Guild Wars 2

Exp only goes for leveling up. You’re forced into PvE cause the masteries are for PvE. Just like how you can’t train your WvW ranks outside of WvW.

I can see that it’d be nice to at least get Central Tyria masteries done in WvW, but look at it this way, each game mode has their own leveling bar. Yellow for PvE, silver for WvW, and purple for PvP.

So my game crashed during a ranked match, and when I came back, turns out everyone else on my team crashed too. Not sure about the other team, but they were all there when I came back. Our team wasn’t in the lead or anything, but the game was somewhat close.

I just got an error message saying something was preventing the game from continuing, I closed it right away and relogged so I could get back quickly.

It’d be nice if a dev could look into this. It would be my latest pvp match, ranked on my engineer. Guess I probably shouldn’t play any more matches for a bit. There needs to be a replay system or something, so we can just report the match ID.

I’d attach a screenshot, but I couldn’t get one in time before my team started coming back. Also kinda hard to get a screenshot when the game is closed.

It just doesn’t make sense to me that there is no way to reconnect to matches, especially ranked ones. So many lost games from someone dropping in the middle of the match. Doubt it was a rage, since we were ahead.

If someone leaves during the middle of a match, does it change the mmr prediction? Since it’s a 4v5, the system should favor the side with 5…

Kamui.4038:

Pibriamal.8719:

Please tell me this is a bug and not part of the feature patch. Other races have had their animations removed too.

Good to know. I hope it’s just a bug which they’ll fix because I’m losing my mind for some reason because of this. I haven’t realized how important something as simple as idle animations could be until I lost it.

Please ANet.

The characters I play are all 80s, so I can’t say much about the new leveling system, but this makes me more mad than anything else this patch. More than FGS nerf. If it’s intended, oh boy. The little stuff like this were what made the game for me.

Please tell me this is a bug and not part of the feature patch. Other races have had their animations removed too.

I can’t believe that they removed these for a feature patch. It’s a FEATURE PATCH; it’s supposed to add features not remove them.

AFKing will never be the same again.

I see your party in LFG, open world category, with a clear description of “P1, anyone welcome, not a speed run”. I think why not and takethe gamble. Turns out the dungeon is CoE.

I go in, try to joke around and talk with you guys, but not much is said. So I take a close look at your guildie thief buddy, with his fancy “Dungeon Master” title and dual pistols. I let out a little chuckle. A pug warrior comes in, sees that you are one too, and pings out her banner. No response from you, so she just slots one banner. A ranger comes in to finish the party and we start.

Every boss is almost a wipe, with your thief guildmate standing far away from us and going pew-pew, but it’s okay. It’s a casual run. No one is mad, no one is upset. We’re all laughing and having a decent time. The another warrior is calmly explaining what to do next to the ranger. The ranger listens and asks why he should pick up my ice bow. We talk through things. But nothing ever from you guys. Anything we ask you is met with silence.

We get to the last fight with Subject Alpha. We try to stack by the boxes, but the two of you decide to stand and range from opposite corners. The warrior explains that by staying close to each other, our AoEs will break anyone caught in a crystal. Halfway through her explanation, she’s gone. Instantly kicked by you two. Our ranger is appalled. He’s obviously here to learn from a casual run, and now his teacher is gone. And he’s gone too. And then me. All of us kicked at the end. After spending over an hour with you guys, you kick the pugs that carry you.

TL;DR: Joined a casual run, laid back, patiently carried with a pug, both of us got kicked by the two guildies at the end.

Never doing a run with the description “anyone welcome” again, casuals are worse than “elitists” at kicking. At least elitists have a clear guideline on kicking in their description. Also, “Dungeon Master” is a worthless title, anyone with it should feel bad.

You can just open LFG and find a taxi, or make a group looking for a taxi. Whenever I’m in a t4 shard, I always try to taxi pugs in using LFG.

Not the best system, but it works. And it’s not that big of a deal. I know they’ve been improving the megaserver sorting system behind the scenes, so it won’t be long until we get priority for higher tier maps.

Ideally, every map should be able to get t4, but that’s not gonna happen considering the majority of players. People don’t like to work hard in this game. So you’re gonna have to find other players that do want to work.

This is why we have tooltip fixes every patch. People complain about them and take them for granted, but they’re important.

Wasn’t in the patch notes, but Cleric’s gear is no longer the most useless, being replaced by Nomad’s.

Wasn’t there a thread earlier about someone making a new account to test the leaderboards? They went like 1-11 and got in the top 5. Leaderboards are absolutely broken.

We JUST got a Living World patch this week and you’re already complaining? If it’s not enough for you, nothing is stopping you from playing other games. Or maybe go outside. Make your own Living World.

Nothing wrong with playing GW2 and AA at the same time. Is there some law that forbids that?

As someone that plays a lot of Elementalist, whose number one concern is to make sure my might stacks don’t get ripped, I agree.

Boon ripping is something only a few classes can do. I think every class should have some way to get a form of enemy boon control. However, it should be a BIG ability, not something tacked onto an AA (ahem, mesmers). It should be something that takes some tactical planning and coordination. Maybe even make it a blast finisher.

That being said, I hate it when stability gets ripped. At least, I just hate it on Skyhammer. More so when it’s a mesmer who just hit AA 3 times, and then 4 twice. IMO boon ripping/corrupting Stability should not remove it, but half it’s remaining duration instead. Stability is too big of a boon to be thrown away like that. You can just make it so certain CC abilities can go through stability. Similar in Dota, if you compare stability to BKB. You can’t purge BKB (you can purge Omni’s repel, which a spell version of BKB), but some ults go through BKB.

Feelm.1938:

FearedbytheGods.8617:

This thread looks more like the response from some who miss the boss fights that are a dps sponge.

I’m glad ANet are offering some interesting mechanics. I for one enjoyed the fight and didn’t find it overly challenging.

There’s still plenty of world bosses you can afk auto-attack if that’s your thing, otherwise L2P.

He’s still a sponge for those of us who aren’t lolzerk hugedps classes. My necro has a choice of close range axe or melee daggers. This guy zips around platforms, dropping these massive bombs which can’t be dodged on the smaller ones and my axe can’t always be in range of him from the middle.

Can we fix the zerker meta yet?

Slot Lich Form, use it, kill him.

Easy. Or just continue to ignore the tools you have and complain about how other people have it easier because they choose to change their builds for different content.

I wouldn’t talk crap about her, that story is just a cover up. Just wait and see, she’ll turn out to be a bandit like the rest of the townsfolk. She’ll stab you while you’re crying over her sob story.

Didn’t seem like that for me. Taimi and Braham kicked kitten for me while I sat back. And Rox would put down a Healing Spring for me whenever I got low.

If you’re finding the enemies stick on you too much, then kite and run away. Just like aggro managing anywhere else in the game.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Zorby.8236:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

1) Ranger is not much of a might-stacking class so Strength runes aren’t terribly helpful for them.

And? Can still use Scholar/Ranger…

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

So basically what I’m saying is that the 10-12% party DPS boost that a FS/Spotter ranger gives isn’t worth suffering the personal DPS loss. Just to keep things really simple, a 4war/1ele group would output 53k sustained DPS (15k + 9.5k x 4) versus a 4war/1ran group outputting 50.5k (10.5k x 4 + 8.5k). And that’s assuming 100% uptime on the Frost Spirit and the ranger’s pet.

3War/1Ran/1Ele beats 4War/1Ele though. Sure, Rangers aren’t in the most optimal comps, but there are worse comps not including Ranger as well.

But it loses to 3war/2ele. That’s the point, switching the ranger for an ele (or any other useful class in the given context) leads to an overall boost in damage. That’s compared to the other two “DPS support” classes (warrior and engineer) who have a much better ratio of damage gained versus damage lost.

And 3war/2ele loses to 2ele/war/ran/guard. Why would you switch a ranger in for an ele when you can get rid of an extra warrior?

Please continue to keep speaking for me.

You read the forums, and see a lot of complaints correct? This is called the vocal minority. Most of the people don’t mind the characters, and therefore are less likely to come on the forums and talk about them. Of course you get the occasional praise thread, but most of the time the only people talking are the ones that are upset.

lawfan.7095:

Pibriamal.8719:

Leo Paul.1659:

This is one of the “new” battle mechanics that they absolutely have to refine. It’s very clunky to fight using those crystals. So annoying.

Pretty sure everyone has said this, I know I did, but I’ll say it again.

You. Do. Not. Need. The. Crystals. At. All.

That seems to have changed. You 100% need them now. I tried repeating the story and spent 10 minutes without getting one blow to hit when he went into his shield.

Let me rephrase that. You do not need the crystals to jump to him at all. You always needed to grab the sun crystal to break through his shield. I was saying that in response to the complaints about the “need” to platform to fight him.

Can’t wait til they add content that requires jump-dodging.

For those that don’t know, when you jump dodge, you ignore movement modifiers like cripple and chill, so you roll a little farther. Downside is it messes up your invincibility frames in the air, so it’s possible for you to get immobilized/CCed in air and that really sucks. Being stuck in the air is like one of the worst things in the game.

You can easily test this in PvP, have a buddy chill you and try both dodges. And then have a warrior use Pin Down on you while jump dodging.

The more you post on the forums, the unluckier your account becomes.

Shardelyss.4807:

I wouldn’t call this a Personal Story. This is a Living Story event masquerading in the Personal Story tab, but Personal Story it ain’t.

If I had to rate it as a Living Story it gets a 3/5 stars. I penalized two stars for it having too much of a focus on Kas – 1 and making her too important over the remaining cast -1. I know it’s a first intro into the new story, but a mesmer who can blink over chasms when the player mesmer can’t… is over powered. (Edited for clarification, I refer to Living story as the parts in which you do the instanced missions – I am not including the map with the other events – Just the story part of living story – if that makes sense).

If I had to rate it as a Personal Story it would get 0/5 stars for failing to have

a. voiced content for the character
b. a story that involves your character (not just click text with no choice)
c. invests you as an important force of nature – you killed a dragon!
d. characters that actually recognize you and don’t just reference you as an aside like the last event where Kiel calls you their leader in an off handed manner and YET never actually takes the time to say anything more about you like she does for the others.
(lots of games include the player character name in the text even if they don’t include it in the speech)
e. content that doesn’t just ignore that you are there and actually reacts to your actions

It lost one star for each of those.

So for me this isn’t a personal story at all, but a Living Story event in which my poor character does the ox load of the work and gets no credit for it again.

The NPCs are supposed to be more powerful than our characters. Our characters actually aren’t very strong. We’re not OP heroes, the NPCs are. Kasmeer portalling across gaps, Marj summoning a bone bridge, Taimi blowing the kitten out of trash mobs, Rox not being a Bearbow ranger, it’s supposed to be that way.

And they do acknowledge you. They talk about you being the pact commander and taking down Zhaitan. Taimi even changes her dialouge if you’re an Asura or an Engineer. They become a little racist and harsh to you on a Sylvari character.

You don’t even need to jump for the bare minimum of this content. You can get through without platforming. Going through the story takes minimal effort.

For the achievements, yes, you need to platform. Sure, it can be hard. But it’s for an achievement. I’m glad that achievements actually mean something now. Or at least more people are complaining. Makes me feel more like a special snowflake.

Haven’t found a thread for this, but merge it if needed, kind moderator.

Let’s talk about the feature that was added this patch, the Story Journal. It’s great, but it needs some work.

What the journal allows us to do, is the ability to replay any chapter of a story that we have unlocked. That little annoying green star in the top right corner? We can now change what it says.

However, it has some flaws. Bugs aside, I want to discuss the feature/UI itself. When you choose to replay a chapter, I’m a little disappointed that we can’t choose which part of the chapter. It’s an all or nothing thing right now. Another little nuisance is that the journal “hides” the story text. As you go through the chapter, you keep a little diary that you can read later and remember what happened (which is well done, I see the feedback about having info/lore accessible ingame really helped out). However, during the replay, you don’t get to see all of it. It’s like your writing it again.

Any other things that can be said about this? Suggestions? I’d write a little more detailed post, but I’m on my phone.

Charming Rogue.8071:

I like the holes

I like them too, but I would still like an option to cover them up when I don’t want my character to have her hips out in the open. There’s a time for sexy, and then there are times for not so sexy.

Haven’t seen a thread about this, so I thought I’d make one. In Prosperity, we can see our old friend (if you were a human street rat) Riot Alice. For those that don’t remember, Alice was part of a bandit gang, and you talked her out of it. Her father died during the Great Collapse, and she’s been skeptical of the Shining Blade’s claim that there were no casualties.

Her dialogue in the bar involves her talking about sending copper to the bandits in the north. What do you guys think? Will she be part of this story? We had Lord Faren (human noble friend) make an appearance in Season 1 with his wonderful undergarments. I don’t think it’s out of the picture to involve another human character from the personal story.

You can always find a taxi in LFG to a busier shard.

The old Attack stat was useless. It was never used in damage calculations. It was basically Power + Weapon Strength. So if you liked to be around 3000 Attack, then you should shoot for 2000-2200 Power.

runeblade.7514:

Pibriamal.8719:

Both are in higher level zones. Owls are in Snowden Drifts in the SE corner, and for the salamander drake (the fire one I assume) are in Blazeridge Steppes, there’s a little canyon full of them south of a river if I remember correctly. Owls may be easier to get, as for the drakes, you’ll probably die before you get to them.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_pet_locations

Drakes being hard to get is certainly false.

You just need to leave from Plain of Ashford and stay on the road to avoid mobs to get there. The drakes attack are very slow so it shouldn’t be hard to dodge them.

Can you get there safely? Can’t remember if that’s the zone where the flame legion kinda messes up the roads. Or maybe that’s Fireheart.

Either way, take a buddy.

As for “non-Japanese” weaponry, sure the Chinese ring-pommel would be nice. But the origin doesn’t really matter. It’s pretty much the same in design. We Asians love to copy each other (and then try to claim that we did it first). Either way, in game it’ll end up being Canthan. With the game in China, I’m sure you can expect more Asian-influenced items coming up. Maybe the Delaqua family will be our link to Cantha in the future.

You have 5 slots for free, why not try a few out? I don’t know what kind of playstyle you like. If you like pet classes, Ranger/Necro are a good choice. If you like melee, Ranger/Warrior/Guardian/Thief. If you like to dance around and push buttons, go Mesmer/Elementalist/Engineer.

…If you want to be an “archer”, go warrior. Not ranger. Trust me, you’ll make more friends.

My first class was an Elementalist, didn’t like it, so I deleted it and made a Guardian. Now two years later, I made another Elementalist and it’s my main now.

Asmodeus.5782:

This story has nothing to do with Trashearne, luckily.

You don’t know for sure. What if we got to kill him?

Edit: On topic, personal story goes the way you’d think it does. You’re pretty much at the end. In fact, you can play the end (Arah Story mode) before you even get there in your storyline. The living story only mentions your accomplishments, but nothing major. Though some characters do react to your profession/race, so it wouldn’t be too far out of the picture for them to say things about your choices.

Both are in higher level zones. Owls are in Snowden Drifts in the SE corner, and for the salamander drake (the fire one I assume) are in Blazeridge Steppes, there’s a little canyon full of them south of a river if I remember correctly. Owls may be easier to get, as for the drakes, you’ll probably die before you get to them.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_pet_locations

Yeah, the holes are just…weird. It’d be nice if there was an option to cover up skin with like some sort of chainmail or some material. The rest of the female design is good.

I guess it would depend on your crit chance. But I’d say the crit damage because you can easily get 100 power from might stacks. Unless you have like some disgustingly low crit chance like 5%.

That “overrated Katana” is actually an odachi, if you want to be authentic. Japan is part of East Asia too. Just cause it’s Japanese doesn’t mean it’s only for weeaboos. And Belinda’s sword is actually very well designed.

Anyone notice how our lovely NPCs actually helped and did work? Kasmeer is OP, she can create portals across gaps. Taimi and Braham wrecked face in combat. Rox actually put down a Healing Spring so I could blast it for heals.

Not only that, but we split the group up for a little bit. One part we’re with Kas/Marj, and then the next story we’re with the others. Could it be possible that later on in the story, we get to choose who comes with us for a mission? And go even further and say that if we pick Kasmeer, then the mission will involve more platforming because of portals. Or if we choose Braham, the mission is the same, but you go a different route and brute force your way in.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Pibriamal.8719:

Scholar and Pirate/Ogre are the most popular replacements, Hoelbrak too.

Doesn’t matter, the rune is still godlike and I’m keeping it on my ele. The nerf to the 4th bonus was nothing, I can stack so much might anyway. The 6th bonus 2% damage nerf is whatever, brings it in line with Rage runes, so I’m fine with that.

People are panicking because they saw nerf and thought it was useless now. Which is kind of good, because now they’re affordable. In fact, I’m willing to say our good friend John Smith was in charge of balancing these runes, just to bring them down in price without over nerfing them. :P

John is in charge of the economy, not balancing powers of runes. The drop in price is a result of the balance fix.

You missed the joke…

Really, the nerf was just so people panic and flood the market so they’re affordable now. Still a good rune set.

I don’t think your profession/build is the problem here…

Scholar and Pirate/Ogre are the most popular replacements, Hoelbrak too.

Doesn’t matter, the rune is still godlike and I’m keeping it on my ele. The nerf to the 4th bonus was nothing, I can stack so much might anyway. The 6th bonus 2% damage nerf is whatever, brings it in line with Rage runes, so I’m fine with that.

People are panicking because they saw nerf and thought it was useless now. Which is kind of good, because now they’re affordable. In fact, I’m willing to say our good friend John Smith was in charge of balancing these runes, just to bring them down in price without over nerfing them. :P

This isn’t Reddit, but sounds like a good idea.

Leo Paul.1659:

This is one of the “new” battle mechanics that they absolutely have to refine. It’s very clunky to fight using those crystals. So annoying.

Pretty sure everyone has said this, I know I did, but I’ll say it again.

You. Do. Not. Need. The. Crystals. At. All.

How does this favor Warriors? You don’t have any burst skills with aspects lol. If I remember correctly, even Rangers get their pets stowed. Your combat is supposed to be limited with the aspects.

Time limit is because they’re broken and weak. Adds another level of gameplay. And you don’t even need the aspects to fight the sylvari. You can just walk up the ramp and smack his salad face in.

You don’t have to jump at all. There’s a ramp you can walk up. Just ignore the worms and go kill him. Look around before you think you’re stuck.

Guhracie.3419:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

And why does everyone expect some singularly HUGE update when it’s a biweekly series of updates?

Because it’s been months since S1 ended, and not 2 weeks?

So what? Did you pay for an expansion or something? So entitled. This was a Living Story patch, not a Feature patch. No one said anything about balance changes, new classes/race, etc.

And tooltip fixes are very important. One thing this game lacks is user-friendly fast information. You highlight a skill in Dota 2, you get a bunch of useful crap. You hold alt and get even more useful crap. That’s good. GW2 needs more of that.

Does it have to be an actual hard stun, or does any CC work? What about Defiance?

LFG “speed” run XP pls | NOMAD’S GEAR only

Gonna do that in a week or so after everyone’s had a chance to get some. I’ll go full zerk and see if they can keep my health topped off. It’ll be a great experience.

Why don’t you log in and find out for yourself? They kept it spoiler free for a reason.

MastaNeenja.1537:

They are running out of stat combos aren’t they? This stat combo might be awesome for a bunker that simply wants to hold a point and deal no damage but it would be worthless in PVE, but you have to go to PVE to get it, makes sense from the stand point that they want players to spend more time grinding in one mode of game play so they can get stats for another.

You don’t get your sPvP stats from PvE. Unless you’re talking about WvW, but what points are you bunkering there? It’ll have its uses in WvW frontline zerging for sure.