Guild Wars 2

I’m more interested to know which helm piece is that? i love the big horns! or is that an outfit?

Kudos for the initiative!

Spacial.1683:

I too am a relatively new player and I hope you won’t take this the wrong way, but I will strongly advise you not to get too involved in this game.

Especially, don’t spend any money on any of the expansions.

It’s actually a really good game, great graphics, some brilliant story play with sensitive and interesting NPCs. Plus some wonderful innovations to smooth things along, such as virtually eliminating the problem of kill stealing.

The big problem with it is, it has become so utterly complicated and finding any decent support or information is almost impossible. This is made all the worse by most players who know what they are doing, being so set in their ways. They push you to the Wiki or other sites that they use and understand, yet are unable to see that you don’t. If you persist too hard they get overly sensitive think you’re being rude. And that’s sad.

Crafting is a significant part of this game as it should be for all of these. While others have tended to reduce or even eliminate its importance, GW2 has maintained crafting as an important function.

Therein lies your first problem. Figuring out how to do it.

Imaging someone learning to drive who knows nothing about a car. They are told to start the ignition, press the throttle, apply the clutch and engage low gear.

What’s ignition, what’s a throttle, what’s a clutch and what’s a gear?

Here, the problem is made worse because most players are so experienced they have become a clique. None seem to understand that new players don’t know anything, not because we are stupid, but because no-one has explained what things are.

You will be repeatedly referred to the wiki. As it stands, it’s OK, but again, so complicated that you are left with more questions than answers.

Using the in-game chat is almost always ignored, inspite of claims to the contrary.

I am quite an experienced game player, WoW, Metin 2, LOTRO, Gekkeiju and others. The issues are common. Elimination of most of the lower level game play so as to rush new players to the higher levels where the profit is to be made from expansions.

GW2 is a good game, probably one of the better of the current generation of adventure games. But the technology is evolving now, more direct player interaction, VR even. Especially, more emphasis on tablets and smart phones.

This generation of adventure games is coming to a close. Most seem to be approaching their endgame stage. I know many are anticipating, winding down in 2018, Turbine for example.

We are in on the tale end here and sadly, the better programmers and game administrators have all moved on.

The reality is, the gaming companies don’t really care now.

Play by all means, but if you don’t buy the latest expansion, you won’t get access to a large area that actually has very little effect upon what is available for free.

You can easily get to lev 85 in the free areas. The only thing you won’t do is glide, which is little more than window dressing really.

I also strongly suggest you stick to the more practical characters, using heavy armour and such. The magical characters seem to be more for support and are really weak.

But as a free player you will have 3 characters. So get a decent warrior or similar, say a Char. then if you fancy it later, you can try a magical character.

We have a former WoW player here. * rollseyes *

Probably using scripts, as i’ve seen many people doing.

If you want to be mobile, dish out some good dmg, don’t want to learn too many combos, try Thief (most mobile/acrobaticish Profession ingame). A warming though: it is the squishiest class in the game, pretty much anything can kill you if you’re not paying attention and is not ready to dodge/evade, but for me, that’s exactly why i love the class so much and have been playing it since release

Yet another “plz nerf stealth cuz reasons” topic from people getting killed over and over in WvW but refuse to learn game mechanics or at least try thief for a while to be on the other side of the coin, really, big L2P to you all complaining…

Edit: The same thing happened during the short S/D meta (and look what happened), where instead of stealth, ppl complained about infinite evades… srlsy, gitgud…

So much QQ for such trivial topic….

Want to make everyone happy?
Maintain the current cap as a “soft cap” – still rewarding 10 AP/day
When you hit the 15k soft cap, you then start earning 3 AP/day until you reach a new hard cap (20k maybe? that’s roughly 4 more years to reach the hard cap)

You may say “ah, the same problem will eventually happen when ppl hit the 20k hard cap”, well, when it happens, just convert the soft cap to 20k, and increase the hard cap to 25k with 3AP/day

Rox’s Quiver, please! =)

Rox’s quiver back please! would pay 1000 gems for it >.>

Good to see that my concern led to such interesting topic to read, really enjoying to see your views on the game as a whole guys, thanks a lot!

Hello all!

I’d like to discuss with you something that has been bothering me since Ember Bay was released: Daily Quests.
With the direction the game is taking, i fear that with each new map released, more daily quests/hearts will come, and i true believe this is a poor way to “keep people playing”
I remember how painful it was in WoW to be obliged to do dailies simply because either you needed rep or the loot was simply way too good to pass, and in gw2, the second is the issue, because if i have to farm toons of petrified woods or blood rubies to get some good ascended stuff, i feel like i must to that to gear my chars – if you want to be relevant in raids or whatever, meta dictates that you must have the best gear available or GTFO.

My point is: I don’t want GW2 to become a secondary job as it happened with WoW, there are way more solutions to keep people entertained than simply throwing dailies (and new currency) at us non-stoping.

And please, don’t come with the cookie-cutter comment “yeah but you don’t need meta, play what you want and how you want”, because my point is: now, it is “fine”, but my fear is about the future and how new expansions can be affected by that.

Thanks!

Would love to see pictures of your other characters!

It does stack, for example: Incinerator MH and Quip OH, you get the footprints + flame effects on your right hand, plus the purple aura from Quip on your char (you also get bot unsheathing weapon effects)

Honestly, Mastery Points gated behind raids are no reason to complain. I reached lvl 165 1 week ago, what did i do? organised within my guild a group of 10 people (6 didn’t have Raids unlocked), we watched a 10 minutes video on how to do the scort mission and we cleared it first try in less than 20 minutes. In total, i think i have spent around 2 hours organising and asking people around if they’d like to join. Easy.
Just step up and chase whatever your goal is.

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

Biggest problem with GW2 community is that they think everything should be handed to them for free…

I see, thanks for your comments guys!
I think i will stick to the initial plan then, play GW1 stories and eventually get 30/50 with HoM!

Hello Guys!

So, i was thinking about buying GW1 and playing through it mostly for the lore/story aspect, but also for the HoM. Graphics and outdated game mechanics (no jumping etc), is not an issue for me. I’ve read many guides and 30/50 HoM looks “easy”, just takes time.

Now, i wonder about the 50/50 for the GWAMM tittle, no guides mentions how to get the remaining 20 points, so i assume this is the hardest and grindiest(?) part of the whole endeavour.

Do you guys know what must be done for the last 20 points? Would you point me to a guide or something else that could help me with this?

Thanks a lot!

As always, balance focused on pve and not pvp.

gg.

Necro minion master!
I lvled my Necro with this build and it was a lot of fun, not hard, not weak, can solo basically all open world content (minus world bosses ofc), and has a lot of build diversity if you’re not bothered to follow meta builds.
Hope this helps!

JustTrogdor.7892:

I use GW2 Efficiency. If you are logged in with your API key set up it will tell you what items you have for the legendary or any item you are crafting when you select the “Use Own Materials” option . It also tells you what you still need.

https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/calculator

Great, that helps, thanks!

Hello Guys!

I would like to check if any of you knows a similar site to this one http://gw2legendary.com where you can track the progress of your Legendary weapon craft but for HoT ones, as i’m not really a big fan of having spreadsheets with that info xD

Thanks!

On spvp, your pve gear doesn’t matter, once you enter the pvp lobby, you will be “boosted” to lvl 80, and will be able to select a build (top middle of the screen), a amulet (that pretty much means gear stats) and the runes you are running.

My advice: Enter the pvp lobby and play a bit with it, it will take you 5 minutes to figure out how the system there works.

Also, try checking http://metabattle.com for optimal builds.

Stitch.1794:

Pedroso.4603:

Stitch.1794:

One option is WvW, as it has the same reward tracks as PvP.

Another option is the repeatable achievement for completing 8 unique paths. You should be able to find 8 paths that people are willing to do, and use those to farm tokens for the other dungeons, as the achievement reward includes 150 tokens from the dungeon of your choice.

What do you mean, everytime i complete 8 different paths, i can choose 150 shards of any dungeon?

The achievement is called Dungeon Frequenter, and gives this reward: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chest_of_Dungeoneering

Perfect, Thanks!

Ophidia Moonstone.2587:

I would caution you, you have to have completed one path of the specific dungeon that has the gear you want before it unlocks in WvW or PvP. You also get achievement points for doing so. Also, they rotate when those reward tracks are available, so I would open up the tab for your reward track and see what was currently available, and when the track you want will be available next.

Sure, i have some of them almost completed from a 1 year ago before my break, i wanted to run the dungeons, but no one is doing them anymore =/

Stitch.1794:

One option is WvW, as it has the same reward tracks as PvP.

Another option is the repeatable achievement for completing 8 unique paths. You should be able to find 8 paths that people are willing to do, and use those to farm tokens for the other dungeons, as the achievement reward includes 150 tokens from the dungeon of your choice.

What do you mean, everytime i complete 8 different paths, i can choose 150 shards of any dungeon?

How to complete it now that most people simply don’t run Dungeons anymore? I know there’s pvp reward track, but i’m not into spvp anymore, is there another way to farm the gear/shards necessary to buy each piece?

Thanks!

Jethro.9376:

Ambrite Weapon and Leystone Armor also get you 1 Ascended Box each

How hard is to complete Ambrite? Leystone i’ve never seen, is it from a HoT area?

Hello Guys!

So, i want to craft a second set of ascended gear for my Ele alt, and just to save mats/time, i would like to know where i could get some parts from “for free”. For example, im almost finished with Bioluminescent collection, which gives 1 piece (gonna get either coat or pants as they are more expansive mats wise)
Could you guys help me? (Or just donate some bolts of damask, that would be great too, haha xD)

Hello,

Since 15 minutes ago i cannot log on my characters to play, i can see the char selection screen, but it simple doesnt log, nor gives an error message. Anyone else?

Edit: I’m playing with a friend and the same problem happens to him

Miku.6297:

For me I just think i enjoy playing my mesmer far more then my other characters so I rarely switch.

Right? even tough sometimes i want to switch for a “refreshing” play style, my mind and my heart are always set on my Thief main!

I’m relieved that i’m not alone on this matter! =)

Sarie.1630:

Given most things are account bound I don’t have this issue. I generally log on whichever alt I feel like playing that day.

Very few things require me to be on one particular alt.

Most of my alts are only in Exotic gear too, but if I’m playing for fun, I really don’t care.

That’s the point: i know that almost everything is account bound, but still, i can’t seem to play other characters! Maybe my love for Thief is so big that i simple don’t find it really that fun playing other classes

Hello everyone!

I’d like to discuss with you an “issue” that i have with main/alt characters:

I main Thief and have something around 2000 hours on it, on the other hand, all my other 7 characters together hardly have 250.

The problem is: i would like to spend time on other toons, specially Elementalist that i really like, however, whenever i log to play with her, i get the feeling that i’m “wasting time that i could be using to do something more productive for my main”, and also there’s gear issue, my Thief is the only one full ascended, and i don’t really want to spend the money/time to craft a second set of ascended armor.

I would like to know if i’m the only one with this “issue” and if there are others, what do you do to mitigate this feeling?

Thanks!!

Mireles Lore.5942:

Guild Missions are tonight hour after reset. Is a great time to join and meet the guild in game and on discord. Will be reviewing applications tonight and contacting those online.

For faster recruitment players can reach out to us on our discord to discuss an invite.

Unfortunately today i can’t log in =(

Really liked the Guild “atmosphere” from what i read on your website, just applied!

Thanks a lot for your post Xstein, i think i have a better idea now on how to proceed, as you said, if i set getting all mastery points as my goal i will eventually end up frustrated and could even take another break from the game because of that.
I will also follow Randulf’s advice, start LS2 and enjoy the story =)

Randulf.7614:

Don’t focus on anything. Just play through the HoT maps normally and you will unlock a significant chunk of what you need as you go along and explore. Then you can start working on specific mastery points and mastery levels.

170 indicates getting 170 mastery points from exploring and specific achievements from HoT, Core Tyria, Fractals and raids and then spending them on the mastery lines. There are different masteries for HoT and for Core Tyria/Fractals.

Grab gliding and bouncing mushrooms first in HoT and start working on the Pact Commander lines in Core Tyria first. Fractals is another one you could look at if you fractal a lot. Other than that, little else is essential and you can progress at your leaisure

I see, i think that’s the way, just play the game and things will add up eventually, the only problem is that i’m anxious as hell xDD

i think i will start from LW season 2, i have only finished the first chapter and i kinda want to understand how the events unfold until finally arriving in Maguuma forests.

Thanks a lot for your comment!

Hello guys!

I’ve just returned to GW2 after a long 1 year break due to health issues, and i’m feeling totally overwhelmed by the amount of “stuff” (mostly achievs) i have to do in order to catch up. My mastery level is 4 and i don’t quite get the idea behind it, i know that the cap is 170, this means that i have to complete 170 Achievs/Objectives to unlock all available Mastery Points? Just by looking at the Achievement page for the HoT maps, i already feel like giving up and sticking to fractals/spvp =/

Could someone shed some light on what i should focus on first? (first/easier things to go for)

Thanks!

Just as the tittle suggests, i’d like to know if we could expect a discount to purchase HoT in the near future (yeah i know, just missed one by the end of July =/). I just returned to GW2 4 days ago after 1 year break, and i noticed the struggle is real if you don’t have the expansion. However, for someone living in a third world country, 50 dollars suddenly becomes a HUGE amount of money, which unfortunatelly, i can’t afford right now for a couple of reasons.
So yeah, could we have another 50% off anytime soon?

Thanks!

Hello Guys!

I’m on my way to finish my Light of Dwayna Backpiece, and i’m only in need of a couple of Bolts of Damasks (5/15), the little gold i have is for the Icy Runestones that i’m going to buy it after i’ve collected the other materials.
So, if a kind soul (or souls) could help me with 10 bolts of Damask, i’d really appreciate it.

Server: NA

Thanks!

Gaile Gray.6029:

Pedroso.4603:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Pedroso.4603:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey all,

We had an e-mail and live discussion about this, and here’s what I learned: The best thing for you to do in cases like this is to reach out to Customer Support to discuss the situation. In many cases, they will be able to assist.

Distrust.

It contradicts what you have said here:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Edit: I should point out that most sales are not of the one-day-only type, so these cases are not the norm. Still I’m writing an e-mail outlining the suggestions. Thanks for the input, and do keep in mind that IF the team were able to do something in the future, it would not be able to make it retroactive to the current sale.

You have made it pretty clear that any measures taken will NOT be retroactive, which i can read as: if you lost the sales, you lost the sales. What now? Wait for the refund and invest my time/money into something else.

Retroactive, in this case, meant retroactive to a previous sale. Retroactive to yesterday’s items is entirely discussable!

Wow, can i have some hope then?

Sorry, Pedroso, I don’t know your exact circumstances, but I do encourage you to go ahead and get in touch.

This is the response that i got (i asked if it was possible to sell me again the 25 BL keys promotional pack and Rox’s Quiver).

“GM Pizza Daddy (Guild Wars 2 Support)

Sep 1, 07:11

Hello Gabriel
I’m sorry to say that we have no control over the 3 day lock on getting the gems from the ultimate edition. As far as the keys and quiver we can not grant items that were previously for sale. I apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any further questions or concerns feel free to contact us. Have a great day and Adventure on!

Regards,

GM Pizza Daddy
Guild Wars 2 Support Team
http://help.guildwars2.com/"

Opening a ticket right now to ask for a HoT refund.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Pedroso.4603:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey all,

We had an e-mail and live discussion about this, and here’s what I learned: The best thing for you to do in cases like this is to reach out to Customer Support to discuss the situation. In many cases, they will be able to assist.

Distrust.

It contradicts what you have said here:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Edit: I should point out that most sales are not of the one-day-only type, so these cases are not the norm. Still I’m writing an e-mail outlining the suggestions. Thanks for the input, and do keep in mind that IF the team were able to do something in the future, it would not be able to make it retroactive to the current sale.

You have made it pretty clear that any measures taken will NOT be retroactive, which i can read as: if you lost the sales, you lost the sales. What now? Wait for the refund and invest my time/money into something else.

Retroactive, in this case, meant retroactive to a previous sale. Retroactive to yesterday’s items is entirely discussable!

Wow, can i have some hope then?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey all,

We had an e-mail and live discussion about this, and here’s what I learned: The best thing for you to do in cases like this is to reach out to Customer Support to discuss the situation. In many cases, they will be able to assist.

Distrust.

It contradicts what you have said here:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Edit: I should point out that most sales are not of the one-day-only type, so these cases are not the norm. Still I’m writing an e-mail outlining the suggestions. Thanks for the input, and do keep in mind that IF the team were able to do something in the future, it would not be able to make it retroactive to the current sale.

You have made it pretty clear that any measures taken will NOT be retroactive, which i can read as: if you lost the sales, you lost the sales. What now? Wait for the refund and invest my time/money into something else.

I lost the itens that i wanted to buy from the anniversary sale because of this 72 hours delay bullkitten. Already asked for a refund and i’m not playing this game anymore.

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I have something on my mind but i won’t be able to play for at least the next 9 hours. Once i get home i will work on it and share it with you! =)

This is something that just crossed my mind:
Anet simply removed mechanics, traits, whatevs from our weapon sets and traits and then gave it to the new Elit Spec (see acro line and compare with the new traits). For me it just looks like they are pushing us to buy HoT:
“Yeah, you can play our game without buying the expansion, but what’s left without it is pure garbage, still, you are free to choose, no pressure.”

Remember guys: a game, specially a mmo does not survive on Dev’s dreams and passion alone, investors want some money flowing back, and most of the Devs decisions have to make up for that, sadly.

Let’s crowd fund a balance/Traits team for Anet. /sarcasm

Hello guys!

Firstly, i don’t know if it is the correct place to post it, but given that it concerns my Thief, i can do it =)

So, long history short: i’ve always wanted to have Incinerator on my Thief (Human male), now that i have it, i can’t fit it into any kind of set arrangements i make (for the looks, not stats ofc).
It is depressing me to the point that i think i simply wasted to much effort/time/money to build a legendary that does not fit my looks.

Do you guys have any ideas of combinations that i could use? I know i know, i should do it myself and have some “uniqueness”, but i’m completely out of ideas.

Thanks for your help!

Here you shared your traits but not gear (pvp mode) http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vYAQNAsYVl0Mp0pdPxwJ8PNR49gsj1saFoZ3DuaV5D-TgAg0CnIKSVkrITRyisFB

Do you mind sharing your equips as well?

btw, great video!

Becka Williams.4978:

The best part? We’re stuck with this. Anet’s spent far too much time and money to let it go now. So, we’re just going to have to live with it till they get around to “adjusting” it.

Or just play another game, which to me seems to be the most reasonable decision.

Alugjen Darlas.5329:

I knew it all this patch was way to good to be true , i guess they saved the worst part for today in order to hype it like always. Regarding this Scheulde World Boss system i would LOVE to ask to the maker of this system do you remember something called like this ’’’Guild Wars 2 Manifesto’’ ??.I suggest to anet devs to read it once again in case you forgot your own word’s and idea’s .I will comment later of and give my feedback once im less Pi***d.

Look at 1:30 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35BPhT-KI1E

They say “we don’t want players to grind, players don’t want to grind and that’s what we;re gonna change”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

take a deep breath

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
….

Just hilarious…

Alugjen Darlas.5329:

I knew it all this patch was way to good to be true , i guess they saved the worst part for today in order to hype it like always. Regarding this Scheulde World Boss system i would LOVE to ask to the maker of this system do you remember something called like this ’’’Guild Wars 2 Manifesto’’ ??.I suggest to anet devs to read it once again in case you forgot your own word’s and idea’s .I will comment later of and give my feedback once im less Pi***d.

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Zepidel.5349:

This was a complete waste of your time anet.

There was 2 things that needed to be in make it worthwhile.

1. Completely instanced / new instance only accessible by being in the guild, or joining from a party with a guild member in it.

2. Needed to scale to the amount of players starting at something like 20 or 40?

Small guild have no way of doing these, what the hell kind of guild has 150 people online at once anyways? That’s not a guild. Its a megachurch.

That’s what happens when you don’t ask your community for feedbacks before starting some new projects and don’t have a public test realm for them….

I’m not a specialist, but in my opinion Anet should re-think the way they do things…

Naz.2607:

AcidicVision.5498:

Were there ever any complaints that there were just too many chances in a day to kill Teq? Did anyone ever post that it would be really swell if we couldn’t get any information at all about what was going on in the world from the map? How many communities said they were a-o-k with it being more difficult to get their large guild together in one place because the zones had become a melding pot? And finally, I don’t recall seeing the public outcry for guilds to be able to kick off world bosses in a public zone where they actually have no possible way to ensure they can get enough of their own members there to organize it because there might be 20 people in the instance somewhere AFK at the bottom of a lake.

I know you all worked kitten this. And are pretty proud of its capabilities. But you have your customers here pretty much begging you to not do this because of the detriment it will be to the many different communities they make up and the things in the game they enjoy. These changes are hurting exponentially more people they are going to benefit.

Again, the fact it takes twice as much to travel and two loading screens just to know if you can go to the place you want to go or do the thing you want to do should be a GIANT indication that this is on a horribly wrong path.

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