Guild Wars 2

My personal fun comes from exploration. I’m still only about 70% through the map on my first char because I’m taking my time exploring every nook and cranny I find. The grinding achievements simply doesn’t appeal to me. I’ve done most of the dungeons once through simply to see what they are like. But the idea of farming them over and over is kind of depressing.

GW2 has a simply beautiful world and that’s the bit that I enjoy.

Even the new arena and gauntlet I only really wanted to see to ‘see what theyd done with the place’ as it were with the great collapse.

Dastion.3106:

Being one-shot is the easy part. It’s NOT being one shot that is hard. If you look at action games acclaimed for their difficulty and challenge, you’ll notice the theme of needing to ‘learn the fight’ as the challenge because it gives players something to work on and overcome as a single player or team.

Dark Souls, Raids in other MMOs, MOBAs, they all encompass that aspect of not requiring simply someone ‘good at games’ but instead require you learn all of the aspects of the fight. It’s an area where GW2 was sadly lacking when released and it’s good to see a change in their direction.

This is entirely misleading. In Dark Souls the bosses are very very hard. But they all have ridiculously readable attacks even if they can one shot you. Yes it’s a hard game because of the strengths and variety of attacks, but it’s much much easier to see them coming and learn the sequences than it is in GW2 on this gauntlet because most of the attacks have very small wind ups, which utterly defeats the point of the one shot skills.

They aren’t even necessarily easy to avoid in Dark Souls they just give you a reasonable chance at if if you have a decent skill level.

I raged at Suriel the Blazing Light. I kept entering the arena and within 2 seconds got one shotted. Because of that stupid invulnerable ball it’s fing hard to see any sort of wind up to that one shot skill as moving the camera seems to be a no no. I’ve never cared that much about achievement hunting so decided to leave it and threw away my tickets.

It does seem like poor design to me though. Even just making the camera work properly would improve the arena design 10 fold.

Back to exploring for me anyhow.

Yeah just submitted a ticket. I got hacked a while back and sorted it but didn’t carry on playing. I guess the world transfer could have happened then because I didn’t check.

Edit: More annoying because when I last played world transfers were free :/

It’s been a long time since I’ve played GW2 and I come back and for some reason I’ve been transferred to the US world ‘Sorrows Furnace’. I then look at the transfer and see that it would cost me £17 to buy the gems to transfer back even though I never made the swap in the first place.

The original world I was on was the Gandara world This is doubly annoying as I tend to play in the morning and as far as I can see the US server is practically deserted. If I could request a transfer to the world I was originally on that would be great.

Ok so I bought the game in Europe, UK specifically, a while back and got the urge to play again. The issue is I’m travelling and currently in India. I’m trying to download the game but the download speed is averaging around 30 kb/s. I have no idea why this is happening as torrents, youtube, other streaming ect runs perfectly and my internet speed frequently goes to 2 mb/s. I’m wondering why the GW2 downloader doesn’t seem capable of topping 40 kb/s.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as naturally downloading 15gb at that speed is kind of ridiculous.

Thank you!

Server: Gandara
Dungeon: Arah
Problem: Gates still stuck at ‘Pact is preparing to establish a forward base’. Been like this for 2 weeks at least (I only got there in that time) but peeved I can’t finish my personal story. Why is this not 100% priority fix?

100% this. My main is a necro and I’ve used the flesh golem for a long long time. I don’t mind it attacking random people (distracts them for me to run through), what I mind is my golem standing 2 ft away, even being attacked in some cases, and never attacking back. This happens so much and is very frustrating.

Yeah pretty hacked off over this. Finally got to the end of my story (still my first char) only to discover I can’t do the mission to finish it because of some fing gates :/