Guild Wars 2

I really enjoyed the visual impact of the boss, it was great to see this dragon back as it was one of my favourites from the start of the game and it felt like an utterly wasted dragon to just be in the initial introduction for character creation… So I am glad it is back.

The fight itself, I died a couple times, it wasn’t that I “didn’t know to dodge”, it is just unfortunate circumstances where I would be dodging one AOE and then 3 more would popup in the direction I was running and they hit me immediately, a series of events that would practically 1 shot me (The slimes were doing 5k a pop, so 3-4 of them I’d be dead). Then if you get too close to the vines they knock back and that stalls you for a couple seconds, meaning if AOE is shot at you when that happens, it is likely you will die.

I eventually noticed the pattern and it became easier, the problem I had is it was frustratingly, irritatingly repetitive. I got the head dragon to 50% when he repeated the cycle, then it felt like it was 30%…20%..10% 5%…2% when it kept repeating the cycle, by 5% I was annoyed to have to do all the same crap again and when he went back at 2% and I had to kill the 3 vines AGAIN!, I was not enjoying the fight one bit. It was tedious by then.

Overall, not a bad fight. I didn’t like that it was solo (no AI) (meant when I went down, I pretty much gave up n let myself die), though if friends was with me that would of solved that. I didn’t like the repetitive nature.

I’m giving this a no, I cannot complete Zhaitan on any more characters as no one wants to help, so its stuck on my list forever.

NO THANKS to forced group content.

I tried to go an hour early today, unfortunately, not enough people (that was the common complaint in the /shout) and we ultimately failed getting him to around 95% and all turrents broken and overrun by enemies and champions.

I am on a EU server, I can only play during a specific window time 5pm to 11pm GMT. Which would be about 12-5pm EST, I don’t know how I would fair on a NA server but I am beginning to loose hope on this guy, I’ve been 0/15+

A friend of mine in the US (on a us server) says he kills it often, and doesn’t have to be early, he just follows that countdown list. So I feel unlucky

Thanks for the advice, going to try get there early tomorrow

Mac.3872:

Good players, the ones who know the fight will turn up in sparkfly fen one hour before the fight starts.

If you turn up with like ten minutes to go you will be on a server with the slackers.

The key is still to turn up early.

I did not know this, so it is best to turn up early and get in with the dedicated otherwise you will end up in an overflow mega server with people who are usually not good? Is that the trend for this fight.

I might have to try this on the next spawn.

I returned to the game when Season 2 of the LS started and I knew there were some changes to this boss during a patch, now I am wondering if its better or worse?

I’ve never seen this guy die since I’ve been back, I’ve never seen him below 90% for that matter, I usually head there at least once a day its up. It usually ends up with a lot of people stood around talking about what to do, the fight starts, everyone has a huge kitten fest and leaves after a few minutes. Quite exciting.

Is this event even doable?

A lot of people tell me if it’s not going down within first few minutes, it’s not going down at all, so thats why people leave, others say the rewards are just not worth the time at all.

I found this fight absolutely frustrating and not fun at all, completely ruined the experience for me. The annoyance came about by having the 2 NPC’s bug and the minions constantly dying and I couldnt take down the dogs fast enough.

What I had to do in the end was kill all the 3 vines, as they don’t respawn, and then use “Save Yourself” speed boost to get the dog to the boss faster.

I ended up dying 3-4 times more after that due to so much stupidity going on in that fight.

Did not enjoy it 1 bit.

This buggy crap is starting to really frustrate me -.- the whole fight is complete nonsense.

One of the reasons I am barely playing and get bored easily, is because I’ve been in the same gear since launch, there isn’t anything else I can change into that looks different unless I buy from store, and even then there are like 2 pieces of decent looking gear for Heavy.

GW2 imo is one of the worst when it comes to design, if you look at say FFXIV, it gets patches every 3 months and they bring content for sooo many classes and has so much variety, a single class has almost 250 body pieces, and out of those about 70 of them are unique models, there is a lot of customization.

Sahfur.5612:

aaron.7850:

Awbee.8405:

aaron.7850:

But Permanent SAB is not the answer, 30 days is plenty.

Would 30 days of WvW be plenty?
Would 30 days of Fractals be plenty?
What about the people who have no time to play this month?

Those were designed with the word “permanence” in mind, SAB wasnt and if they wanted to make it permanent they would have to redesign a proper reward system, which I dont think they will soon. If anything and Arenanet agrees to make it permanent, they will take it off after the 30 days and bring it back again in a few months when they have more weapon skins ready, more zones and a redesigned reward system.

If you read the reddit feed the original intent of the creator John Foreman was for this to be permanent but his superiors told him it would be temporary, which saddened him.

So yes, it was designed with permanence in mind.

Super kitten I get it, it doesnt fit with the whole game, and that is what makes it SO special… I at least want it finished.

The tongue thing is the only thing that bothers me cuse you cant even dodge it at all XD

Another thing that frustrates the living kittening kitten out of me is how bad targeting is on the frog, it continuously drops target and wont select ruby many of the times. The toads at back dont help but i think thats done on purpose.

Why so serious?

me tooo!! all friends who quit came back just to do this!

Why you arguing about shaving a few minutes ? x.x

I dont mind them but some of them are pretty dumb, I am glad its 1 tier, I was doing the revive 10 and if that went to tier 3 and i had to revive like 30+ i’d of been so kitten

But what annoys me is the 1 Laurel lol feels like a grind to me to obtain the best gear, which is what i thought GW2 was supposed to not be about. Oh well will still do it.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Perhaps I’m missing something here, but why would having a rich orichalcum vein in Southsun Cove be a bad thing exactly? I don’t understand. There are other rich veins of ore scattered around the world that people mine regularly, or did those all get removed, too?

The only other ones are in WvW which you cant really camp because you cant log out there, you would need to enter WvW and travel to the node each time. If your server owns that area, easy, if not, can be tricky as some like to camp guard it and the 2 other servers you’re fighting against are also going for it meaning you don’t have much time to mine.

This one people just took up alt 80’s and left it there. I did it, had several 80’s logged there and would log in every 24hrs and mine, getting almost 150 ore a day. I can see why it had to be removed but compared to other means of gaining gold, it wasnt exactly one of the top methods, so it seems it was just done to stop this kind of attitude to farming it.

Jzl.8715:

Oh math, awesome, while we are at it, let’s put together all that we know:

Anet has sold 3million copies, but, let’s just assume that they are sold at 60 bucks, which is an optimistic estimate, since a lot of then are probably bought when the game in on discount and relative numbers for collector/deluxe editions are quite low. That bring us to 180 million dollars.

Now according to credible source there are just over 300 employees at Anet currently, that. Someone assumed a salary of about $3000/month this is simply can’t be true. Because if that is the case, there wouldn’t be a GW2 for us because no one will be working for Anet since that is less than half of the average salary of IT industry, unless they are constantly bribed with free cookies everyday. So based on a $6000 monthly salary and 300 employees, a total of 21.6 million of salary expense needed per year. 5 year development will total 108million dollars (just as a comparison, SWOTOR is said to have spent 200million, which is considered a lot), that only left us with only 72 million. Divide it by that by 21 million, we are looking 3.428571429 years of sustainable business! SHOCKING!!! and that’s as conservative a guestimate as it gets, not including facility fees, NcSoft cut, marketing, free pizza/coffee/cookies and pingpong ball replacements!! So in reality, we’re looking at much less than 3 years before money runs out, and of course, we don’t want that to hapkitteno, now, we love our game, what can be done? This is where you come in! Buy gems, coax your friends to buy the game, and then make them buy more gems! Sale your jewelry, sale your car/house/ and pet to support our game!

What are you still waiting for?

Go!

Nao!!!!

Lot of cool figures, but they receive a lot in gems, soon transfers. I am probably in a small group but I end up spending about £50-60 a month which is nearly $100, the game also cost me £60 which is nearly $100, lot more than US guys. The deluxe is $65 on the official site. Which is $104 in USD. So they make a lot more in some regions.

Then all the collectors, I bought deluxe for the digital download and then i bought collectors separately, so bought game twice XD. All in pounds.

Can’t believe ya’ll complaining, this is a great new feature.

If you want to play with EU then just transfer to EU, and vice-versa. I understand why it is not being done, when you transfer your data is moved completely, guesting it is not, it’s like overflow servers, non of your data moves.

Besides people exploit the heck out of world transfer, going to worlds with good WvW standing or ones with less people in specific farming spots or that have constant farm maps. So it’s good they monetize on these issues.

I was doing the story mission “The Steel Tide” with a friend, it is near a base with a waypoint.

I died and I opened map and saw that way point was inside the mission radius but when I clicked it, it removed me from the event, losing all my progress.

Very frustrating.

You used to be able to preview gear even if it did not fit your profession, you are no longer able to do this. Even the gear in the Auction House will not work.

For example, a Ranger cannot preview light or heavy armor.

lol you used a time converter?

anywho, yeh it sucks.

Reward is a Joke
Zhaitan is a Joke.
Whole end is a Joke.

Absolutely disappointed, completely and utter garbage.

GG Anet, Trolled the story.

I loved my thief ever since i realized I cant go in head first. Everything changed that day.

Everytime things get hectic such as a world boss in GW2 eventually the sound cuts out to a full on single tone just going from quiet to loud to quiet to loud and so on, it is EXTREMELY loud and gave me a headache when I had headphones on.

It pretty much 50% of time happens during dragon fights, i’ve tried changing so many settings in the options but nothing works.

I use onboard MSI sound all drives up to date.

You don’t need Vitality at all, you wont get enough to survive pretty much anything at Caps and in WvW its a joke.

You are FAR better going full out Crit Damage over Vitality, that extra 400-500dmg a crit will do FAR better than whatever couple thousand health will get you.

I have a 52% Crit Rate with 80% Crit Damage, I can do over 5k dmg in WvW/PvE (depending on class/champ/elite/etc) for my Heartseekers, when you can spam 3-4 of them when a person is below 50% they’re dead by a thief.

If you struggle then I guess go get VIT but 13k HP is plenty more than I need to survive.

For weapons, whatever you feel like, I always keep a Dagger/Dagger combo as I have 2 fantastic daggers, I think switch between Bow or Pistol/Dagger depending on the activity.

nitowa.1486:

Von Schnabel.3815:

Well, this should pretty much sum it up
http://i.imgur.com/3MYgk.png

10% sales cut

You pay the sales tax the moment you hit Sell, it should not add another tax on collecting profits.

They do announce them, you dont read it.

Not to mention it was a Build not a server restart, all you had to do was quickly logout and in to get it.

Shatterer does not take 40 mins lol maybe about 5-10?

It was likely direct insult language as opposed to saying “F- I just died”.

I’ve had plenty of rare materials, like Crystals and Orbs and such, the Rare is anything that is of Rare (Yellow colored item).

Whether you bother using them or not is up to you, I do it by item, if its an 80 blue i might do it, some pieces i hardly ever do it and use basic. If it has a good sigil on but i dont care for loss i might use a good one, if its a sigil i really want i ensure i use black trading or transmute it.

Seems the classes that can take a lot of hits and not die so easily are proving to be quite popular lol.

I loved Thief which was my first 80. I’ve taken Ranger up but I am not liken it at all, I might leave it where it is. I also took up Elementalist but it only is fun in Groups.

Trying Mesmer now to see how that goes then maybe Warrior or Engineer as those seem to be popular.

Salt.4621:

nesh.7234:

Salt.4621:

This is why having a global Auction House is a poor idea. There are simply ‘too many’ players posting items, materials, etc. There are a lot of items selling at vendor prices, so crafting and making money is pointless. Could anyone point out the benefit of having just one Auction House across all servers? Because I fail to see what that benefit is.

Guesting — without global TP it will make a mess, restricting trades between players will be a must and lots of other restrictions to prevent buying/selling stuff from one server on another.

Better supply? It works nicely in STO IMHO.

Don’t forget that we are talking of the week old game, TP will stabilize when people spread out and start spending more, now even if i see something I want on TP I mostly save gold as I’ll need it for latter.

Yes but there is a difference between ‘better supply’ and ‘oversupply’, as you said, we’ll see how it pans out. I’d still prefer an Auction House for each server though, guesting or not. I’d also wager that the AH drama’s they’ve had wouldn’t be as great if it were dedicated to one server.

I was thinking about this, there are some very excotic gear I can make relatively easy right now and I garauntee i’d be the only one on my server doing it cuse there is usually only about 5 of them ever up at a time, but if i was just me on my server doing it, while I would control that item, i’d have a much lesser audience that would buy it, which means im loosing so much there.

There are pros and cons for both but I much prefer the huge audience and the fast ability to sell stuff relatively quickly because of that massive audience than to way for to sell because of the tiny audience even if i am the only seller.

It helps crafters a lot out and ensures not to much money is pounded to one smart guy.

ZionNow.2138:

Premium.4075:

If you knew anything about how GW2 handles its armor stats, you’d see that its really not worth it at all and you can get identical gear in other means.

I know how GW2 handles things. And I’ll correct that.

It’s a skin you can’t get any other way. I’m still baffled by what makes the armor suddenly worthless since it has no better stats. At the end of the day, wether or not the armor gives better stats, it shows you spent a lot of time and effort in the dungeons. It must just be me but I really can’t see what makes it different from for example WoW tier raid gear.

the prime reason why I ever got WoW top tier armor or GW1 prestige armor is because I saw it in a city and thought “I want that”. I’ve never really given that much of a crap about the better stats (except of course, when I needed it to do the “next step”), for it was always about being one of the few who had it. This game makes it hard to have it, so I approve and I definately feel it makes the armor worth something

Dont play wow so I cant really compare against that, but personally I wouldnt go through the “stress” of something when I can get it elsewhere. Now if you’re all for looks thats great, it is a great reward for YOU but not for ME so when I said its not worthwhile I was obviously stating MY opinion which is still correct because I believe it is not worthwhile, and it seems so does a few others. The rewards in games can be cool looking things or very beneficial things.

Take Legendaries for example, they serve no purpose other than to look cool and those that get them, good on them but it will provide zero benefit to you other than looking good. The amount of time and effort and sometimes expense to get one to me, is not worth it because I dont care much for a flashy sword with particle effects when its just as good as my Excotic.

Dont misunderstand me for saying Dungeon gear is a waste, I am saying its not worthwhile (to some like me and other people in this thread). You may like looks and that is a reward, I am not.

ZionNow.2138:

ShRNA.4376:

Difficult content is fine. But the reward needs to worth the hassle, which is not case at the moment.

It’s the only way to get dungeon armor/weapons. If you do them you’ll have that armor. That’s worth something.

If you knew anything about how GW2 handles its armor stats, you’d see that its really not worth it at all and you can get identical gear in other means.

Please fix it -_- either its broken or not showing on stats, i haven’t had the time to test it nore am I willing to use parsers.

Crafting will net you 10 levels, so you can get an 80 if you max out all crafts. But that is an expensive way to level.

You can get 10 levels for less than 1gold if you follow the recent 0-400 guide, but i recommend saying that for like 50+. Jewelery is also easy one.

Outside of that if you dont craft then you do everything in a map, events are best, find some you can port between really fast while its cheap (as at high level porting is very expensive). There are a few events that you can chain to get 40-80 in about 15hrs playtime

Only solution I have found is to logout and back in and hope you get on overflow. As it worked there.

Hello,

Server: Blackgate
Type: NON overflow

The skill point challenge “Ethereal Vanguard Monument” for “Defeat Captain Mattox and his Ethereal Vanguard” is bugged with 2/3 kills and the 3rd one no where.

Everyone is just activating it over and over with no sign of this third Vanguard.

Cheers

The guild Panel seems broke today after maint.

It is showing no clan tag [] and showing missing data all over for the 1st guild. Also says I am the only one in my guild. Other members reporting same.

Considering how rare this is and how I have only seen one up for almost 80 gold on my server, I don’t think you’re going to have people just handing out the info easily haha.

I dont even buy any of it, i find it a bit of a scam that its limited in so many ways, not to mention this whole “light/medium/heavy” crap means I am completely locked out of some of the armor and dont even have the option to buy as i cant use.

They would make way more money from me if i could just buy the gear and wear it like town clothes…

Shadow.6018:

Azkar.6018:

Yaos.4528:

Originally I was filling buy orders, but I forgot there’s a million or two people looking through the Trading Post and switched to sell orders and every highly traded commodity sells very quickly.

Agree 100%. I almost never blindly fill buy-orders or sell-orders, when I’m using the TP. You can almost always put in a custom order, and make some extra coin. I’ve been finding they’re filled before I have a chance to switch over to the pick-up tab.

Care to elaborate on that a bit?

How is putting in a custom sell or buy order better?

I mean…..if the lowest copper ore is selling for 20c…..why would I place anything lower or higher? Any lower and I lose out, any higher and I dont sell.

Ditto for buying, although there I can see putting in a buy order for a lower amount than the lowest selling one and hoping someone bites.

You put in order for buy 15 and then u sell for 22 or 23, they go so fast with so much demand it goes up and down so rapidly, it will never stay 20c flat for long.

Theres no Right click menu anymore when i click a name in chat or when I go to Contacts, so i cant invite them that way or report/block people.

I bought 5 Globs of Ectroplasm, didnt receive, at first i thought I was going crazy and ignored it until i noticed the gold gone.

As title says, for example I have the craft “Opal Mithril Amulet”, the first item is “Opal Crystal” when right clicking gives no option to search, but it is on the trading post and can be bought there.

Any item that is not normal doesn’t seem to give me the option, but it can be bought from trading post.