s not actually satisfying my gaming needs and I don’t want to keep searching for what I want in guilds because: There’s only so many times I feel comfortable being welcomed into a guild, meeting lots of lovely people, then disappear on a search for people who can help me with my gaming itch.

So what I’m kind of looking to find here: is a group of people/friends who do dungeons/meta/fotm/raid/whatever who’d like to adopt this very british bloke into their fold. I can use voice chat, I play US servers, I’m on EST+5 (though I’ve found the aussie end of the world and the US all-nighters are on when I am), 12k cheevo points, every class at 80 w/ zerker gears.

Also I’m silly.

And if not, are there any other players out there who find themselves pugging 99% of their playtime? We could START a group!

Happy to receive messages in game. Cheers

I’m reviving my alt guild for the purpose of collecting nice pugs I find. It’s not really a guild, 0% rep required, will set up voice chat this weekend for it. If you’re a lone pugger and want to join other lone puggers, send me a message. OR likewise if you know of anything like this already that I can sneak into

Perhaps the thing is not clearing the maps for over two years since the poi/hearts/wp have been added. I remember at the time when I got the new WP in plains of ashford I didn’t get anything for it. Since there’s no returning player incentive, this will do it for me! Not that I needed any incentive haha!

I’ve got 4 toons that were 100% world. I redid the maps that were 99% and I got rewards for them. Every single time. This is all in the last few weeks too so it’s not like it’s been so long I’ve forgotten! Keys or charges with about 40 of some material or another, and crap gear. What I didn’t get was a second set of exploration gifts which is to be expected.

Hey Lankybrit! I’m a shortandskinny brit! Pretty much same as you I quit early 2014 and just came back a couple of weeks ago. For your daily problem there, it can be 50/50ish on getting the event completer done quickly, even if you know where events are, can get a bad draw of them spawning for when you appear there – it’s the one of the dailies I’d rather not bother with, because of that!

In these last few weeks that I’ve played… things that are notably different that I can think of:

-If you ever used the player-made ‘immersive combat mod’ all those years ago, guild wars has its own version now (big deal for me!)
-Right click your salvage kit when salvaging – You can salvage everything in one go now!
-Dungeon token rewards are much better: More tokens in general per run and a box containing your choice of token every 8 explorable runs. (also I don’t know if story modes got nerfed or classes got buffed but I solo’d AC story the other day without breaking a sweat, I’m essentially a re-newb, I don’t really know how I did this if the answer was “I’m more skilled than 2/3 years ago” seriously it was so easy o.o.)
-If you had mystic coins left, hold on to them, they’ve suddenly become high demand without a reliable source for acquiring them.
-Boss defiance: Doesn’t have stacks anymore – it seems to be a bar that depletes when CC is used on it, bar goes down and then CC works till bar fills. Doesn’t seem to make a massive difference for PvE really except I’m finding dungeon bosses tend to be fought a little more as designed (at least in the pugs I’ve been in) rather than “yank into corner, stack within hitbox, spin to win”.
-World bosses are pretty much the same as they were, maybe with a few little changes, but I think they are the same for me as when I quit. (/wiki et <for the event timer)
-Some consumable items can be right clicked for a “Consume all” option.
-Check out the collections part of your achievements tab – there’s lots of stuff to be acquired from all over the game through that, I’m still a bit overwhelmed by that panel personally, will get to it eventually, lol.
-Fractals of the mist is much more structured than it was, no randomness and properly tiered.
-100% world exploration toons – They’ll be under 100% now so there’ll be a few maps with things to get, you’ll get another map reward for those which will usually include a transmutation charge or a black lion key:
1-Plains of ashford: Exit from the black citadel and the two hearts you’re looking for are both north of you (cows and then skritt), there’s also a waypoint near the bottom of the map by a guild mission but I think that would have been there long before you quit.
2-Caledon forest: Exit from the grove and the heart you’re looking for will be north and then west near the start.
3-Brisban wildlands: POI in the very far southwest of the map, also a WP near the northwest edge.
4-Any other missing POI’s are probably going to be in LA.

Hmmm I can’t actually think of any more core game notables right now. I think I’ve assimilated most of them already so they’re the norm in my head.

HoT though, if you were as in love with gw2 as I was before I quit (didn’t want to quit) then HoT will just go and reimagine that love like a wrecking ball. For the £35 or whatever it was, (I don’t think the higher priced versions are worth the price unless you’re a gem buyer anyway), is definitely a crapton for your quids. The HoT story is epic (I just finished my first toons one yesterday and I can’t help but feel that anet writers did a lot of quite solid jabs at the player community, but that’s just speculation, but I don’t see how else they could make those jabs and get away with it! XD). The new maps are gi-bloody-normous AND have the added dimension of up and down, It sometimes feels like they’re as tall as they are wide or long. HoT mobs are more challenging than central Tyria, like, you do have to pay attention, they will wreck you. I’ve just got myself into the latest living story maps and it seems like there’s some whole other blooming madness of adventurings happening there too. If I wasn’t so excited I’d probably be overwhelmed!

Your guild question: I have a personal guild but it’s no longer actually useful except for the extra storage space really. It would take a long time to figure out the new guild mechanics, and then implementing solo… yeuch. I’d say there’s no shame in pugging your self into a guild with a hall and all the fancy new things (which reminded me I’ve been forgetting to mine the daily resources in my guilds hall), you can still goto guild halls without HoT! yay! You just can’t use half the features there.

Hope that’s helpful in some way !

Konig hit all the nail’s on the head for me. ANet! Please hire him!

It’s a tricky issue.. at the end of the day, stories are at the whim of the pen holders and that should be enough for me, it usually is, I generally speaking don’t get disgruntled when I read books. I get to the end and I’m sad that it’s over and during the reading I always can’t wait for what comes next, sometimes I find a book that looks interesting but I end up getting too bored of it to follow correctly and find myself reading a whole page or two without taking a word of it in, in those cases I tend to drop the book.

When I play video games I almost always go for games with good lore and a story that keeps me hooked because I like to feel I’m in some ways reading a book amongst the hours I’m wasting at a computer. Sadly, at the moment, my own personal opinion, the active story telling in GW2 feels more like the kind of books I don’t connect to whereas if I just follow the Lore as it unfolds and ignore the specifics of how the story is told between NPC’s and instances, I still find myself pretty interested. But then that’s the perspective of an outsider reading a legend, not a pivotal character within the story. I appreciate that what’s missing for me could be supplemented by a certain amount of roleplay and imagination, but I can’t remember ever picking up a book and thinking I’ll have to imagine anything more than what the characters and lands look like.

For the first half of the living story my character felt fresh and new and had a lot to learn, indeed the racial and order mentors helped build on that. As the pact forms and moves into Orr Trahearne takes over and I can live with that, I’m not a Trahearne fan by far so I did start to feel desensitised from my character but not enough that I’d notice it till other players voiced feelings of wishing the PC had been ‘the chosen one,’ Trahearne actively (though rather pompously) respected us and that makes a difference to my feeling of the perception of the main character. LS unfolded and with it came the new characters and it feels, at this point, my PC left the scene and my character is more or less just a tagalong mercenary (which I actually wouldn’t mind if it was written in but it wasn’t and my PC feels dumped there). From the snippets of text conversation the PC has, I’m left wondering where my personality went or why going through through the Zhaitan war 2 years ago as a commander hasn’t built me into a warmongering or charismatic or noble leader. My character deserves respect and I don’t feel like she gets the acknowledgement or reactions from D.E2 that she deserves, though I will say I’m very impressed with the racial acknowledgements in S2 dialogues.

But then, maybe we’re being built up for some bigger than I’d expect such as this group of ragtag adventurers ending up being captains in a pact regiment that we command, or something. I think that would be awesome, and indeed I could very well just imagine this, or any other wonderful details. I’m not devoid of imagination by any means but the danger is that I supplement my character with ideas and stories that will get shattered by what the writers write in the future for them, which will further desensitise me to my character. One of my characters started a bloodthirsty campaign against Kralkatorrik because it seemed the rest of the world had gone back home for a break after the fall of Zhaitan, wait no, that’s not true we’re doing Mordremoth now! Which is fine and all but I hope the point is heard. I don’t mind not getting what I want, I do mind my character feeling let down. It’s a quite an unusual, selfish-selfless feeling o.O

Forgot to say, just got my first newbie to 80 under this system, had all the traits I needed already except some from 80 zones that I hadn’t walked to yet, without buying, mostly without help, most importantly without much hassle at all.

Perhaps some people should just see buying traits as the primary route and exploring/whatever as the alternative acquisition.

Also Nilkemia, I did all read that and I kind of see where you’re coming from. But in particular I feel like those places with traits that are over-expected-level are just sub-goals to work towards as your leveling. If you get to lv30 and you’ve got all those traits, the goal is to get to level 60. If you get to lv30 and want a trait from a lv42 area, you can start making your way in that direction and maybe even become level appropriate upon arrival.

Also, ‘tedious, annoying, ridiculous and frustrating’ are all on the same end of the scale, the range isn’t especially vast there. :P

I reeeeally don’t get what all the complaining about, is it just change? I think it’s just change.

I don’t understand why it would be unwelcoming to new players, new players being players who did not know what it was like before and therefore have no basis for comparison.

Skill points are not that hard to come by, sure they’re a little troublesome on the road to and around 30 (because of elites and assuming no skill books) but once you hit 80 you get well more than you’ll ever need.

There are a lot of traits to buy! I probably would never consider using half of the traits on any of my toons, if I don’t have traits unlocked that I will never use then I’ll find it simpler when trying to change traits when in a hurry, less misclicking or confusing numerals from other lines, not a big thing by any means but still sort of handy.

Hmm maybe it’s just people who haven’t played GW1 who don’t like this. Anyway, I was really disappointed at launch that we wouldn’t be going out and smashing bosses faces to capture our skills. This near enough comes close to that. Thank you Anet.

I’m totally in agreement and in the same place as you are, Soa. Nice posts by the way. I’m sitting on 4.5k hours, x3 100% world, thirteen 80’s and two 20’s (I know… I know…). I still very much love the base of gw2 but since I’ve had less free time to play for the last few months my motivation to play when I do get time to login is diminished. Temporary time gated achievement farming or long term grinding for ascended gear.

I have ascended GS on my guardian and I could probably have a full armour set in not too long if I made an effort but . Had this big grind for mats or gold spending resulted in awesome awesome awesome skins only, I might have been much more enthusiastic.

I really enjoy farming dungeon tokens so that I can make a new toon and its optimal level 80 gear is already sorted so I could in turn use that toon to grind tokens for my next alt, that’s how I enjoy gw2 and I could probably play like that forever. However I don’t enjoy pugging dungeons anymore, I used to do it for fun, the randomness on the group I’d get was enjoyable but now it’s silent elites or silent newbies which are just boring and annoying, least of all when someone flips out because something went wrong. Maybe I’ve just been unlucky there though.

I’ve gotta say the biggest thing that puts me off right now is living story content. I like the concept of the world changing around us and everything, that’s great! But if I can’t login much or at all for two weeks and miss a whole segment (which has happened a few times) I feel like “What’s the point making sure I login for the next part?” it’ll be gone, non-re-playable, I’ll have missed out on points, items, Lore. I don’t really understand why these things have to be temporary so much.

Love the combat engine. Love the lore (not including most of the personal story or living story). Love the skins/armour system. Love the exploration. Love the event system. Love being able to waltz in and save people from certain death, solo. LOVE the dungeons (when we’re not all stacking in a corner for every single bleeding boss).

I know I’m burned out as well. But with 4.5k hours I definitely got my moneys worth so all in all it’s fair game. So I think I’ll also be taking a varied break from GW2, might pick up GW1 again despite my having zero social structure there now. I miss the bday gifts, the mob AI, body blocking, permanent achievement lines that take a long time/effort to finish, being THE hero.

Dredge fractal single handedly puts me off doing fractals at all. It’s not that it’s hard. It’s that it’s long, stressful with pick ups and just generally feels like a chore not something I would do for fun. I would be happy with less obnoxious spawns or that whole first part with the pads to be removed.

I literally can’t find anywhere else I might ask this. Have been using the combat mode mod for a year now, I absolutely can NOT play without it. I’m now using windows 8 and I can’t downgrade to windows 7. The combat mod seems to work perfectly still except that I can’t get crosshairs to show up on my screen. Has anyone had a similar problem and know a workaround for this?

This would appear to be a bug with “on swap” sigils when you die. I posted about this the other day regarding sigils of energy but hadn’t tested any of the others. This should be enough evidence to confirm this bug. To fix this bug you need to change maps or unequip then re-equip the weapons with those sigils slotted.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Superior-Sigil-of-Energy-bug/first#post2648559

Potentially a bug with “On swap” Sigils

The Superior Sigil of Energy stops working if I die. To fix it I have to re-equip the weapons or change instance/map, relog. This bug was most prominent to me when attempting Liadri as I died a lot, lost a fair amount of attempts due to not having 50% endurance when swapping which I was depending on. As far as I have been aware this bug has only been occurring since the initial Queen’s Pavilion/Gauntlet update. I don’t know if this occurs with the Major sigil of energy. I don’t know if this happens with any other “On swap” sigils.

Sorry it’s just you’ve posted that so often I can’t take it seriously. If there was some evidence to support what you’re saying then maybe it’d be different. But from where I’m standing it’s looking like a small guild with a very small minority putting in a huge pile of work to make it stand out more than it does on its own. I’m not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing, I’m saying that misleading whether intentional or not just isn’t… good.

Maybe as a guest I can’t see the full volume of posts and threads but your forums (when I looked) had mostly boards which had topics equal to half or a third of posts and there were not many of either.

I also want to point out that I clearly am looking for a very particular type of guild. I haven’t asked for a guild that plays all aspects of the game and can help me with my cause in between all the other things they do. I couldn’t be much more specific and this is something I’ve seen you do before, the one aspect someone is looking for in a guild is one of the many listed aspects your guild would hope to be active in so you post the whole thing. It’s like an annoying salesman that you can’t get rid of and you can’t remember why you’re talking to them in the first place.

Sorry, bad day :S

Your post seems to fulfil every requirement I could possibly want from a guild. But looking at your posting history I can see you only ever copy/paste that. And you do that a lot. Which makes me think that actually you’re just trying really really hard to get members, which suggests you need members. And after looking at your site… yeh. Do yourself a favour and reply less formally to people if you want them to be interested. The same very formal post over and over doesn’t look inviting and since your guild clearly isn’t as developed as you’re presenting it to be, makes you look stupid too. Try more informal, try concise, try accurate. You may find it’s more efficient and yields positive responses.

Edit: Apologies for the harshness. I’ve just been through 3 “Experienced active guilds” which were neither experienced or active and only barely guilds.

I have a main guild but it’s 95% casual which I am not. And since now everyone just seems to want to farm champions, I am left with pugging for dungeons. I’m experienced in every route of every dungeon (I’ve even been helping people get their title), I’ve got an 80 fully zerkered up of every class so whatever you need I can provide.

Whether you’re a small guild with a solid dungeon group or a large guild with lots of dungeoneers I would like to hear from you.

IGN: Nayaru Lovegood

I can’t begin to describe how satisfied I am with the gauntlet. It’s the kind of solo play I’ve been waiting for, for a while. Yes I know it’s an MMO you’re not supposed to look for the solo play, whatever. It’s how people shine in a game with no trinity. I enjoyed all of the fights and I have gotten all of the achievements done. My only complaints really are essentially what Drakkon is saying: There are design flaws with the current gauntlet. I was killed several times by Illusions that I didn’t see coming because they spawn on the wall that I’m backing up to and my camera doesn’t show them till it’s too late. I understand PvE culling is going away but it would have been really great if that came with the gauntlet, your queue popping right as a zerg is fighting a legendary below usually means you’re waiting for the boss to appear and often will die from an attack that hasn’t loaded on screen so you didn’t know you had to dodge it. I’m still experiencing a dodge bug where i see my character roll.. slowly.. like a walk through time, endurance gets used, i take full damage, but that’s not a gauntlet design issue.

Also the final trial, I like that it’s hard. It’s the kind of difficulty where you will probably only get through it with a decent amount of fluke (or at least for me anyway), my only complaint there is that the difficulty of the preceding gauntlets did not prepare me in the slightest. It’s how I felt at launch after exploring most of the world and then going into a dungeon for the first time BAM HARD MODE NOW.. thanks for the warning I guess…

Despite my complaints I had so much fun filling up this achievement line and I really hope to see more games like the gauntlet from Anet in the future. Instanced or otherwise, just so long as culling doesn’t affect it. :P

Oh I’m sorry. I read over your recruitment post and actually I think it would suit me. However I’m on an NA server and I really should have put that in my title. Sorry and thanks for replying!

I’m very much devoted to my guild and that isn’t likely to change. However as a Dungeon Master in a 90% Casual guild I often find it frustrating getting my dungeon runs. It would just be really great if I had an alternative guild I could look to to get runs done. I’m growing bored of pugging dungeons with faceless people who I’ll never miss and who’ll never remember me, it just makes it less fun.. I’m pretty much exclusively looking for an established dungeoneering guild that doesn’t mind me not repping a whole lot except when doing dungeons and what not. If you’re in a guild that doesn’t provide these two things then I have to respectfully decline.

If you are from a good guild for this then I can assure you I’m experienced and rarely if ever am a drag on a party. If I am it’s because I’m unaware of tricks being used, lagging, tired, whatever. lol. I understand this is a bit of a tall order but I really can’t even consider dropping my guild even if it doesn’t satisfy everything I need. Thanks in advance!

Lame. What I thought would be an interesting thread turned into bickering. I hope you two are having fun. :P

I’m 90% Calm laid back guy and I don’t like raising faults with anet that much because I really like what they’ve got going. BUT THREE MONTHS this has been going on and it’s getting worse. I’m at the end of my kittening tether. Last night me and 4 guildies spent HALF AN HOUR JUST TRYING TO GET EVERYONE IN TO THE SAME INSTANCE. Not to mention some of us had to rejoin party just so we could see everyone who had joined in the party interface. Why should we be guesting, switching toons, relogging, entering a different instance to reset personal instance to hope it lets you join the parties instance? WHY IS THIS STILL HAPPENING GUYS? REALLY?

So I login today and some guildies want some help with path 3 of AC. 2 people left their party for whatever reason. I join the party. I head over to AC. What do I get? http://i.imgur.com/aw3OLaV.jpg WHAT IS THIS NOW? I’m not joining a different server, i’m not trying to join overflow. I am trying to join the AC group that is on my server and need a 5th person to join them. Nothing I did worked around this.

Seriously. There are problems and glitches in this game but none of them waste peoples time this much. Why isn’t this prioritised?

This is frustrating for me as an Ex-QA Assistant Dev for another MMO. If something like this happened all I’d have to do is detail how to duplicate it or at least write down the parameters of how it happens, give the details to the QA lead and say “look this is bothering many players we should try to get a patch rolled out soon” they’d look at the details, find the problem, roll out a fix then and there if it was urgent enough or in the next available game update if one was due soon anyway. And that was a F2P MMO where the paid part of the QA team were rarely motivated to fix anything if it wasn’t game breaking or costing them money. I’d hate to think Anet QA team are the same.

Same problem different location. After fighting Mai Trinn and her friend, Ellen became stuck on the rocks just by the bridge to the airship. Nothing we did could get her to move and she did nothing when interacted with. No one saw at what point she moved there and became stuck. What would be really great is if there was a way we players could reset the npc such as everyone wiping and having the npc spawn back with us at the waypoint.

For everyone having problems joining dungeons. If you get no prompt at all just re join the party. I haven’t seen relogging fix this any time.

If you get the prompt but nothing happens try guesting to ANY server. Doesn’t have to be the server of the person who started it, just the act of guesting seems to clear that. Changing maps works too but not every time.

If you like having an advantage over other players based on wallet size or amount of play time, this game isn’t for you.

Most of the MMO’s I’ve played previously there is always someone who’s got better gear because they’ve played for hundreds upon thousands of hours more than me, in some MMO’s there are people whos gear is so good because of the money they’ve pumped into the game that they don’t need an ounce of skill to play, they just button mash. The only thing that makes another player better than me in GW2 is that they’re more skilled. GW2 is for me!

I was just going to make a post about this but here’s one already! I’m not going to go into Dragon style event lag, I think everyone knows about that. I don’t WvW ever so I can’t comment there either. However in Cursed Shore and Dungeon runs for the past couple of days I’ll get random lag spikes, for about 10seconds my framerate plummets so that I’m basically having to guess at what my character needs to be doing. This tends to happen a lot more in cursed shore than in dungeons. I’ve tried running graphics on all lowest possible settings but it still happens. After the 10seconds on either “best performance” or “auto detect” my gameplay resumes to being as smooth as I’ve ever known it to be. In cursed shore it happens again within a few minutes if there are a lot of other players around, in dungeons it’s not common enough to be able to guess when it’ll happen again but the fact that there’s only 5 players rendered might mean this isn’t necessarily caused by other players. I haven’t changed my hardware in months and this has only just started happening so either there’s something not right with the game or there’s something going wrong with my hardware that I’m unaware of. If there’s any way to find out I’ll do it, I just have no idea how. lol.

Ok so I happened to be messing around in Cursed shore seeing how big a hit I could get off when a Plinx started up, I thought what the hey! And followed the chain while a mass of players joined. by the time Plinx was done there were a lot of players and most of us headed for the newly spawned Champion Abomination. (I told this little story just so you know what kind of number of players there were). This was where it got a bit crazy. My ele has no traits in water or earth and every single piece of gear is berserkers with ruby orbs, so not one ounce of vit or toughness to speak of. This freaking champion stuck to me like glue with a rather big zerg around me, when it got to 15+ stacks of frenzy and was speeding after me like a overgrown sonic the hedgehog I just couldn’t keep up with the dodging anymore and it downed me, I mist formed away and round a corner away from the fight in the hopes of being rezzed or rezzing myself, it chased me down and hammered me to death. I was rezzed by several lovely people (i usually just WP but by the time I’d typed “wow he likes me” I was half rezzed already). I rejoined the fight, it chased me down, I managed to last long enough so that I died right before it died…. but exactly the same as the first time, I got downed, I mist formed away, it chased me down and smashed me into the ground again. I wasn’t the first one to hit it, I just don’t understand what I did to deserve this kind of attention, it never happens in dungeons. Am I unlucky or is this normal behaviour for champions outside of dungeons versus low armor/HP ele’s?

Grast doesn’t cast his bubble in time, he’s too busy casting an attack. Why does he need to have a cast that long? Interrupts CR’s rockfall is NOT Working. Sure it said “Interrupted” every time we tried but a few seconds later we’ve got rocks falling anyway and Grast hasn’t cast his bubble and there’s no where to hide once you’ve used two dodges, renewed focus and grast has died. I like the mechanic but please for the love of god, some one make it work right. Don’t have Grast attacking at all if he has to attack so freaking slowly.

So I can’t tell if this is my own error or not, it just seems odd that it’s been happening happening a lot recently and never before (Been playing since prelaunch). So for about the last week sometimes when I hit a skill..like heal…I notice a second or two later it hasn’t actually activated. This happens more commonly when clicking a skill with my mouse but also every so often with my keyboard too. I had an instance earlier where I actually had to look and check that my finger had just pressed the number 2 key and not the number 1 key when my Guardians Whirling wrath had failed to execute after the key had been pressed twice. The skills in question were not in cooldown when this happened, of this I am sure. It’s not an issue for perhaps 95% of my gameplay but does seem to occur more often when I need everything working properly…typically xD.

Is this happening to anyone else? If I really am the only person experiencing this I guess it’s time to buy another new keyboard and mouse. o.O

Again…. the class wasn’t what I cared about it was the race. Seriously. Posted asking for an opinion and just get stupid replies for something insignificant. I’m sorry you guys don’t care about what race your toon is or that you can craft it to high level pretty fast. Some of us like some variation with our toons and it’s not like there’s much else to spend gold on when you don’t care about legendary farming. facepalm Thanks Walker, Damage it is..

Yes Ele, I deleted it to change the race. Only took 3 days to re level though lol.

Got bored of a bunker Asuran so deleted and remade as a DPS Sylvari! Not my main buuut anyway. I’m nearing level 80 again and I can’t decide if I want to invest in Full Zerkers or Full Rampagers. I’m 15/25/0/0/30. Using Scepter/Dagger or Staff. It seems Staff benefits more from Crit damage and Scepter benefits more from conditions…so I’ll probably end up getting a set of both :P But for now, anyone got any insights/advice? Please note I am not at all interested in WvW so comments like “Just about any other class can kill you before you login” is not helpful. Thanks!

P.S: I also prefer to make and figure out my own builds so don’t waste your own time telling me a better trait spread. xD Though you can if you like and I’ll read but I probably won’t take any of it back with me.

There should really be a way to see who is the Party/Dungeon leader and there should be a way to promote someone else to be the Party/Dungeon leader to prevent this kind of thing happening. Having only one person assigned to the instance makes it simple to reset and all but simpler and clearer would be having everyone tied to the current instance and having a “Reset current party instance” option as long as everyone is outside the dungeon. These are things that are common in other MMOs I’ve played. I’m not entirely sure why they’ve set the current awkward system to be as it is… Devs! Hear our pleas, please! :P

RNG = RANDOM number generation. Capitalised the important word here that I think people forget about…

helladoom.4317:

Nayaru.4716:

helladoom.4317:

Nayaru.4716:

If it feels like Arenanet are doing nothing to address problems it’s simply because staff are not posting in every other thread that complains or reports.

I think it feels like that because after half a year still quite a few DE’s remain bugged or otherwise inaccessible.

Not that many actually. Almost every bugged event that I encountered when I was 100% worlding my first toon in september was no longer bugged when I 100% worlded my second toon in december/January. There were bugged events but reeeeeeally not “Quite a few”, certainly less than my first 100% world, and almost never the same ones.

Events that are bugged eventually get reset and are then not bugged until they become bugged again. No-one said bugged events are bugged all the time or that certain events are bugged at specific times.

But more importantly – as i said previously: enough events are either bugged often or are group events that are being ignored by the player base (making that content in effect unplayable, eg certain temples in Malchor’s Leap) – that it is noticeable to the many end-game players who spend a lot of time in Orr.

My post was just basically describing an example, I haven’t only ever played PvE during the times I 100% worlded those two toons. If I have to go into detail, I do Orr stuff a lot amongst other things including low to mid level range areas for whatever reason (helping friends/guildies/whatever). There’s been a NEW issue with Balthazar on my server this month but the Temples and other events in Malchors and Cursed shore have been largely working correctly. At any rate, problems you are seeing are almost certainly not the same issues that were there 6months ago. I don’t know why people are so convinced in believing game staff don’t care and don’t want to fix these problems when there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary… I think I’ll just leave this sort of thread alone from now on. Going around in circles. :P

Was having the same problems as reported in this thread, now I’m just having slow login times (just had to restart because the TP wasn’t loading up) after sitting tight and being patient while the loading issues slowly sorted themselves out. I’m on a NA server but playing from the EU if that’s any help identifying the problem.

helladoom.4317:

Nayaru.4716:

If it feels like Arenanet are doing nothing to address problems it’s simply because staff are not posting in every other thread that complains or reports.

I think it feels like that because after half a year still quite a few DE’s remain bugged or otherwise inaccessible.

Not that many actually. Almost every bugged event that I encountered when I was 100% worlding my first toon in september was no longer bugged when I 100% worlded my second toon in december/January. There were bugged events but reeeeeeally not “Quite a few”, certainly less than my first 100% world, and almost never the same ones.

Mystic forge in all the cities. <3 Dungeon Vendors. <3 One free cultural teleport stone (Like the hall of monuments one) that takes you back to the city of your race. <3 Do want! xD

Nodeninja.5321:

If you are ‘above average’ and know the fights, I wouldn’t care what profession you were as long as you weren’t a doosh. A good player can contribute no matter what class he’s playing.

^This.

Most people have already listed the favourites but really that will only matter if you’re pugging a lot, and are pugging with elitists who want nothing but what they consider the best class. Play what you will enjoy.

Nggggghhhh! I’d be very interested. Patient Dungeon master here! Though I’m full up on guilds and I can’t really consider leaving any of them xD I’m also on TC. Though if you wanna add me Beorn Saxon, perhaps I can be a filler if ever needed, opposed to grabbing a random person (If I become ‘no longer a random person from the forums’ that is).

There is really only one point I can agree on in this thread. That is regular server restarts being a good idea, once a week would be great for clearing bugged events. However it seems a little bit much to have regular restarts just for bugged events, yes bugged events are frustrating but they’re in the minority and they’re not preventing anyone from playing… 99%(?) of the game. They also should in theory be working correctly and almost certainly were at launch. I’ve been playing since launch and I haven’t seen bugged events stay bugged (and even if they do get bugged again it’s more often than not the result of a different error). Game staff have stated countless times that they are working on bugs it’s just even if they do throw a fix in, another problem may arise that could not be foreseen. Not to mention they will roll out fixes in one big go (Usually at the end of the month) rather than small increments.

I’ve played plenty of MMO’s before (Even worked as QA in one) and I’m used to bugs being ignored or put on such a low priority that I wonder if they’re actually not on any kind of priority. Arenanet are nothing like those companies. If we report bugs, they will get looked at and if the problem can be duplicated/identified then it will be getting fixed (at least attempted). If it feels like Arenanet are doing nothing to address problems it’s simply because staff are not posting in every other thread that complains or reports. I’m sure you could find one of the many posts which state the bug forums (amongst other forums) are looked at regularly by the Dev team without too much trouble.

Psybunny.8906:

haviz.1340:

Psybunny.8906:

What gear are you using? Toughness can often be the culprit here. Mesmers/thieves are probably full glass and if the guardian&warrior can’t grab aggro from you or keep it on themselves, then it’s fully their fault.

There are no tanks in this game.

Are you arguing higher toughness doesn’t yield in higher aggro? Or you have zero experience in who gets the aggro when you have full knight guard vs zerker warrs in the party. :P

And that guard/warr grabbing aggro from casters comment I made is related to:
A: guard should be able to grab mobs with GS 5, hold them in place with hammer and keep them on himself with high toughness.
B: Warr should be able to outdps any caster and keep the threat on himself since he’ll draw more aggro in melee than ranged.

His comment was clearly to point out that you can’t say “It’s fully someone elses fault if they are not able to grab aggro” and you confirmed this by saying “Guard ‘should’ be able to….” and “Warr ‘should’ be able to…”. Guardian GS 5 is a 30second recharge so that’s not reliable control once it’s been used once and that’s if the guardian is even using GS. DPS is not a definite way of taking aggro in all/any situation so that’s not reliable either. The only vaguely reliable way of kind of controlling aggro is having a high armor rating and it helps to have a shield. On top of this, there are triggers which can make an enemy change targets so you can’t ever be certain that you’ll have the aggro and you can’t ever be certain that you’ll keep the aggro except for certain specific bosses.

OP in my ele’s experience mobs sometimes chase me around and I figure that’s because it’s the squishiest one of the party (Mobs think “Yay a tasty treat”) but she’s very mobile, isn’t too easy for them to hit and I’m pretty sure that helps the mobs decide they’d rather go after someone they can do damage to.

Dredge are annoying. Not particularly tough, just annoying.

I used to be laggy in dungeons but not anywhere else before I upgraded my graphics card… Now no lag at all, and no complaints from anyone I run with either.

I’ve been doing 26 daily for a while now and haven’t had a single skin, I know I should probably get a bit higher but that’s besides the point. I took someone on their first ever lv20 run the other day and they got the Greatsword skin ………… They’re an Ele. What would be great is if we could buy skins with a high number of Pristine fractal relics… which are now slowly building up pointlessly xD

TA can be pain to skip through which many people seem to prefer doing, it’s very easy for someone to get caught behind and then there’s a looooooooong run/wait from the only waypoint in the dungeon. If you’re not skipping stuff you’ve gotta rely on your group being able to combat the sometimes particularly hard mobs in there. I know I’d rather just skip with a group that’s low DPS for example because there are some enemies in there that will ground your party if they can’t take them down fast enough.

With that said, those are the reasons I don’t pug TA ever if I can help it. Premade parties work better here.

I’m lv25, about half of those levels were gained with pugs so it’s certainly do-able. Just gotta have patience for every other bad pug you get.

Edit: if you’re lucky you might find a group you click with and end up asking each other regularly for your dailies and such. That’s what happened to me.

Does anyone even know where “Protect Bill and Hekja as they clear Risen from the area” begins? Is there perhaps a trigger event or a blocking event? I can’t even find where these NPC’s exist.