Guild Wars 2

It is supposed to be a challenge. I am mostly a PvE player, but I do play some WvW. I have 17 characters with WvW map completion, only 4 with total map completion.

Yes it takes time, patience and sometimes strategy. You have to keep checking the map for when your server captures what you need or changes to the right color. You arent going to be able to go in there and get it done in a couple of hours.

You traded via mail knowing full well that you could be scammed. You took a risk and you lost, end of story. Hopefully, youll know better next time not to trust someone in that circumstance again.

The TP IS the secure means of transaction between players. Its YOUR choice to use it or not. You can always sell the item to an NPC merch if the TP is too much trouble. The TP gives you a better return for valuable or in demand items and, in most cases, pays for the commission.

The reason there is no direct trade in this game is because in GW1, people would stand around in Kamadan spamming WTB/WTS all day long. They wanted to do away with that in this game.

Ill gladly pay the commission if it means I can just put the item or bid on the TP and I can go play the game instead of sitting in town all day trying to find a buyer or seller for what I want to sell/buy.

Bone soup
Bone necklace
Bone comb
Bone trinkets
Bone weapons

The possibilities are endless!
Bring on the bones!

I wondered the same thing. Kept reading and hearing how “bad” it was.
Did it with 3 guildies and 1 pug. Didnt use a voice server, 2 had run it before.
We wiped 2x at the lab and 2x at the final boss due to 3 of us being new to the fights.
3rd time we beat it. Took us 30-40 min total. It was fun so give it a go.

The dungeon isnt hard. Yes its a challenge but once you understand the mechanics, its not bad at all. Easier than many of the other dungeon paths and it was fun. The golums pulling can get annoying if a couple of party members are dead but no worse than the Harpy Fractal.

I did it the first time and finished it on my necro with 3 guildies and a pug, no voice server, 3 of us running it the first time, 2 had done it once before. Took us about 30-40 min to do. We wiped 2x at the lab and 2x at the final boss mainly due to 3 of us being new to it.

Ive always hated solo missions (note I do not mean story line missions). Hated them with a passion in GW1.

Really liked and enjoyed the Rox and Braham instances.

Didnt like Canach’s Lair when I first tried to do it on my necro. I found it very difficult and couldnt get through it. Switched to my warrior and used healing signet, dolyak signet, balanced stance, endure pain and signet of rage and got through it the first time with ease

I never had a crash until about a month or so ago it would happen occasionally. Then it seemed to stop a couple of weeks ago. Tonight, after the patch, it crashed an unprecedented four times.

The cost is absurd. I need ecto for sooo many other things.

Please make these and amulets available with fractal relics as well as with laurels.

My charr warrior

My necro sight seeing in Metrica

No thanks. The current trading post is a far better system.
Everyone hated sitting in Kamadan for hours spamming WTS/WTB or seeing that constantly. This way you just post it and leave it and go do something more meaningful. You can also instantly see if what youre looking for is available no more waiting for hours trying to get that one item you want.

Good fights DR and IoJ.
Good luck in the next matchup.

Well I gave the necro another shot in WvW tonight and did much better. Id been tweeking the build, armor, weapons, trinket etc and it seems to have paid off.

Of course it could also be that my team was having a good night but I feel better nontheless.

In PvE and Dungeons, fear is great as an interrupter. When the boss in the dredge fractal kneels to heal, I use fear to knock him out of it.

Fear is also great in WvW. When my team is trying to storm a tower or keep, I use fear on the walls to disrupt and annoy the enemy defending on the wall.

As some one said its not a skill youre going to spam. Its a skill that you use at the right place at the right time.

Today I came to the conclusion that my small guild of 10-15 people is a lost cause. We need 40K influence to start these missions. We cant recruit because no one wants a small guild that doesnt have these unlocked yet. Believe me we have been trying! We cant get the influence because the few members we do have active are joining and repping other guilds so they can do the content. Ive played with some of these people for 3+ years and have formed friendships that now mean nothing because we cant get anything done as a group.

So either I accept the fact that Ill never get to see the new content and just keep mapping with all my alts til I quit the game from boredom or I join an impersonal, mega guild of people I dont know and cant get to know anyone because its so big and where Im just a number to fill a roster requirement.

This has really killed my enthusiasm for the game so Im leaning more toward just uninstalling and finding another game. Thanks alot Anet, you really know how to ruin a good thing.

Having the tag on one character or all characters wont effect a commander refusing to turn off the tag, it wont make a good commander bad or a bad commander good.

Good players will very quickly figure out and recognize a bad commander from a good one and will stop following a bad one regardless of what name/character he is using. They will also remember the good ones no matter how many names they use. Many of my guild members have multiple alts with names that are very different from their other character. Somehow Ive managed to remember who is who despite that.

Also, Im guessing that every server has a community voice server. Most players join that server when playing (at least they do in my server). You get to know who is who simply from that.

If someone REALLY wants to have the tag on more than one character right now all they have to do is pull out a credit card and buy the extra books (Im sure that would make Anet very happy). What difference does it make if its already account bound or people donate for extra tags or players buy them with a credit card. The end result is the same: multiple characters on the account with the tag.

For the 100th time just for the sake of rebuttal again
No mounts PLEASE.
We dont need them. WP system is just fine.
Mounts would ruin the atmosphere of the game.
They werent in the first GW, they dont belong in the second GW
I agree with Uknortherner…this is getting rediculous
Thank you for reading

I was using the slot skill “run as one” I think its called. Its supposed to increase running speed for you and your pet by 25%. Seems like its actually the opposite and the character runs slower until the skill timer runs out then the character runs faster.

Is it me or do the charr just seem to run slower than the other races?

My asura, silvari and human seem to move so much faster.

Anyone else think the charr run slower?

I also have 3 charr characters and they are all female. I personally think the males are ugly. The females are sleek and graceful imo. They are my warrior, theif and necro. I had originally made my theif human but rerolled a charr because I love my other charr characters. They are my favorite characters to play.

My necro is set up as conditionmancer. In PvE and dungeons, most enemies/mobs melt in my conditions applied with epidemic. I can take down most regular 80 level enemies in Cursed Shore in 20 seconds or less solo. I run staff/scepter-dagger. All elite armor/weapons. Max condition stats, traits. Rabid weapons, trinkets and condition maxing runes. I pretty much run Lopez’s conditions build with slight modifications to the trait lines.

Ive pretty much given up on my necro for WvW because the skills just seem to hit like a wet noodle. I never seem to do enough damage to any one or anything. Being limited to hitting 5 people on AOE gimps that damage even further. Limiting the AoE to 5 players has done nothing to dissuade the zergs, if anything its made them stronger because they dont have to worry about wide spread AoE.

I hardly ever get any honor badges on the necro since those apparently drop based on damage.

I tried my warrior and in a couple of hours I got as many badges as I had gotten in days on the necro.

Ill still use the necro but not as often and only if its needed for the situation at hand.

General ranking ie: level 0-80 Character bound as it is now
General PvE titles/stats: Account bound as it is now
WvW titles/stats: Account bound
Commander title: Account bound

It would seem best, to me to put it on a class that kind of needs to be in a group so was thinking of putting it on my necro since necros really can’t be a solo roamer.

Since we can get no definitive word from Anet whether the commander tag will remain soul bound or go account bound, what class or classes do you think is best for a commander tag? Is there one best class?

People need to look up the definition of “rare”.
Exotics are even more rare than that.

If you got a rare every time you killed a champ it would no longer be “rare”

I thought this was going to be horribad then I played around with an ascalon fighter to see how many evades I could get off him. Got a couple of Skales as well. Ended up being kinda fun.

+1

Trying to complete mapping in WvW when one server dominates (not your own) all the time is impossible. Players on the disadvantaged server are being punished for something completely beyond their control.

I have to agree that something has to be done about this situation. As things are right now, players on servers that are serverely outmanned will never be able to finish map completion. Having to participate in WvW to get 100% mapping is absurd. I am being punished because my server has a lower population of WvW players and cant control the map. So to get map completion Ill have leave my guild and my friends and switch to another server? Thats not right.

Well for those of us on the servers that are getting rick rolled all the time now, it is impossible to complete mapping in the game because you can never get to the points that are locked in keeps and always in enemy hands no matter what you do.

Requiring WvW areas for 100% mapping was a stupid idea that punishes people just because they are on a losing server.

No mounts
No mounts
No mounts

Did I mention No mounts?

This game is fine without them. We dont need them and most dont want them.
If you want mounts go back to “that other game”

Please stop trying to make this game a clone of “that other game”

It would be nice if we could do dungeons with more than 5 people. GW1 had 8.
It would be awesome if the dungeons allowed up to 8-10 and scaled accordingly.

5 just seems so small and I always feel sad when someone has to get left out.
10+ raids…..IDK seems like it might be a clusterkitten.

+1 for changing the time I hate the current time as it is. Id rather see it reset sometime in the middle of the night or early in the day instead of 7-8PM

I think the nodes are fine as they are (level appropriate ore in the level appropriate zone).

I would like to see some more reliable way to get some of the other materials like bones, scales, claws etc, especially the t6 ones so that when I need them to level a crafter or for a specific item Ill have them.

I need 500 Viscious claws. Ive been playing almost every day since launch and Ive only got about 12 in drops even after spending a few hours trying to find a place to farm them. At this rate Ill probably never get them all. I would really rather not have to play the TP for these things because I didnt buy the game to be a trader.

Why cant we craft bloodlust, agony, accuracy etc sigils?

To the Devs: Is there any plan in the future to add receipes for them?

Thanks

Please get rid of these things. There are areas I cant get through because there are 5-6 enemies to fight and if you are too slow the vines grow up and damage you. Ive died numerous times trying to get past these areas only to have to respawn back where I started because every other waypoint is contested.

Huge waste of time. Orr is tricky enough to navigate without killer vines killing you on top of everything else.

Im a necro, all exotic armor, weapons, max trait in toughness 19,200 vitality and I still get dragged down by these things.

Thanks

yes we were, it just didnt go too well especially with one guy having a hard time to kill his mob.

OmniPotentes.4817:

WeI purged it with no chat. Think this is hard? Good luck with the swamp fractal.

Actually Im at Fractals 11 with 2 pink rings. Ive run the swamp fractal many times and its WAY easier to coordinate than this was with 5 people.

Yes we tried saving the last of the mob to kill at the same time. Didnt seem to work out too well. Im reading that it will be reduced to 3 torches later this month.
If thats the case, Ill wait until then to complete this. Maybe people will be more willing to run it than Ive seen so far.

It was a PUG, 4 out of 5 on TS, only 2 had done it before. It should be simple, but it wasnt. If it was SO simple it wouldnt be so hard to find a group to do it.
The mobs never spawed at the same time, and with 5 second respawn time it was impossible to coordinate.

Yeah one guy couldnt fight off the fire imps fast enough and live so yeah maybe hes got armor issues. Still think that tight of a timing kinda dumb.

Any of you leets care to earn a gold getting me through the path?

Not sure yet whether Im joining a group or making one. But Ill add you to friends nonetheless.

Just tried to do this for an hour with a group on Teamspeak to coordinate.

Seriously who thought the lighting the lanterns section was a good idea?

You have to win the lotto in perfectly timing the spawn rate for each of 5 groups with lighting the lanterns at exactly the same second.

This requirement for millisecond perfect timing needs to be fixed and make this a bit more reasonable for people to complete

Thanks

Im looking to join or form with like minded individuals a group for running dungeons

Including fractals and all other dungeons, both story and all explorable paths so people can get achievements, dungeon tokens, fractals leveling, finishing story lines.
Fast or slow, I dont care, I just want to do them all.

No representation requirements so you can keep your current guild and friends.
NA players only
Reciprocity minded people : I help you, you help me so we both accomplish our goals.
Teamspeak, Vent, or mumble available ( I can provide a 25 man teamspeak server free of charge)
Be willing to get on a voice server during runs to maximize communication and efficiency.
Be willing to learn the run and accept that wipes and failures is part of the process.
Prefer 80 level characters for runs with high level gear (exotics for level 70 dungeons and above and level 10 fractals and above)
Mature, friendly, patient attitudes preferred
No egos or elitists please.

I have 2 level 80s with full exotic armor and weapons and Im at level 11 fractals with 2 pink rings with infusion upgrades atm.
Im on SBI server but dont think that matters with cross server joining working for dungeons.

Add me to friends and PM me in game if you are interested.

Thanks and See you in game

I am also looking to finish this on one of my characters.
It is impossible to find groups for this.

Ill add you and maybe we can get something going.
Anyone else looking for this to finish story line, add us.

edit Im on a NA server so yeah I guess only NA people :/

Since we got an extra 250 cogs and I already bought the minis that I wanted after I crafted the two I got. Can I use crafted minis to get Festivoo or does it only have to be the minis from the Wintersday Chest?

I agree pretty much with what the OP said and he has some pretty interesting suggestions. I thought the visit every town meta event was a great concept and each day’s dungeon was fun. I do agree however that it got repetative and that the final was a bit lacking.

Making a game as complex as this is a ton of work and I’m sure the devs have had a whirlwind year just getting this game out the door, but I wonder if their idea machine is a bit burned out and they all might need some vaca to recharge the think tanks a bit.

To: ANET
Thank you for the Wintersday event so far. Thee dungeon in every town as Tixx makes his travels was a great idea and a lot of fun. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to make 2 minis from it. They are delightful, although the doll is kinda creepy in a Chucky sort of way…lol.
My only complaint is the timed jump puzzle and only because I’m not very coordinated or fast and timed test have always made me nervous….heh.

To people complaining about minis:

Really? Two minis isn’t enough for you? This game JUST got started a few months ago. There will most likely be MANY more winterdays and opportunity to get minis. You can also buy then in the gem store without playing the magic box lotto if you can’t wait.. Seriously, do any of you remember GW1??? Minis were NEVER a quaranteed drop (except birthdays) or able to be crafted unless you bought a collectors addition. Granted you could buy them from other players and sell the extras. Even then buying around 40 ("ot counting those you got yearly) or so minis took some time and work to get them all.

This still appears to be bugged. Id like to get armor but the Temple is ALWAYS contested and the meta event never seems to progress.

Making merchants availability dependant on major group events succeeding is a huge mistake, particularly with the fact that the area hardly has any people in it any more.

This boss is nothing short of rediculous. Does massage AOE damage from his bombs, heals, have to get him exactly under the lava and hold him there for 2-3 seconds while the lava SSSLLLOOOWWWLLLYYY drops on him.

Got to this guy the 3rd map of the level. Wiped our group numerous times. 40 minutes he was still at 100 health and we gave up. Huge waste of time doing the level and now have to start over. Its just too hard to complete.

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Check us out.

Xtreme Soldiers is a small legacy guild built playing GW1 for 7 years.
We are currently recruiting intelligent, active, adult players (21+) for PvE, WvWvW and building a PvP team.

We have several players with 80 level characters as well as newbie toons in development. We work as a team and help each other when needed.

We have some players that play almost every night barring job and family responsibilities. We are all working adults and understand the priority for jobs, family, real life responsibilities.

Teamspeak 3 a must for group events/dungeon runs, PvP & WvWvW activities
Being on/moving to Stormbluff Isle server and representing our guild is expected.
Being a smart player willing to research your character, and profession for the best builds for different situations and to learn about the game is preferable.

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See you in Tyria!

OMG that was it… thank you very much!